#Chloe Rasmussen

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Comics about A Deadly Education - the 2020 school year

It’s fun to think about pop culture and high school seniors speedrunning the “am I old” crisis

[sandange]

Just started The Scholomance series

I have a two mile walk home four days a week, audiobooks good. Anyway, two thoughts:

Orion being more weirded out by El being nice and expressing concern than her snapping at him every ten seconds is hilarious. Classic tsudere interaction.

Imagine these characters just...relaxing, post-canon. Once they've graduated and gotten out of the school, they can finally let themselves breathe and not worry about mals. Imagine the shift, realizing they aren't risking life and limb every time they do anything, they can finally let themselves chill and just be.

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A Friend Named Paul by Varsity from the album Parallel Person - Directors: Mark Pallman & Amanda Speva

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more from chloe melas' instagram story

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2023 - BEST ALBUM

AWARD NO.2 - BEST ALBUM OF 2023

PAST WINNERS

2022 > Jockstrap - ' I Love You Jennifer B' (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem - ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > The Flaming Lips - ‘American Head’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)

2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)

2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)

2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’

2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’

2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’

2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’

2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’

1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’

1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’

1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’

1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’

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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.

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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these things that don’t really live on the main lists.

Bulbils no.72 > 79

Bulbils ‘Map’

EP/64 'EP-64'

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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly. 

Matmos / Eartheater / Tkay Maidza / Xiu Xiu / Ashnikko / Arthur Russell / Spellling / Cornelius / Liv.e / John Bence / Daniel Blumberg / Thy Slaughter / Two White Cranes / Billy Woods & Kenny Segal / L’Rain / Callum Easter / Cleo Sol / Holly Waxwing / Doon Kanda / DELUXE100 / ‘Barbie’ OST / Khan & Neek / Mui Zyn / Steady Holiday / Jamie Branch / Mitski / Mac DeMarco / Slowdive / Underscores / Armand Hammer / James Blake / Dutch Uncles / DJ Brittle / Slug / The Go! Team / Sofia Kourtesis / Kali Uchis / Sampha / Yussef Dayes / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / King Creosote / Niecy Blues / Lankum / The HIRS Collective / Alexia Avina / Altin Gun / Sulka / Spektral Quartet, Julia Holter & Alex Temple / L.T. Leif / Maria BC / Tom Rasmussen / Wednesday / Tim Hecker / HMLTD / Andrew Hung / Blonde Redhead / Frost Children / Heavy Lungs / Fire-Toolz / Jim Legxacy / Durand Jones / Clark / Teenage Fanclub / Galen Tipton / Feeble Little Horse / Grouptheraphy / Grian Chatten / Asake / Speakers Corner Quartet / George Clanton / PJ Harvey / Jonatan Leandoer96 / Fenne Lily / Terry / The Coral / Modern Nature / Snooper / Gabriels / Little Dragon / Being Dead / Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist / Noname / Overmono / Olivia Rodrigo / Nation Of Language / Caro / Irreversible Entanglements / Devendra Banhart / Say She She / The Streets / Vanishing Twin / BC Camplight / Ethan P. Flynn / Withered Hand / ThisisDA / Sarahsson / Blanck Mass / Jadu Heart / Hotel Lux / Emily Breeze / Chloe / Feather Beds / Margaret Glaspy / Nature Of Language / WaqWaq Kingdom / Bo en / Patten’ / David Holmes / Belle & Sebastian / Cloth / Phoenix / The Golden Dregs  / Julie Byrne

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2023 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Laurel Halo ‘Atlas’ 

Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘12’

John Cale ‘Mercy’

Felicita ‘Spalarkle’

Hyperdawn ‘Steady’

Moin ‘Paste’

Spencer Cullum ‘Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2’

MC Yallah ‘Yallah Beibe’

Alabaster DePlume ‘Come With Fierce Grace’ 

Kwes ‘Rye Lane’ OST

Bianca Scout ‘Heart Of The Anchoress’

James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra ‘The Great White Sea Eagle’ 

Sweet Baboo ‘The Wreckage’

ML Buch ‘Suntub’

RS Tangent ‘When A Worm Wears A Wig’

Blockhead ‘The Aux’

Martha Ffion ‘The Wringer’

Mark Jenkin ‘Enys Men’ OST

Yo La Tengo ‘This Stupid World’

Tennis ‘Pollen’

Bar Italia ‘The Twits’

Klein ‘Touched By An Angel’

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ‘Land Of Sleeper’

David Brewis ‘The Soft Struggles’

Lorraine James ‘Gentle Confrontation’

Black Country, New Road ‘Live at Bush Hall’

Mandy, Indiana ‘I’ve Seen A Way’

Firestations ‘Thick Terrain’

Memotone ‘How Was Your Life?’ / ‘Illuminations Part I-III w/ Chris Yates’

Janelle Monae ‘The Age Of Pleasure’

Girl Ray ‘Prestige’ 

Vagabon ‘Sorry I Haven’t Called’

Gruff Rhys ‘The Almond And The Seahorse’

Yves Tumor ‘Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume..’

Sleaford Mods ‘UK GRIM’

Podcasts ‘Podcasts’

Noah Radley ‘Devoid Of A Contact Or Contextual Clues’

Deerhoof ‘Miracle-Level’

H Hawkline ‘Milk For Flowers’

Mary Lattimore ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’

Jessie Ware ‘That! Feels Good!’

Feist ‘Multitudes’

Weird Wave ‘Lost Map Presents Weird Wave’

Blur ‘The Ballad Of Darren’

Avalon Emerson ‘& The Charm’

Roisin Murphy ‘Hit Parade’

Actress ‘LXXXVIII’

Amy May Ellis ‘Over Ling And Bell’

Jam City ‘Jam City Presents EFM’

King Krule ‘Space Heavy’

Peter Brewis ‘Blowdry Colossus’

Amaarae ‘Fountain Baby’

Death’s Dynamic Shroud ‘After Angel’ / ‘Keys To The Gate’ / ‘Midnight Tangerine’ / ‘Transcendence Bot’

This Is The Kit ‘Careful Of Your Keepers’

Decisive Pink ‘Ticket To Fame’

Travis Scott ‘UTOPIA’

James Holden ‘Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities’

Willie J Healey ‘Bunny’

CHAI ‘CHAI’

James Ferraro ‘Concerto For Strings’

Sufjan Stevens ‘Javelin’

Shabazz Palaces ‘Robed In Rareness’

Bas Jan ‘Back To The Swamp’

Free Love ‘Inside’

John Medeski ‘The Curse’ OST

Brother May ‘Pattern With Force’

Langkamer ‘The Noon And Midnight Manual’

Uh ‘Humanus’

Patten ‘Mirage FM’

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MY TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2023

50. Robbie & Mona ‘Tusky’

49. Lonnie Holley ‘Oh Me Oh My’

48. MF Tomlinson ‘We Are Still Wild Horses’

47. Oliver Coates ‘Aftersun’ OST

46. Joanne Robertson ‘Blue Car’

45. Yeule ‘Softscars’

44. Lil Yachty ‘Let’s Start Here’

43. Robin Allender ‘Underground River’

42. PinkPantheress ‘Heaven Knows’

41. ANOHNI & The Johnsons ‘My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross’

40. Joanna Sternberg ‘I’ve Got Me’

39. Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’

38. Andre 3000 ‘New Blue Sun’

37. Kinlaw ‘WELD’

36. Memotone ‘Tollard’

35. Cleo Sol ‘Gold’

34. Mun Sing ‘Inflatable Gravestone’

33. Dorian Electra ‘Fanfare’

32. Bar Italia ‘Tracey Denim’

31. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ‘Reset In Dub’

30. Kara Jackson ‘Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?’

29. Avey Tare ‘7s’

28. Kate NV ‘WOW’

27. Kelela ‘Raven’

26. Danny Brown ‘Quaranta’

25. Jessy Lanza ‘Love Hallucination’

24. 100 gecs ‘10,000 gecs’

23. Christopher Bear & Daniel Rossen ‘Past Lives’ OST

22. Quade ‘Nacre’

21. Django Django ‘Off Planet’

20. Tirzah ‘trip9love…???’

19. Nourished By Time ‘Erotic Probiotic 2’

18. Das Koolies ‘DK.01’

17. Jockstrap ‘I <3UQTINVU’

16. Lana Del Rey ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’

15. Fever Ray ‘Radical Romantics’

14. Hannah Diamond ‘Perfect Picture’

13. Water From Your Eyes ‘Everyone’s Crushed’

12. Rozi Plain ‘Prize’

11. Young Fathers ‘Heavy Heavy’

10. Yaeji ‘With A Hammer’

9. Pozi ‘Smiling Pools’

8. Animal Collective ‘Isn’t It Now?’

7. Slauson Malone 1 ‘Excelsior’

6. Steve Mason ‘Brothers & Sisters’

5. The Lemon Twigs ‘Everything Harmony’

4. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Again’

3. Caroline Polachek ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’

2. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown ‘Scaring The Hoes’

1. Squid ‘O Monolith’

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Official Trailer For Shudder's THE UNHEARD

Check out this official trailer for THE UNHEARD Streaming on Shudder on March 31st Directed by Jeffrey A. Brown (THE BEACH HOUSE) Written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen (CRAWL) Starring Lachlan Watson, Michele Hicks, Shunori Ramanathan, Brendan Meyer Synopsis After undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, 20-year-old Chloe Grayden (Lachlan Watson,…

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Niesłyszane (2023) Filmovody.pl

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2023 BUFF - Dispatch #1

Green’s Party is proud to be covering the 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival, which kicked off last night at the Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA).  I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022). 

me at the Boston Underground Film Festival red carpet!

Last night I went to the Brattle Theatre and I actually got to sit next to my Cruising In The Van Productions chair in the 5th row! The Opening Night Film was The Unheard. Jeffrey A. Brown’s follow up to The Beach House is set to premiere on Shudder later this month, but the Massachusetts-filmed psychological horror film had it’s World Premiere at BUFF. What got my attention about this, was screenwriters / producers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. Full disclosure: The Brothers Rasmussen have become friends of mine over the last decade though the Boston film scene.  2005′s underrated Long Distance was co-written by them. Then they wrote 2010′s institution thriller The Ward, which was John Carpenter’s first movie he directed in about 10 years. Then they wrote and directed 2013′s Dark Feed, a horror movie about a movie crew filming in a scary location. They wrote and directed the indie horror film The Inhabitants (I was lucky enough to attend the private cast/crew/friends screening in 2015). Then they co-wrote Alexandre Aja’s Crawl  (one of my 10 Best Movies of 2019).

But I digress. In The Unheard, we meet Chloe a young woman who undergoes an experimental procedure to restore hearing loss. She then goes to her family home in Cape Cod. She is haunted by memories she had as a child. That home was the last place she saw her mother before she went missing. She starts having auditory hallucinations and it’s not clear if that is related to the recent procedure or if strange things really are happening in the off-season of this Cape Cod home. This slow burn is a film I’m super glad I saw on the big screen as the Brattle just installed a killer new sound system. The sound design in this movie is off the charts and there’s a VHS element to this film was is creepy and haunting. Lead actor Lachlan Watson (NOTE: the actor goes by they, the character goes by she) gives one of the best horror movie performances in recent memory (up there with Mia Goth in Pearl and the cast of Nope). Also need to mention supporting actor Nick Sandow, known for his comedic tendencies on Orange is the New Black, here he really leans into this dramatic role as a former cop turned handy-man for the property. Highly recommend watching this with headphones on and not doing anything else while watching it. 

Michael, Shawn and Jeffrey during the Q&A with BUFF Artistic Director Kevin Monahan.

The film was followed by a Q&A with Brown and the Rasmussens. Afterwards I hung out with them at the after-party. Good times!

Tonight: Films include Stand By for Failure, Spaghetti Junction, and Smoking Causes Coughing.

For info on this year’s #BUFF23: https://bostonunderground.org/

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for my coverage of this year’s fest!

[lezzy36]

eh might as well

january: higher ground- rasmussen (idk i haven’t listen to this song in years but i guess it’ll go well???)

february: squaring up- sir chloe (i suppose i either face a challenge or get to know someone kinda toxic)

march: cloud 9- beach bunny (ah. crushes) (or possibly love??)

april: can she bake a cherry pie- gina young (nursery rhymes? potential lesbianism?? whimsy???)

may: the avatar’s love- phill watson (i guess its happy. or fulfilling maybe. idk there’s no lyrics)

june: are you bored yet?- wallows, clairo (at best a loving relationship. at worst a kinda problematic one)

july: counting stars- one republic (another one i haven’t listened to in ages)(hopeful??? idk)

august: space girl- frances forever (fuck yeah lesbians)

september: rise up- andra day (oof i should really do a playlist cull i barely listen to half if these songs)(i guess i might do something big. maybe activism or overcoming something. who knows)

october: babooshka- kate bush (time to concoct a devious plan to fool an ex husband)

nobember: ophelia- the lumineers (love and a flood i guess)

december: heather- conan gray (ooo im in for it)(third of december babeyyy)

well that was kinda half-arsed but i enjoyed it anyway. happy new year yall

idrk who to tag so ill just leave it open to whoever

i wanna start a tag game so: let your spotify predict your 2024!

shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

january- guns and ships- hamilton (idek what this could represent but okay)

february- we fell in love in october- girl in red (PLEASE)

march- say no to this- hamilton (…i have nothing to say about this)

april- castles crumbling- taylor swift ft hayley williams (damnit sad month then?)

may- you’re losing me- taylor swift (FUCK TWO SAD MONTHS?? breakup songs are even worse now that im actually in a relationship. please. better not be accurate)

june- astronomy- conan gray (please stop why am i having so many sad songs)

july- stoned- ed sheeran (oh fuck this)

august- new year’s day- taylor swift (hm okay. idk what to say about this)

september- heather- conan gray (i consider heather to be a happy song AND it’s mine and my partners song so i’m taking this as a good one)

october- 18- one direction (yessss we’re going okay now)

november- king of my heart- taylor swift (YESSS)

december- all too well (ten minute version)- taylor swift (i take it back ugh)

no pressure tags!!- @autumnleavesforwinter @weeping-in-the-willows @swiftieannah @felizusnavidad @jittyjames @anixknowsnothin (please help me get this off the ground, but also if this flops you saw nothing)

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cute fits for The Real World

tfw 4 years of trends to catch up on and explore

[anbrosy]

Can’t believe we got almost nothing about Chloe in the golden enclaves, WHERE’S MY ANXIOUS GIRL?

[wolfjustdraws]

*Liu teaching everyone singing techniques*

Aadhaya: thanks for the tips

Chloe: yeah, not bad Liu

Liu: *smiles* thanks. You know there’s a saying with singing that if you get a song stuck in your head, it’s because your future partner is singing it

Aadhaya: oh, that’s interesting

El: ok then, who the fuck has been singing baby shark at 3 am for the past month? I can’t get it out of my head

Orion: *panics, trying not to snort*

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One way Balthazar is like Orion: getting off on the wrong foot with El immediately and incurring her wrath.

Another thing about Orion and El is El is the first person to tell Orion off for being a hero when everyone else was praising him for it. Pointing out the unhealthy parts of what he's doing, calling out his staggering lack of forethought, and generally challenging him out of old patterns. Small wonder he's so engaged and enamored with her, El doesn't let him get away with anything because she wants him to be better, even before she realized it.

I'm not sure El realizes the ability to detect malia the way she does isn't commonplace. If she's most familiar with her mother and her own senses, both strict mana users, then she's not inured to background radiation, like how city people don't notice the noise or the smells and are unused to seeing the stars.

...It is incredibly convenient that this lesser evil, morals are unnecessary in the face of logic spiel is coming from an insanely wealthy middle-aged white woman with untold amounts of political power, and that's before the whole "severed her own anima and literally feeds on people who work for her" part. I'm sure she believes every word, but that doesn't negate what she's done and is doing from her position of power. I refuse to accept any moral authority from a literal vampire who is genuinely shocked to realize she cares about her child.

Oh God Chloe's in such an awful position right now. Knowing this is what New York enclave is now, the power center for a malificer, except this is her home. Chloe's parents are here, her uncle, maybe her grandma who taught her alchemy. Friends, extended family, people she loves.

The opening moments of El furious as she does everything she can to try and drag Orion out of the Scholomance is giving me flashbacks of 1. Susan in Thief of Time outraged at Lubsang Ludd"You...𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰!" and 2. Annabeth Chase judo-flipping Percy when they're reunited at New Rome.

Just the most powerful "How fucking dare you, you goddamn idiot!" Tsundere outrage, with the added spice of "That's 𝘮𝘺 goddamn idiot!" fueling the fire.

El, honey. What, did you think Liesel would do when you forgot to check in? She's not a wait and see person, she's more likely to kick the door down and demand an answer, you know that. (also I think the audiobook narrator got a better handle on Liesel's accent in this one, she sounds more consistently German now.)

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Incorrect Quote

El: Lake's at that very special age when a boy has only one thing on his mind.

Chloe: Girls?

El: Mals.

[quietflorilegium]

“I couldn’t just be angry at her. Obviously I wanted to scream at her and set her whole enclave on fire, but that was just habit. What I really wanted, what I wanted with frantic desperate hunger, was to *change her mind*, the same way I wanted to change everyone’s mind about me. I wanted to grab her and shake her and make her see Orion—*me*—for five seconds as a person. Only I knew I wasn’t going to get what I wanted, because that *would* cost her. If Orion was a person, he didn’t owe it to her to keep wearing that convenient little buzzer on his wrist, just in case she or any of her actual friends needed help, for nothing in return. If he was a person, he had as much right as she did to be scared and selfish, and she was supposed to pay back everything he gave her. She wasn’t interested in that deal, was she?”

El Higgins, Naomi Novik, “A Deadly Education”

[mariannesketchnotes]

The Scholomance story Beside the Golden Door by Stellarete details Chloe growing up in the New York Enclave.

The Scholomance books Deadly Education, The Last Graduate & the pending: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik detail El's story in the magical school the Scholomance.

Chloe is a fascinating character who has learnt growing up to be blind to the intensity of the privilege she grew up with and yet learns to open her eyes throughout the series and to become a genuine friend.

The enclave's teachings are so similar to all the messaging in more privileged societies. I am a university educated European and know rationally that I hold an immense amount of privilege even if there are still a lot of hardships and intense challenges in life. Chloe doesn't ignore her privilege, but does learn that her value and existence are not intrinsically tied to it. She works to be a better friend and person.

This story highlights Chloe's character growing up and the subtlety of the messaging and teaching. It's not even maliciously done: survival is paramount and these parent do lovingly want their children to live come what may.

The Scholomance by Naomi Novik is an intriguing and wonderful story and I am very curious for the conclusion that'll be published in September.

While we wait, this fanfic story is a lovely glimpse into this universe and character.