#A Weekend In The City

[clubnate]

heads are going to roll

[total-derangement-of-the-senses]

Song of the Day

25 Feb., ‘23

[sapphos-daydreams]

Did not have Bloc Party officially releasing the B-sides to A Weekend In The City on my 2024 Bingo card

[sengokubasara3]

Hunting for Witches

[kmarttelescope13]

fortunately the guitar riff from Selfish Son has infected my brain like a parasitic worm

[gayestpiano]

i made a playlist of song titles in chronological order

update/disclaimer: not all of the songs on the playlist are in these screenshots! i think it would've been too many pics but the link is there if you want to see all of them. i've also added dozens of suggestions from other users since posting this so these screenshots are outdated

[spiceupyourfcknife]

I’m fine I’m fine I’m fine I just need to listen to A Weekend In the City (2004,Bloc Party)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

we need more hero/arch-nemesis duos whose backstory is being bitterly, bitterly divorced

[bsportif]

lots to take in and talk about as the mexican gp kicks off but nothing is as big or as important as admiring this absolute queen. who is she??? she looks so good. posing down. serving face and body. showing up in every team’s posts and ig stories for A REASON

[sonarpup]

from A Weekend in the City (2007)

Lyrics & such below but this album has some amazing tracks and I highly recommend it as a whole. I listed some additional standout track/lines below

I'm sitting on the roof of my house With a shotgun And a six pack of beers Six pack of beers, six pack of beers The newscaster says "the enemy's among us" As bombs explode on the 30 bus Kill your middle class indecision Now is not the time for liberal thought So I go hunting for witches I go hunting for witches Heads are going to roll I go hunting for 90's, optimistic as a teen Now it's terror Airplanes crash into towers Into towers, into towers The Daily Mail says "the enemy's among us Taking our women and taking our jobs" All reasonable thought is being drowned out By the non-stop baying, baying, baying for blood I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires I watched TV, it informed me I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire There must be accountability Disparate and misinformed Fear will keep us all in place

It's not subtle, but it's not trying to be. I like the framing in the end of "I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires - I watched TV, it informed me I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire. There must be accountability".

Others from the album I think about a lot:

"Sunday" is maybe my favorite love song

When I'm with you I am calm A pearl in your oyster Head on my chest, a silent smile A private kind of happiness You see giant proclamations are all very well But our love is louder than words

"Where Is Home?" is crushing. One of Kele's close family friends was the victim of a racially-motivated murder in London.

So I just sigh, and I just sulk And I pretend that there's nothing wrong The teeth of this world tear me in half And everyday I must ask myself where?

"SRXT" is an amazing end to the album - a note about ending, and an implied beginning

Like a castaway on a warm ocean Waiting for a purpose to rise They say it's not becoming For a boy my age If you want to know what makes me sad Well it's hope, the endurance of faith A battle that lasts a lifetime A fight that never ends

[muzsmocsing]

Being friends with Xie Lian would be so weird because this man peppers in bits of his insane life ruining trauma randomly mid sentence. You'd like accidentally step on his toes and he'd go "ah don't worry about it, that foot's been cut off and eaten before anyways" smile, and then never elaborate.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I need to see your version of devil Charles and angel Erik of the special draw for Halloween they've done😂😂

i haven't much time today i fear but ill ALWAYS find enough time for Them

[lifemod17]

HEAR ME OUT!

📸: Ruthlessimagery

[deep-space-lines]

I MADE MYSELF AN EARTHMOVER

The idea that earthmover plushie was something i could realistically maybe make was beamed into my brain on friday may 10th at exactly 11:23 PM and then proceeded to consume my entire weekend. i did not know if this would work but i did it. i made him. my weird lopsided dog Benjamin

(I'd be happy to write up the pattern/instructions if people are interested- I think it'd be pretty simple to recreate since he's like 90% rectangles- but be warned that I have never tried to draft a plushie pattern from scratch before and it's kinda janky as hell the way the legs are attached feels like one of those illegal lego techniques so you have to promise not to make fun of me ok)

[theneondreaming]

[samarajethwa]

Posting some WIPs (Wizards In Progress)

Link in bio for store, prints etc. 🪄