#Broken record

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

Brazenautomaton wrote this (emphases mine) back in September 2020, and to the surprise of absolutely nobody, it still applies word for word because these people (who BTW have the balls to call Trump supporters cultists) have not changed ONE JOT OR TITTLE in their narrative, and they keep giving us ample demonstrations of the Definition Of Insanity again and again:

This isn’t a “purity test”. This is “you guys cannot stop betraying me, you are just as bad as your opponents despite claiming we need to vote for you to keep your opponents from getting power, you do not give a shit about any of the causes you claim to be for, you engage in shitty backroom deals to sabotage the primaries and make sure the one awful candidate you Anointed gets the nomination, you cannot stop betraying me, and I am not going to reward your bad behaviour any more. The only way you might possibly realize you have to stop being terrible and actually do something about the causes you claim to champion, is to stop rewarding you for betraying us. You need to be reminded that a vote is not something you are entitled to, it is something you have to earn. I will vote for the candidate who doesn’t make me want to put a gun in my mouth and if you can’t meet that standard you don’t get my vote.” [...] The party line is now “Okay, the party betrayed us and nominated awful people who won’t do anything we want them to do, but we still have the obligation to vote for them! After we elect these people, then we’ll really hold them accountable and make them do what we want!” And how do they propose to hold politicians accountable when they are committed to always voting for those politicians no matter what? It’s not like “well, okay, next election will be the time to address how they keep betraying us.” Every single election in my entire lifetime, the Democrats have said, whether about the Presidency or lower offices, “Okay, so we know we betrayed you and nominated people you hate and who won’t do the things you want. But you have to vote for them anyway! This particular election is just too important to hold us accountable for betraying you, so much is at stake in this particular election!” You cannot stop bad behaviour by rewarding it. If they don’t earn my vote they don’t get my vote.

Listen to me. Listen to me right now. Two years from now people are going to tell you to vote for Democrats in the midterms. And you're going to shut the fuck up and do it.

[screaming--agony]

Dear Diary,

I don’t care anymore. Nothing changes.

[halfusek]

Hello! I may have bored you in three days, but I have a question.

In the comic, it could be that Joey was secretly in love with Sammy, but didn't dare say so. And by creating the Ink World, did he make Lawrence fall in love with it?

It's just that in the Russian translation of the comic there is a moment when Sammy leaves the room, and it says "Gay panic".

But in both worlds, Drew has a relationship with Susan.

Just re-reading Sammy's conversation with Susan, I didn't understand... He is upset that Drew didn't break off his relationship with her.

Oh, actually story! Joey and Sammy are in a relationship, they hold hands in some panels and such, there isn't too much about it and it's a very unhealthy one but it's there :)

In the real world Joey and Sammy never got together but there were some sort of strong, complicated feelings between them

And yes Joey has been dating Susie in both worlds (which was also an unhealthy relationship haha just how it is with him)

Yes, Sammy is upset that Susie and Joey are technically still together while Joey without a problem has been doing "couple stuff" with him as well, he wasn't exactly aware of that

He knew that Susie and Joey dated but as Susie became Alice their relations looked so complicated and hateful that he didn't think they'd still be together. So he was sad to learn that he was hurting Susie this way unknowingly

And Susie had satisfaction in making him upset about that

Joey just takes :)

[neverlostmycrown]

#30daysmusicchallenge2024 for Daughters of Darkness!

Day 7: A song that needs to be played LOUD:

Evanescence - Made of Stone

Made of Stone is one of the oldest songs written for Evanescence's third album. Amy said in an interview that it was written two years ago, meaning 2009 (part of her Broken Record).

Amy about MOS:

"I had that one from the first time we went into the studio for a minute, a year ago. It was part of that batch of songs that was really in a different direction before. And then bringing the band into it and making it more of this full rock song. Wow, it really jumped it up to a new level, sort of like the way I've always wanted it to be.

The song is strong, it's about strength. It's not completely literal 'cause obviously you can't numb yourself until you're made of stone. It's kind of saying, "I'll take it beyond this, I'm gonna have to make myself harder."

The piano solo featured during the middle eight is the same song Amy played in the "Meanwhile, in the studio..." video she posted on her Twitter account on May 11, 2011.

(x)

[theformerbastard]

Rough day. Cried. Over it.

[ksodirty]

[aeolianblues]

well, you know exactly what I’ll be reading this weekend now :)

UK DCMS special committee decides has advised that by law, all concert tickets have a levy that goes straight to growing grassroots music. Small local venues, up and coming artists, DIY promoters and gigs will receive this support. It could make a huge difference, having a safety net under the grassroots music scene.

The idea of levies isn’t new, it’s been discussed before and was in the news lately for having had a variety of responses: on the one hand, Coldplay were voluntarily taking a £1 levy on every ticket they sold in the UK to give back to emerging music, on the other hand the owner of the Co-Op Live, a large arena in Manchester, called grassroots venues ‘poorly run’ and cited that as a reason not to want to fund them, saying their venue didn’t ‘need’ the artists the grassroots were promoting. In 10 years’ time, all your retiree greatest hits bands will slow down, Gary. Who are you going to book then? No UK artist under the age of 30 has played the Co-Op to date.

So you can see why a legally mandated levy becomes a good idea. If the owner of places that sell 23,500 tickets a night can’t agree to a £1 levy, it’s for the best that it be mandated.

Of course, this is still a DCMS finding, and the government needs to make it law, but we’re past September 2024. It has now passed the voluntary trial period. It’s a case, as the Music Venue Trust said earlier, of when and how, not of if.

I’ll be reading the report properly over the weekend. Looking forward to this.

[starlarz]

for the 98327389th time: NEVER drop nicky bobby again

[fieriframes]

[Like a morning crow and his unwelcome song. Or a worn-out broken record that keeps skipping along. Mountains of instructions you keep piling on me. Resound like a cacophonous symphony.]

[yepthatsacowalright]

I know it's mostly just me and 3.5 others shouting into the void about Eerie Indiana at any given time and I'm trying to be chill about it, but I just rewatched ep 8 Broken Record and dude. DUDE. Without getting into spoilers...a milk truck gets wrecked in this episode. "The biggest milk truck crash in the history of Eerie," Marshall says. "The whole town came out to look."

As the camera moves down and into the growing crowd, and if you're paying attention, you will see how true that statement actually turns out to be. Take these multi-colored vintage ladies for example? And this robed man in shades?

They are Marshall's neighbors, who tried to sell his mom Foreverware in ep 1:

and the guy on Marshall's paper route (aka the guy who gave Marshall girl advice in ep 7, aka faked-his-death Elvis Presley):

Also this guy in the orange jumpsuit? And the kid in the letterman jacket?

are a Bureau of the Lost employee from ep 4:

and Marshall's friend Eddie from ep 3:

and don't worry - Eddie's buddy, Nick (in the black backwards baseball cap above) also made it to the scene of the milk truck crime:

I wouldn't be surprised if I missed anyone. (I suspect the set of twins are also the same ep 1 set of twins, too.) And they are intermingled with a bunch of properly random people who just...wander. They walk from left to right across the frame...then right to left. There's a man with a tuba who I'm pretty sure aimlessly and inexplicably walks through every shot at least once. I am just obsessed with how much extra thought went into planting these people in the background for the bit, then having what they're doing in it not even make sense. Because when your show is about the Center of Weirdness For The Entire Planet you can lean so hard into continuity issues that you come full circle and it's perfect again. I love

this showwwww

[danwithouttheplan]

Not to sound like a broken record, but...

SCRAAAAATCH CRACKLECRACKLE PFFFFHASSHSSSHSHSSS CRACKLE BUFUMP BUFUMP BUFUMP SSHSSSHHSHHSHSHSHS ZZZFFFZUUSUS

[starsworldblog]

our sweet memories keep replaying in my head like a broken record

[sadboimusic69]

Broken Record - Hollywood Undead

Song 99

[damonalbarn]

INT: I woke up yesterday singing The Narcissist. Do you have any kind of formula or tricks for making something go down easily? Damon: Well how's that song on My Fair Lady? "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" INT: The sugar come with the melody? Damon: I don't know. It's certainly not on the lyrics, the lyrics are rarely uplifting. Spike Milligan was a brilliant comedian writer and on his grave stone he had inscribed 'I told you I wasn't feeling well' (laughs) It's the joy and sadness of life. That final victory that makes people laugh. And that's kind of the essence of melancholy: the realization that you are dying your best life. INT: What's the significance of the title of the album? Damon: Darren is a friend of everyone in the band. He represents all of us. Darren is everyman. INT: Well… did he go through something significantly recently? Damon: Well we all go through significant things. Obviously as I wrote the songs I guess I went through some significant things as well. I am a certified sad-55-years-old. I'm not afraid of sadness you know. INT: Is there an overall emotional framework to the album? Damon: I think once they catch you certain songs will play with your emotions quite heavely. Songs like The Everglades will snap people on the face at one point. INT: Do you have any kind of trepidation about writing vulnerable lyrics or exposing yourself? Damon: I suppose that in many ways this (record) is my vulnerable. Vulnerability… by singing about it you're somehow easing it. The vulnerability is diminished by your ability to express it. INT: Writing songs… does it help you to understand your emotions or talk about it? Damon: Yes but I don't like to make it all about myself. I use where I am in my life and how I feel to talk about other things sometimes.

Via Broken Record podcast. 2023.

[land-of-sinners]

I've never done anything original ever