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lifejustgotawkward · 6 years ago

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2018) - #150: Angel Face (1953) - dir. Otto Preminger

I caught the noir-esque drama Angel Face on TCM recently and despite “Noir Alley” host Eddie Muller’s insistence that the film is a masterpiece, I was seriously disappointed. Contrary to what one might expect from lead actress Jean Simmons as the title “angel face,” Diane Tremayne - the automatic assumption that the character must be a glamorous femme fatale with only the coldest, most evil of intentions towards her mark, Robert Mitchum’s Frank Jessup - instead I found that Diane was a pitiable figure. The story is complicated, but this clearly is obviously the victim of mental illness and it is unclear as to whether her incestuous feelings for her father, Charles (Herbert Marshall), were one-sided or, in fact, realized in actuality.

When we are introduced to ambulance driver Frank Jessup at the beginning of the film, he is answering a call at the Tremayne house, where Catherine Tremayne is being treated for near-fatal carbon monoxide poisoning from the gas heating system in her bedroom. Shortly after administering medical help to Mrs. Tremayne, Frank meets her stepdaughter, Diane, in the living room. (She is playing a haunting melody on the family piano; externally, this music and the rest of the film’s score was composed by the great Dimitri Tiomkin.) Unsurprisingly for 1953, Frank tries to calm down the hysterical Diane by slapping her; in another annoyingly typical move for a story from this era, she reacts by immediately developing a fixation on Frank, following him out of the house when he drives away and meeting up with him at a nearby diner when his hospital shift ends. In spite of Frank’s relationship with a nurse he works alongside, Mary Wilton (Mona Freeman), he quickly embarks on an affair with Diane.

It’s more than a little odd, the way Diane forms an attachment to Frank as if he’s the first man she has ever seen, but perhaps that is because of her disturbing affection for her father. We know that Diane is still a teenager (she’s 19) and an emotionally immature one at that; she lost her mother during the Blitz in World War II, presumably grew closer to her father because of that and now resents her stepmother for drawing away her father’s attention. (Angel Face is nothing if not a muddled study of the Electra complex.) It is evident that Diane was responsible for the “accidental” incident that nearly killed Catherine. It seems that Frank is smart enough to recognize that Diane is a mixed-up individual, but he is still dumb enough to spend time with her and be sucked into her world, ignoring all the warning signs.

As ridiculous as the plot is in Angel Face, I felt sorry for Diane. She is not heartless. When the character commits a heinous crime halfway through the story, she is genuinely remorseful and attempts to come clean to the DA; the only reason she doesn’t is because her lawyer, Fred Barrett (an exceptionally smarmy Leon Ames), prevents her from doing so. In one scene, where we see Diane tiptoe through Frank’s empty bedroom and tenderly caress his various possessions, we perceive that her intense need to express her sexual desire is fueled by the romantic notions of a woman who is, in many ways, still a little girl.

Angel Face is not satisfying either as a film noir (because it’s not one) or as a sexual psychodrama - not to mention an ending that you can see barreling towards you at a hundred miles an hour - but there are two reasons that the film is worth checking out. For one thing, the score by Dimitri Tiomkin is really beautiful. Secondly, Jean Simmons was a wonderfully versatile actress with a career spanning from the mid-1940s to the late 2000s, appearing in a range of projects that included Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Hamlet, the musical Guys and Dolls, the historical epic Spartacus, the popular TV miniseries “The Thorn Birds” and, quite memorably in my adolescence, the portrayal of “Grandma” Sophie in the English-language voice cast of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle. She was capable of fitting seamlessly into films regardless of genre or time period and Angel Face shows Simmons’ ability to elevate weak material and make her performance compelling regardless.

The tale of how Simmons was treated on the set of Angel Face is truly sobering; legendarily awful producer Howard Hughes was so incensed by her rejection of his sexual advances that he went out of his way to make her jobs hell for her. He maintained control over her work offers while she was under contract at RKO, refusing to lend her out to Paramount for Roman Holiday (which won Audrey Hepburn an Oscar and made her a star) and choosing the roles Simmons could do for her. Furthermore, Hughes asked Angel Face director Otto Preminger to be as cruel as possible to Simmons, requesting multiple takes for the aforementioned scene that required Robert Mitchum to slap her hard across the face (which Mitchum was reportedly pissed off by, later slapping Preminger himself with the rhetorical question “Is that how you want it?”).

Feel free to watch Angel Face if you are a fan of Jean Simmons or if you would like to become one, but otherwise, you may want to take a pass.

#365 day movie challenge 2018 #angel face #1953 #1950s #50s #otto preminger #old hollywood #film noir #noir #jean simmons #robert mitchum #herbert marshall #barbara o'neil #dimitri tiomkin #mona freeman #leon ames #tcm #eddie muller #noir alley

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thelankyrandman-blog · 7 years ago

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Full Album-A-Day List in Alphabetical Order: 2017

Alright, it’s been too long since the end of the year, but here my list of albums I listened to in 2017. There are 365 albums here in alphabetical order by artist and then by release date in each artist. I am repeating the challenge for 2018 and so far I’ve listened to 62 albums. Let me know what you guys think of this list and please check out some of the music on here. Some of my favorite albums ever are on this thing.

Actress - AZD

Alvvays - Alvvays

Alvvays - Antisocialites

Aminé - Good For You

America - America

Anderson .Paak - Malibu

Andy Shauf - The Bearer of Bad News

Andy Shauf - The Party

Angel Olsen - Half Way Home

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Angel Olsen - My Woman

Angel Olsen - Phases

Animal Collective - Marriweather Post Pavilion

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Ariel Pink - Pom Pom

Atmosphere - Fishing Blues

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG

Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

Beach House - Depression Cherry

Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman

Berhana - Berhana EP

Blank Banshee - Mega

Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous

Big L - The Big Picture

Big Sean & Metro Boomin - Double or Nothing

Big Thief - Masterpiece

Big Thief - Capacity

Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

Booker T. & The M.G.’s - Green Onions

Brockhampton - SATURATION

Brockhampton - SATURATION II

Brockhampton - SATURATION III

Capital STEEZ - AmeriKKKan Korruption

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION

Chance the Rapper - 10 Day

Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

Charli XCX - Pop 2

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest

Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me

Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love

City and Colour - If I Should Go Before You

Clarence Clarity - No Now

Clipping. - Splendor & Misery

Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love

Connan Mockasin - Caramel

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Crywank - Tomorrow is Nearly Yesterday and Everyday is Stupid

Daniel Caesar - Freudian

Danny Brown - The Hybrid

Danny Brown - XXX

Danny Brown - Old

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

Dave Brubeck - Time Out

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Death Grips - Exmilitary

Death Grips - The Money Store

Death Grips - No Love Deep Web

Death Grips - Government Plates

Death Grips - Fashion Week

Death Grips - The Powers That B

Death Grips - Interview 2016 EP

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Deerhoof - The Man, The King and The Girl

Deerhoof - The Runners Four

Deerhoof - The Magic

Deerhoof - Mountain Moves

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Denzel Curry - Nostalgic 64

Denzel Curry - Imperial

DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs

Dirty Projectors - The Glad Fact

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors

Earl Sweatshirt - Earl

Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

Elucid - Valley of Grace

Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton

Everything Everything - Get to Heaven

Fantastic Negrito - The Last Days of Oakland

Father John Misty - Fear Fun

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Feist - Let It Die

Feist - The Reminder

Feist - Metals

Feist - Pleasure

Fever Ray - Plunge

FKA Twigs - LP1

Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

Flying Lotus - 1984

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra

Frank Ocean - channel Orange

Frank Ocean - Blonde

Freddie Gibbs - Shadow of a Doubt

Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata

Ghost Ship Octavius - Ghost Ship Octavius

Girlpool - Powerplant

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Greta Van Fleet - Black Smoke Rising EP

Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Grizzly Bear - Friend EP

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

Harry Styles - Harry Styles

Huncho Jack - Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho

Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator

Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai

Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

IDK - IWASVERYBAD

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo EP

Isaiah Rashad - The Sun’s Tirade

J Dilla - Donuts

J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

J. Cole - 4 Your Eyes Only

Jaden Smith - SYRE

Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet

Jay Som - Everybody Works

Jlin - Black Origami

Joey Bada$$ - 1999

Joey Bada$$ - B4.Da.$$

Joey Bada$$ - All-AmeriKKKan Badass

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights

Ka - The Knight’s Gamble

Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto

Kamaiyah - Before I Wake

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Karriem Riggins - Alone Together

Kaytranada - 99.9%

Kelela - Take Me Apart

Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

Kesha - Rainbows

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music

King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon

King Krule - The OOZ

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

LCD Soundsystem - american dream

Lil Pump - Lil Pump

Local Natives - Gorilla Manor

The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed

Lorde - Pure Heroine

Lorde - Melodrama

Lou Reed - Lou Reed

Lou Reed - Transformer

Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog

Madlib - Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note

Madvillain - Madvillainy

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?

Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds

Melvins - Eggnog EP

Melvins - Lice All EP

MF Doom - Operation Doomsday

MF Doom - Metal Fingers Presents: Special Herbs, Vol. 1 & 2

MF Doom - Mm.. Food

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Mick Jenkins - The Water[s]

The Microphones - Don’t Wake Me Up

The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2

The Microphones - Mount Eerie

Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Moses Sumney - Aromanticism

Mount Eerie - “No Flashlight” Songs of the Fulfilled Night

Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom

Mount Eerie - Dawn

Mount Eerie - Wind’s Poem

Mount Eerie - Clear Moon

Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar

Mount Eerie - Sauna

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers

Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives

The Mountain Goats - Goths

M83. - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

NAO - So Good EP

NAO - For All We Know

Nas - Illmatic

The National - The National

The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers

The National - Alligator

The National - Boxer

The National - High Violet

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

The National - Sleep Well Beast

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

Neon Indian - Era Extraña

Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School

Neutral Milk Hotel - Everything Is EP

Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

Nick Murphy - Missing Link EP

Noname - Telefone

Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death

Oddisee - The Iceberg

Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

The Pablo Collective - The Death of Pablo

Paramore - After Laughter

Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It

Perfume Genius - Too Bright

Perfume Genius - No Shape

Phoenix - Ti Amo

Phosphorescent - Muchacho

Pixies - Bossanova

Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti

Portishead - Dummy

The Postal Service - Give Up

Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe

Quelle Chris - Being You is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often

Quasimoto - The Unseen

Radiohead - Pablo Honey

Radiohead - The Bends

Radiohead - Kid A

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom

Ratt - Out of the Cellar

Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill

Richard Dawson - Peasant

Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow

Run the Jewels - RTJ3

Sampha - Process

(Sandy) Alex G - Beach Music

(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket

SBTRKT - SBTRKT

SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land

ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron

ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

Shabazz Palaces - Quazars: Born on a Gangster Star

Shapes & Colors - Love / Sex / War EP

The Shelters - The Shelters

The Shouting Matches - Grownass Man

Slint - Spiderland

Smino - blkswn

Snakadaktal - Sleep in the Water

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Solange - A Seat at The Table

Sorority Noise - You’re Not As ___ As You Think

Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things

Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note

Squarepusher - Go Plastic

Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?

St. Vincent - Marry Me

St. Vincent - Actor

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

St. Vincent - St. Vincent

St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

Stan Getz & Cher Baker - Stan Meets Chet

Substantial - The Past is Always Present in The Future

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Syd - Fin

SZA - Z

SZA - Ctrl

The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave

The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

The Tallest Man on Earth - There’s No Leaving Now

The Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home

Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

This is the Kit - Where it Lives

This is the Kit - Bashed Out

This is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse

Thundercat - Drunk

Todd Terje - It’s Album Time

Tonedeff - Polymer

Travis Scott - Rodeo

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Tycho - Past Is Prologue

Tycho - Dive

Tycho - Awake

Tycho - Epoch

Tyler, The Creator - Bastard

Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

Tyler, The Creator - Wolf

Tyler, The Creator - Cherry Bomb

Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Vagabon - Infinite Worlds

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend - Contra

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait EP

Vince Staples - Summertime ’06

Vince Staples - Prima Donna EP

Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

Volcano Choir - Unmap

Volcano Choir - Repave

The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues

The War on Drugs - Future Weather EP

The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

Warren G - Regulate… G Funk Era

Wavves - You’re Welcome

We Made God - It’s Getting Colder

The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness

WIFE - What’s Between

Wiley - Godfather

Wolf Parade - Wolf Parade EP

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Wolf Parade - Expo 86

X - Los Angeles

Xiu Xiu - Forget

The xx - Coexist

The xx - I See You

Yes - Close to the Edge

YG - Still Brazy

Young Pappy - 2 Cups Part 2 of Everything

Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls

Young Thug & Carnage - Young Martha

Your Old Droog - Packs

Zola Jesus - Stridulum

Zola Jesus - Okovi

#’s:

21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin - Without Warning

#lankyrandman #music

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mewangitenang · 7 years ago

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7 Hari Menulis. #2

Challenge hari kedua adalah menulis 7 lagu yang tidak bisa saya lupakan beserta cerita dibaliknya.

1. Prawita Mutia - Di Balik Gunung

Seandainya kau tau bahwa kau sungguh berharga Kau bisa jadi apa saja asal kau berupaya Seandainya kau tau apa doa ayah dan bunda Tak mungkin sampai engkau tega mematahkan isinya

Pertama kali menemukan lagu ini lewat youtube. Memang sengaja search nama @prawitamutia . Lalu kemudian iseng buka salah satu video dan ternyata isinya adalah lagu ini. Langsung jatuh cinta untuk pertama kali dengar. Liriknya sederhana, but it’s so deep. Sampai saat ini, karena lagu ini, saya belajar untuk terus bergerak dan berserah.

2. Maher Zain - My Little Girl

I pray that I’ll get the chance To be around and watch you grow And witness your first steps And the first time when you will call me “dad”

Selalu nangis sih kalau dengar lagu ini. Intinya lagu ini tentang Ayah. Apakah setiap Ayah di dunia ini merasakan hal yang sama seperti lirik di lagu ini? Kalau saja Ayah bisa nyanyiin lagu ini :’) Ayah itu suka banget nyanyi. Hobinya adalah mendengarkan musik. Entah dari radio atau kaset / cd. Salah satu penyanyi favoritnya adalah Broery Marantika dan ABBA. Sewaktu Ayah masih sehat segar bugar, kadang lagunya sengaja disetel dengan volume besar, terus karaoke ikutan nyanyi sampai terdengar ke rumah tetangga hahahaha :’) Best moment sih. Kalau Ayah-ngga-pernah-sakit, dan sekarang masih sehat, mungkin Ayah ikutan bikin akun Smule :’3

3. Harris J - I Promise

I promise anytime you call me It don’t matter where I am I’ll always be there, like you’ve been there If you need me closer, I’ll be right over I swear, I swear

Lagu ini tentang keluarga sih. Pertama kali tau lagu ini pas lagi scrolling dashboard tumblr. Salah satu kawan ngepost music video lagu ini. Deep banget. Recommended buat jadi reminder peran kita sebagai anak :’)

4. Raisa - Firasat

Ku percaya alam pun berbahasa Ada makna di balik semua pertanda Firasat ini rasa rindukah ataukah tanda bahaya Aku tak peduli, ku terus berlari Cepat pulang (cepat pulang), cepat kembali, jangan pergi lagi

Kalau yang ini momentnya lucu. Waktu itu, saya sama beberapa kawan datang ke acara Haiday, tahun 2013. Ada banyak gueststar, salah satunya ada Raisa. Pas Raisa muncul dan nyanyi lagu ini, jujur saya nangis di depan panggung, padahal suasana di sana ramai banget, penonton membludak. Raisa nyanyiinnya bikin baper hahahaha Sampai diledekin kawan-kawan saya, “Serius lu nangis??? Kok bisa sampe nangis sih?? Waaa ica galau…” Hahahahaha. Dan sejak saat itu, setiap kali dengar lagu ini, saya langsung flashback moment nonton Raisa di Haiday hahahaha.

5. GOT7 - Just Right

[JB] Jigeumcheoreom manmanmanmanman man Isseojumyeon nannannannannan Baralge eopseuni neon amugeotdo Bakkuji mamamamama [JR] Amu geokjeongmamamamamama Neoui modeunge dadadada da joheunikka Neoneun amugeotdo bakkuji mamamamama

Gara-gara lagu ini saya jadi suka colorful. Salah satu penyebabnya sih. Pas nonton MV nya, langsung histeris, “PARAH INI LUCUK BANGET!” Lagunya juga easy listening banget. Well, saking sukanya sama MV dan lagunya, saya punya dua sweater dan satu tshirt era Just Right hahahaha. Dan dari MV ini juga saya sadar colorful dan semi-color block itu menarik banget. Wohooo~

6. STEPS - Chain Reaction

We talk about love, love, love We talk about love We talk about love, love, love We talk about love

Yang paling diingat dari lagu ini adalah music video-nya, disetting di rumah sakit. Saya tau lagu ini dari album Gold: Greatest Hits yang rilis tahun 2001. Kakak saya yang beli cd-nya. Saat itu umur saya baru 8 tahun hahahaha. Tapi sudah suka grup musik barat dan suka banget setel cd Steps di tv. Nonton music video-nya dan ikutan ngedance di depan tv sambil nyanyi Bahasa inggris yang pronunciationnya berantakan banget kayak kumur-kumur hahahaha. But it’s fun!

7. Putri, Ubas, Rani, Anita (AFI Junior) - Terima Kasih, Guruku

Guruku tersayang … guru tercinta tanpamu apa jadinya aku… tak bisa baca tulis mengerti banyak hal… guruku terima kasihku…

Kalau lirik ini pas banget part-nya Ubas sih, reff kedua hahahahaha Lagu ini kalau ngga salah muncul di tahun 2004, pas ada acara AFI Junior. Terus di awal lagu ada lirik “Pagiku cerahku, matahari bersinar, ku gendong tas merahku di pundak.” , gara-gara ini saya jadi suka beli school back pack warna merah hahaha. Sampai saat ini, meski sudah bertahun-tahun, lagu ini masih jadi yang terfavorit. Kelak kalau saya punya anak, akan saya tularkan kecintaan saya sama lagu ini :D

215 / 365.

#life #love #215 / 365 #2017 #jurnal harian #7harimenulis #lagu

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reluctantrenegade · 6 years ago

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365 Day Writing Challenge, Day 67

Write a story that features the color blue.

Here’s an incredibly stupid (true) story that involves blue.

So, when I was in high school I went to a birthday party for a friend of mine. The year was 2008 (ish?) It was her sixteenth party, it was great, in retrospect pretty sure I made all the boys there think I was gay because I slow danced to “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon 5 with a female friend of mine (am I sad about that? Not really).

Anyway, the friend throwing the party had great and weird taste in music and one of the songs that she played happened to be “I’m Blue.” As in, I’m blue da ba dee da ba die. I guess I was a sheltered youth, because I had never heard that song before. But I thought it was amazing. (Note, I was not drunk or high at this point. Just very lame.)

Here’s the problem, though. My friend was playing this song on her iPod nano through speakers (ah, the 2000s), and I didn’t see what it was. I didn’t remember the lyrics. I just remembered the melody and that I loved it. I wanted to hear it again. The beautiful melody that I had remembered.

Shazam had not yet been invented (it would be invented very shortly, though it would still take me a while to actually get the app). By the way, coincidentally, the Shazam app is also blue. Da ba dee da ba die.

Anyway, I tried typing vague lyrics I remembered into google with no luck. I didn’t remember the key “I’m blue”, I guess, or maybe I didn’t think “da ba dee” could possibly actually be correct. Or maybe google was just shittier and less omnipotent back then. I remember getting results for things like Blue Oyster Cult or Blue October. But the beautiful Europop novelty song was still out of my reach.

The next time I heard the song was in 2013, five years later. I was (and am) Marvel trash, and I was seeing Iron Man 3 in theaters. Here’s basically how it opens: Dramatic monologue from Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man suits inexplicably exploding. Flashback to early 2000s. Marvel logo. Aaaaaand....

Yo listen up here’s a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world...

My brain said, “No...it can’t be.”

But indeed it was. My melody has returned. And, look, it was...a little disappointing. Or maybe disappointing is the wrong word.

Now that I was older and more wise in the ways of the world I could see this song for what it was, a weird Europop novelty song, and I questioned why it had stuck in my brain so strongly after that night.

Maybe it wasn’t so much about the song as the fact that I was surrounded by people at that party that I was convinced were cooler than me, especially the host, and I immediately assumed the songs she was playing were Very Cool and Very Hip when actually she was just playing the same stuff we all listened to back then, good or not.

So, is it embarrassing that I was convinced I’m Blue was beautiful? Yeah, kinda. But being a teenager and assuming everyone else but you is correct and cool is also embarrassing. And universal, I think. So I’m not judging past me too harshly.

#365 day writing challenge #day 67 #writing prompt #writing challenge #writing #i'm blue da ba dee da ba daa

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evikdpriagung · 2 years ago

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20230212 #1 10.55 WIB

43/365 Days 11,988

Pagi2 hujan. Padahal mau melanglang buana ke antah berantah. Akhirnya ngechatime, ngindomie, snacking dan ngereview INTM Episode 24. The theme for the photoshoot it Let It Go your Insecurities, jadi models itu harus nulis her insecurities dan kaya berasa pengen keluar dari box. Suka banget dengan tema runway barbie doll y. In this chalenge, Monice become the FCO. Padahal dia baru comeback. Olivia dari Jakarta harus tereliminasi. Menurut aku kalau combine antara foto dan runways, Marella itu da best ya. Tapi fotonya Monica itu strong bingiiits. Here is my Score:

Challenge: 8.5

Winner Photoshoot: 9

Show/Programme: 8

Theme: 8

Visual/Music: 7.5

AVERAGE: 8.20/10

#Photoshoot #Model #TopModel #LetMeGo #Insecurities #INTM #Cycle3 #Netverse #Review #KalibataCity #Kalibata #Jakarta #Sunday #February #12th #2023

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danielemarigold · 4 years ago

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365 Days of Music Challenge

165. A song that has sent chills down your spine

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sweet-soul-sister · 6 years ago

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I’m blue by Eiffel 65

Day 194: A song that mentions your eye color in it well, my eye colour is blue and this song is probably one of the most famous songs that mentions “blue”. although it is quite a different context.

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threesixfiveplaylists-blog · 7 years ago

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16. feeling small like an asterisk

a very quiet playlist for waking up. slow tempo. do not be mistaken, i am fine, this sad quiet playlist is no reflection on me, merely another mood in the bucket. enjoy on a quiet chilly morning, buddy.

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lifejustgotawkward · 7 years ago

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2018) - #79: Wonder Man (1945) - dir. H. Bruce Humberstone

Fans of Danny Kaye will probably enjoy this musical comedy, although it is hardly his best work and it lacks the energy and sparkle of his better films, like The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Court Jester. Despite a healthy amount of corniness and some jokes that run on too long, Wonder Man offers an unusual form of entertainment by showcasing Danny Kaye in dual roles as twin brothers who are complete opposites in demeanor and choice of profession. “Buzzy” Bellew is a loud, flashy extrovert who runs an exciting Manhattan hot spot called the Pelican Club (a stand-in for the real-life Stork Club), while Edwin Dingle is a brilliant but shy bookworm who spends all day, every day in his local library, absorbing tome after tome in an effort to write his own encyclopedia of world history.

Although Buzzy and Edwin have not seen each other in over a decade, they have the special type of connection that twins often possess. This bond turns out to be supernatural after Buzzy is killed by a pair of hitmen (Allen Jenkins and Edward Brophy), out to get him because he witnessed a murder committed by mobster Ten Grand Jackson (Steve Cochran); from beyond the grave, Buzzy contacts Edwin and convinces the skittish sibling to impersonate Buzzy just long enough to convincingly testify for the New York DA and put Ten Grand in jail. (And that’s just the start of the story!)

Several romances bounce around throughout the narrative: Buzzy is engaged to adorable showgirl Midge Mallon (Vera-Ellen), who is simultaneously loved from afar by Buzzy’s business partner, Monte Rossen (Donald Woods); at the same time, Edwin is sweet on his local librarian, Ellen Shanley (Virginia Mayo), who is totally baffled by the changes that the formerly quiet young man undergoes when Buzzy inhabits Edwin’s body. Additionally, a bunch more character actors make appearances in Wonder Man: S.Z Sakall, Otto Kruger, Natalie Schafer, Huntz Hall, Gisela Werbisek, Luis Alberni, Cecil Cunningham, Mary Field and Jack Norton all show their faces at various points.

Wonder Man is consistently engaging, but I’ve never been a fan of Danny Kaye’s extended musical-comedy sequences, the ones that seemingly go on forever with weird noises and facial contortions. This film’s key example of such absurdism is the “Otchi Tchorniya Number,” a riff on the classic Russian theme that involves every possible permutation of vocal acrobatics as modified by Kaye’s lyricist wife, Sylvia Fine. I appreciate Danny Kaye’s unique comedic presentations, but all the same I’m always glad when the lengthiest performances have ended. I also felt distinctly uncomfortable while watching the film’s first musical number, “Bali Boogie,” in which Kaye, Vera-Ellen and the Goldwyn Girls do some delightful dancing to a song filled with costumes and language representative of the era’s usual stereotyping towards cultures outside of the US. There’s a lot to love about Vera-Ellen’s dancing in Wonder Man, but I would prefer not see her and Kaye pretending to be Indonesian for a few minutes’ cheap laughs.

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shelbyswift · 5 years ago

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365 Days of Music Challenge

Day 59: A song that reminds you of someone you cannot or would not tag on facebook

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conservativeamericatoday · 7 years ago

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