#IWasGone

[wonderlandxstyles]

I literally haven't been on here in months! but my new laptop is so much faster so here I am. and I hate the tumblr app on my ipad bc it takes up so much space.

[ihave9lives94]

Yep. But in the comfort of another family member home i downed 13 shots and sent a shit load of messages to people. 😭😭😭 #HappyNewYear #NewYearSameMe #IWasGone #DrunkAf #Allat https://www.instagram.com/p/BsGh9BRnsrc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tz9p3hfxvqfk

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[thenewmizzluvliblack]

Ok. I didn't post much from Friday night. 😝 #hennything #bdaybehavior #iwasgone #theywasrootingmeon #fullofit #thenewmizzluvliblack1 #bdaybih https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMPewEAfPZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13kqxgrb5rpgh

[tony5to]

Cuz it's Tuesday 🤷🏻‍♂️#latePost #IwasGone #DontMindMyUglyass #LookatThatwoman #Bae #lastTimeiUsethatHashtag #iSwear (at Blue Martini Fort Lauderdale)

[ssaintlaurent]

im back lol

[db-juna]

I don't make a habit of writing about every hospitalization and i've only shared with a few this past weekends woes but this recent scheming by this president and the Republicans in the House necessitate the need to highlight the fact that some of us live with and are labeled with pre-existing Conditions that can complicate even the simplest issues please pay attention to what your elected officials are doing you never know when you may become labeled a pre-existing condition or your kids or future kids... #btwThanksforalwaysbeingthere #dontletmanyin #electionsmatter #jimmykimmelmotivatedme #imaprexistingcondition #thestruggle #iwasgone #ivmedshadmelike #tislife #iguess #skinnydave #candidmoments #cheerstothephotographer #preciateyou

[dirtyconsumer]

Havin so much fun w all this layering. #mixedmedia #artonpaper #isawrain #ohwell #illustration #drawing #paper #painting #iwasgone #blockletters #acrylic #spraypaint #layers #ink #graphite #workonpaper #loveit #studio #obscuredface #twofaced

[zanrai-kid]

I have no legitimate sleep schedule, so take my list of my Top 20 favorite Gorillaz tracks

20: Momentz - In the same league as Feel Good Inc., don't at me.

19: Stylo - Mos Def and Bobby Womack absolutely devastating on the bridges. Hearing Jeremih perform this live was gorgeous.

18: Humility - Gorillaz made a summer jam, and it sure sounds like it. Damon's getting old, man. Just wants to retire, wants to have a few beers by the beach. 

17: Sleeping Powder - iwasgone I M B A C K ASDKJHAJSDHGSKDJHFGKJHASGLDKJAGSD

16: Feel Good Inc. - A legendary song in my formative years, and a soundtrack to the Bush administration as important as “American Idiot”. Only so low on the list because of oversaturation.

15: Rhinestone Eyes - This song is the embellished production of Plastic Beach in a moment. I once made a mashup with this song and "Kangaroo Court" by Capital Cities.

14: Re-Hash - First song on the first album, and it slaps.

13: Ascension - Vince Staples is such a brilliant voice in the latter half of the decade, and I'm pleased to see Damon Albarn recognize this.

12: DARE - Hot damn, this song is a jam.

11: M1 A1 - Hearing this song kick off a Gorillaz concert feels like getting shot by a cannon. It's the "most like the sound the pilliows exuded on the FLCL soundtrack" song in the Gorillaz discography, and for that, I like it.

10: Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head - When Gorillaz want to tell a horror story, they double down and get Dennis Hopper to tell a story of apocalypse. Demon Days is such an immortal album, and this song will live on as a ubiquitous reminder of one's mortality at the hands of greed. Good one for the pessimistic crowds of both 2005 and 2019.

9: Rock the House - BETTER THAN CLINT EASTWOOD. FIGHT ME. When Gorillaz sample audio, they make sure to make the most of it. The ten second sample of John Dankworth's "Modesty Blaise" carries Del the Funky Homosapien's bragging boogie rap through to another level with the tight bass riffs the self-titled album is known for. Echo effects, horn stabs, a fucking recorder. This tracks fucks me up.

8: Souk Eye - I think a track off of The Now Now is one of the best works in the Gorillaz discography. Primarily because following Humanz and The Now Now, Albarn and Hewlett are in a strange time of their lives. Both are now 50 years old, and Gorillaz has lasted 20 years. The concept has run its course for now. To hear this song close this chapter of the Gorillaz story feels fitting. A love song to the many miles taken, only to realize one must leave their current circumstances in order to survive.

7: Last Living Souls - It's a cliche to say a song builds, but when the track starts with little more than a drum machine, and leads to an acoustic breakdown and string section breakdown back-to-back, you can agree this song builds. A lush atmosphere of tiny bleeps and bloops coming together to become greater than the sum of all parts. The song sounds so down and muted on the album, but hearing it live, it feels like a war cry. Both interpretations fit the themes of Demon Days, and it's a good one to start off the album following the Dawn of the Dead sampled "Intro".

6: El Mañana - Hearing this song follow "Busted and Blue" accompanied by visuals of Noodle during the Humanz Tour is the closest I've come to a religious experience at a concert. The sudden immediacy of the situation following "Feel Good Inc" is made aware from sirens and Damon delivering a ragged vocal delivery. The track ebbs and flows in and out of deep bass and washed out highs. It feels like a sigh. It feels like crying. And if you're a Gorillaz lore sucker like I am, this track accompanies the death of Noodle, the single most important event in the canon. Also, the acoustic version reminds one how good Damon is at evoking very quiet emotion.

5: Tomorrow Comes Today - When those drums come in, man, you get teleported to the turn of the millennium. Dirty trip-hop was coming out of the UK en masse, Fatboy Slim released one of my favorites albums of all time "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars", and Daft Punk's "Discovery" was still a year off. In between some of the most important music of my life being dropped, Gorillaz dropped their first single "Tomorrow Comes Today" at the end of the year and solidified their place for years to come. Slinking and sly, velvety and smoky. This is Gorillaz sending up a culture of basement shows and turntablism. If Think Tank is the first "Gorillaz album", this is when the transition was made manifest.

4: On Melancholy Hill - Ugh, this song. This song is pretty. Full stop. It's one of Gorillaz' very few love songs, and it still manages to capture the plasticine sadness of Plastic Beach. Plastic Beach was my first real and honest introduction to Gorillaz in college, as I only remember hearing about Demon Days from advertising in 2005, when I was 12. This track was just a treat to hear in spring/summer, and a reason I made so many (see: too many) of my finals about Gorillaz. Around the time Humanz was teased, I went back and realized this song had held up so well. It's just a universal sentiment about how the world we know is falling apart, but let's have this moment together. The acoustic version is an honest to God lullaby. Something I can play my future children. Not bad for only 16 lines of lyric.

3: Empire Ants - If "On Melancholy Hill" is about finding the beauty in ruin, "Empire Ants" holds a magnifying glass up to ruin, wondering how it came to be. Listening to the album, "Superfast Jellyfish" came just before. A satirical take on consumeristic meals leading into a song about how we are personified as ants, marching in tandem to complete our tasks and build ever outward, never truly satisfied until death. It is a reminder to look upon the greater picture that is our world and see the moments of tranquility for what they are. Sadly, these moments do not last, and Little Dragon's part reminds us we are part of a machine, ever moving, ever crumbling. It is beauty interrupted by obligation, and for a kid who was in college when this album dropped, and who is now 26 and facing a lifetime of having to make my own decisions, it's an anthem.

2: Hong Kong - I remember loading the entirety of Plastic Beach onto my iPod Nano, and having an iTunes gift card left to spend from Christmas/birthday/etc. Having seen the Demon Days Live concert, I knew this track had to be on my beautiful iPod Nano. That, and for some reason, "Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix). I remember long car rides staring out the window, listening to this track as the scenery blew by. I remember reading up on this track's history, how it was released in-between Demon Days and Plastic Beach and it shows, how it's a tale of neo-industrial China and Hong Kong's place in both Chinese and British history. This is both a love letter and warning to the nation of the apocryphal train ride that inspired Demon Days. In a world where China seems to be ever rising, "Hong Kong" is a song that asks questions of how this will affect the world as a whole, using Hong Kong as a metaphor. That's nothing to say of the wondrous instrumentation, the piano part in particular on my wishlist of "Songs I Should Learn on Piano Before I Die". Many call it Gorillaz' most underrated track, and I agree full stop.

1: DoYaThing - I'M THE SHIT. I SAID I'M THE SHIT. Above all else, Gorillaz is a collaborative effort of hundreds of musicians from all walks of life. When you throw James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, a band that rose in the same timeframe as Gorillaz, and Andre 3000, my personal pick for the G.O.A.T., magic happens. Uncut, unedited, 13 minute magic happens. Is it a bit of a meme? Sure. It is a shitpost disguised as a legitimate song? Why not. But sometimes, the goofy aspect of Gorillaz can craft audio gold. And aren't we all about memes on this blog? Albarn's at his most snotty white boy. Murphy's production and vocals are a reminder he was every music nerd's wet dream in the 2000s. Andre 3000 is just laying into every line with a confidence not heard since Stankonia. Everything about this song is designed and manufactured to sound like it it running off the rails in a fit of confidence. It is both wildly powerful and mournfully unaware. In short, to quote the great music critic Todd in the Shadows on the subject of LCD Soundsystem’s song “Losing My Edge”, "(It is) a critical darling... This was tailor made for critics. It is perfect music nerd bait, total pandering." DoYaThing, my favorite Gorillaz song of all time.

[heyybekind12]

hheyguys iimsorry iwasgone

[bvlladonna]

Damn girl what happened?

This would be long and ratchet sorry to anyone’s dash that gets sneered with this lol:So this little girl (my sister- literally just 11 months behind me but still acts wayyy more childish than me) had an attitude because her dog peed and I was telling her to clean it. She caught the biggest attitude (we were just cooking in the kitchen together and had no bad blood, I was making her food as this took place) she starts going in on me talking about my mental health...like??? I’m very aware honey. That’s why I major in the psychology field. There’s nothing wrong with ppl who struggle with their mental illness. Don’t you dare. I told her to stop speaking to me for the rest of the day as I made lemonade. She said “YOURE STILL TALKIN ABOUT THAT SHIT UR HURT” and some other bs like...this just took place less than 20 seconds ago. ~Everyone in my family knows I am the most violent. I’m the sweetest, most sensitive, reserved and understanding but I pent up so much negative emotions for the sake of everyone but once I put my hands on someone (which I avoid. I hate fighting. I’m the type of person to fight then cry about it because I came out of my character: Pisces lol) I take out everything on them. If I haven’t expressed my negative emotions in 6 months six months of rage is going to hit the person I’m fighting. That’s just me which is not good at all but I’m working on it.~So she would not stop talking about my mental state. I told her to just shut up (the other day I told her I was going to end up flipping out if she kept fucking with me and she completely disregarded that I guess) so I was petty and threw the water I was using to make lemonade right on her....this bitch came back and sprayed me with bleach. All over my back and my hair. Bleach and water are two different things. That’s just the ultimate disrespect, next to spitting so when she did that- IWaSGOne I wAsnt even there anymore. She tried to run. NAH SON. I felt really bad after but she ran up again...got hit again lmao I felt the most bad tho because i accidentally made my older sister bleed because she tried stopping it. I feel really terrible about all of it tbh. But my entire family has really been testing me nonstop and its effecting me. I’ve been saving tho and soon I can finally move out. I can’t wait.

[hulk23jtb]

#365Project Day 345 of 365 Discovered this group during my 365 Music Project & ended up buying the entire album. Take a couple minutes & check them out. They are Great!! #IWasGone #FinneganBell

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[bencharma]

We Terrorised The Night! 👀👻👿🎃 This guy is stuck on Summer mode guys, still walking around in string vests lol #Halloween #TurntUp #IWasGone #EyeContactsOnFleek #Gremlin #Twighlight #NewBorn #GoodTimes #GoodVibes #NewFriends #GoodPeople #NoDramaInMyLife #RealFolks #Realness

[carlosnorton-blog]

Them Boys Don't Stop..! #OTF👌 #ItDontStop👋 #WhoIsTheOneGirl😝 #BlurryPicture😁 #IWasGone🙊 #🅱ang🅱ros🔫😷😎 (at University of South Florida)

[free-the-nipples]

A Story By Looped Me @ 3am

If you have ever been in a car youve prolly noticed that cars r like all the same but normally different like they all have pistons, but some cars have multiple pistions, those cars have superpowers and theyre cool but the really coolest cars has NO pistions thats cars like the batmobile, see it doesnt have a piston but it has like 13 maybe 17 flywheels thats why the batmobile can fly but anyways cars a like people some cars are fast and some cars are dead but some people are vegitarian like cars. like me !!! :) i dont eat cars BUT LIKE IDC I U DO I WONT JUDGE YOU FOR EATING A CAR because like bunnies eat carrots and i love bunnys because the eat carrots sometime i see bunnies eating carrots and i get scared because carrots are (insert drawing of an orange bc i couldnt spell it) and my hair is (insert same drawing of orange) and i think the bunny is gonna eat me and im like super arfid of zombies so idk howd id feel if a bunnie ate me.