#Mariana Parodi

[elleberquist6]

The lyrical genius of Ghost <3 Mariana Trench

You go east just of the pacific islands Mariana, Mariana Trench. Not just another ocean feature Mariana, Mariana. You go east just of the pacific islands Mariana, Mariana Trench. Your biogenous ooze never scared me Mariana, Mariana Trench. Explored only by Piccard and Walsh bottom of the Challenger Deep And no other person has seen that. Nothing wrong with that Mariana, Mariana Trench Nothing wrong with that Mariana, Mariana Trench Mariana, Mariana Trench <3

[jolieblack]

Jolie's thoughts on

The Creeping Man (Sherlock & Co. podcast)

Check out these lovely pieces of fanart for the episode:

Stake out by @mayhasopinions

Rip Ratthew by @noodles-and-tea

You feline bastard by @abstractfrog

I hope people in this universe will never get the idea that Watson is the great storyteller. That’s clearly Sherlock - his deduction about the death of Ratthew was easily as engaging as his account of Matheus's death back in "Thor Bridge".

"Get down here and atone for your sins, you feline bastard!" 🤣 I just love how strongly Sherlock felt about Ratthew‘s death. And then how strong a bond he ended up forming with the perpetrator.

And the meta jokes in this podcast! Mariana pleading for donations bc Sherlock & John weren’t getting paid for this case but were still renting high end cars and attending expensive events… John ruining a brilliant opportunity for an ad break at the Thai restaurant… I can’t believe how brilliant a parody of true crime shows this continues to be, as well as a fantastic audio drama, *and* a very very sweet account of one of the most beautiful friendships in the history of literature.

More stuff I liked in this episode:

Sherlock & John playing Scrabble. Joel Emory is the King of Banter.

We got a "come at once"! 🥳

"It’s 2024, no-one needs to be saying 'thus'". 😆

Have we actually just assumed until now that John is short in this universe, too? At any rate we just heard it confirmed by Bill Wiggins and I’m HERE for it.

The uncool non-noir stakeout 🤣

"And are those skeletal entities in the room with us now?" 🤣

"My dear companion" *happy sigh*

John ending up in Chekhov‘s pool just before the 2nd part credits. On the cliffhanger scale of 1-10, definitely an 11.

"There we go, John." - I love how Sherlock reserves the use of Watson's first name for special occasions. And how caring he can be. He also literally just fished John out of the pool!? So they’re both sopping wet in this scene?!

Loved John's little speech about people’s lives getting commercialised. And the ping at the end.

"I hate you both." - Mariana is such a vibe sometimes.

"Say no more." - "So long, sucker." - "Oh no, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" - John Watson , anti-hero extraordinaire, strikes again, pun intended. How can you not love him.

"I have a dog and a detective to look after." - My heart.

On a serious note for a moment, I thought it was interesting how well this ACD story translates to our modern day and age, with the quest for eternal youth going stronger than ever, and people still willing to pay enormous sums of money for scams like that, and even ready to ruin their physical and mental health for it. I love how this show keeps finding ways to make the themes of ACD‘s stories relevant to today’s world.

In the crime solving sense, I dare say it was completely clear what the mystery was about halfway through the 2nd part, even for those who didn’t know the original story… but the showdown was definitely worth waiting for. Glorious.

[deelaundry]

AO3 Wrapped [writer’s ^and vidder's edition]

1. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

This was another year of needing the push of fests to finish and post works. @calaisreno's May prompts 2024 helped a lot, although I didn't go as far with updating The Private Personal Blog of Dr. John H. Watson as I wanted to. I posted seven (very short) chapters for the first eleven prompts. The remaining twenty prompts have been plotted, just not written :( and will take the story to the end of S3, where we wave goodbye entirely to canon. FYI- my notes for that section say:

That’s the end of canon. NO ABOMINABLE BRIDE NO MORIARTY RETURN NO DRUGS RELAPSE NO EURUS - Redbeard was a dog - Victor was a uni friend

Second biggest surprise was how much I absolutely fell in love with Sherlock & Co. I didn't think I'd have another show grab me the way this has. Not had a ton of fannish output yet, but it's likely coming.

2. How many WIP's do you have in your docs for next year?

A gajillion in docs. I keep thinking, "Can put this away; I'll never go back to it," and then immediately having my brain go back to it. Slightly fewer in the vid idea queue, but that's not zero.

3. Your favorite character to write/vid this year?

Great big cuddly squishes for the two John Watsons I wrote, BBC John and Jonk (podcast John). Same person at core, completely different in personality.

Vid: I liked vidding Yasper for Dance the Night, but vidding Ken to a "Xavier" song was also just *chef's kiss: Imma Live Forever

4. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

Not posted yet, but I've written some Mariana from podcast. I adore her and feel I can write her inner self... but am very frustrated that I know nothing about growing up in Spain. Don't know what her relationship with her family is like, what her inside jokes are with Spanish friends about British people/UK, etc. I have some handle (from an outside perspective) on what it might be like to be Hispanic in the US but nothing on being Spanish in London.

5. What's one pairing you want to explore next year?

Sorry not sorry, more than one:

More of BBC poly QPR Sherlock/John and others around them

Podcast Sherlock/John/Mariana

BBC John Watson and James Wilson as exes from secondary school when James was on an exchange program in England

A different deep platonic relationship for BBC Sherlock and "John"

Sherlock Holmes & James Wilson friendship (where James calls Sherlock "Shushy")

BBC Molly Hooper/John Watson taking place after John's gone to prison for assaulting Sherlock in S4. You might not be surprised to learn that their relationship is actually all about Sherlock.

There's also a BBC kinky WIP that ends with Greg Lestrade/Mary Morstan, although it won't really explore that relationship per se.

6. Did you receive any gifts this year?

Yep and they were all great!

King of Anything [Fanvid] for Overboard (1987) by periru3

A triptych of related fics by Vulgarweed: Follow the Lights in Sherlock BBC, Pusherman in Watson and Holmes comic, and Champagne Supernova in Sherlock & Co podcast.

The Final Adventure of a Problematic, Lying Detective (Aka Oklahomo IV) which is an hilarious fic based on a Norwegian parody of Sherlock BBC.

7. Did you do any collaborative works this year?

Nope.

8. What do you listen to while writing?

Nothing while writing. While vidding it's the vid's song over and over and over again.

9. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

In vidding, it's the fun match of the music with Ken sliding slowly down the hood of his truck, and the Mt Rushmore horses being the "fake-ass hoes."

In writing, it's from a blurb that I may or may not ever finish: The sex was glorious, a feedback loop of sensation rather than a race to an outcome, and at one point the woman gasped, "God, Watson, you fuck like a dyke." 

Oh, wait, I wrote that in 2023. What is time?

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Thank you @meetinginsamarra for your AO3 Wrapped that inspired this!

[elwenyere]

2, 19, 20 for the end of year meme? 💖

Thank you very much for the asks, Serie!!! Questions are from this end-of-year ask meme.

2. What’s something new that you tried in a fic this year?

This was probably the most research-heavy year of fics that I've written yet (including four non-contemporary historical settings and a few geographic locations I haven't visited). One story that included both a good deal of research and some stylistic experimentation is However Stern and Iron, my Steve/Tony fic inspired by Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South. I wanted to try evoking Victorian storytelling not only in the period details and the shape of the plot but also in the mode of narration I used. It felt like a tricky balance to strike (giving the fic a period flavor without losing the voices of the characters or slipping into stylistic parody), but I came to enjoy the ways it stretched me.

19. Share your favorite piece of dialogue

Thank you for giving me the chance to do another one of these. <3 One of my favorite things to write is an argument, and here's one of my favorites from Hypnagogia:

He bides his time, waiting until he and Arthur are both back at his guesthouse to press the point that’s been building like a cluster headache at the base of his skull. “Striker's agreement,” he says. “It was with Cobb, wasn’t it? That’s why you keep refusing to call off the job.” “It doesn’t matter who the agreement was with.” Arthur’s voice is even, but it sounds scraped-out underneath, like a bridge that’s had its piles carried away by the current. “What matters is that I’ve said I’ll do it, and I’m going to do it.” “As a rush job with a green forger and a mutinous architect.” “Minks is just being Minks,” Arthur says. “And Mariana’s ready.” “You’ve been awfully quick to that conclusion.” “And you’ve been dragging your feet, even though you’re the one who brought her in. You recommended her, you trained her, and I’m saying she can do the job. Why is that a problem?” “I recommended her because you would have done the job with bloody Johanssen otherwise. An absolute bellend. You’d have ended up fifty feet deep feeding barnacles in the reefs.” “I’m glad to know you think so highly of my competence.” “Your competence isn’t the issue here, and you know that.” “Look, Eames, I don’t know what you want from me. I’m just trying to finish the job.” “That’s the issue,” Eames says. “That’s what I want from you. I want to know what it would take. What would have to happen to make you walk away? To leave the work to someone else?” Eames pauses, hearing a note in his own voice that sounds the wrong side of urgent. His chest aches suddenly, like he’s just come up short on a final sprint, and he has to resist the urge to massage at a dull pain around his breastbone. “You’re the one who won’t drop the shop talk,” Arthur says, “when we could have been fucking ten minutes ago.”

20. Share your funniest line

A great delight and challenge in writing Xedgin for the first time in Should the Way Become Too Dim was doing comedic group scenes, which I haven't written in a while. With apologies for quoting another lengthy section, here's an exchange that tickled me personally:

“Hey.” Holga pointed a half-eaten potato spear at him. “Stop being pissy.” “I’m not being pissy,” Edgin said, pissily.  “Yes you are. You’ve been pissy ever since you didn’t get to hold hands with Xenk in the caves.” Edgin’s train of thought sputtered momentarily to a stop, a facial muscle around his left eye twitching like a cornered prey animal, and then he recovered his dignity: recovered it so quickly and smoothly he could hardly be said to have lost it at all. He turned his shoulders toward Holga to convey the full weight of his contempt at her suggestion - and perhaps to avoid acknowledging the way Simon was choking on his beer. “If I’m pissy about the caves,” he said, “it’s because you could have broken down the door the whole time, and instead we stood around exchanging our birthdays and addresses like we were coordinating social calendars. The truth is I couldn’t be more delighted that we didn’t all have to hold hands -” “Dad, why don’t you want to hold Xenk’s hand?” Kira interjected. She widened her eyes innocently as she said it: a ruse that under other circumstances Edgin would have been proud to say she’d picked up from him. “I don’t care about holding Xenk’s hand,” Edgin said. “I don’t think about Xenk’s hand either way -” “What about my hand?” Xenk asked, and Edgin did not jump: he was a seasoned thief and a sometime Harper, and he had the situational awareness of a hawk.  “Edgin either did or didn’t want to hold it,” Doric replied, sliding the ale they’d ordered for Xenk his way as he sat down to join them. “We’re still trying to get to the bottom of it.” “I am entirely neutral on the subject of hands,” Edgin objected. “Xenk’s or otherwise.” “Hmm,” Simon hummed. “You don’t sound all that neutral, to be honest.” “Oh my aged Lord of Neverwinter,” Edgin muttered. “What do you people need, a signed affidavit? Does anyone have another sacred text for me to swear oaths on?” “We could bet on it,” Holga suggested.

Thank you very much for the asks, my friend!!! This was a treat.

[thetrashman43]

Silly Game Time: WRONG ANSWERS ONLY! What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

A parody

A PARODIES NUTS

[musical-chick-13]

This is an EXCELLENT year for me specifically, music-wise.

Banger BMTH album. The Last Dinner Party's excellent debut album. Emo's Not Dead guy making a tribute-parody project that knocks it out of the park at every turn. Boston Manor and Stand Atlantic releasing new projects later this year. MARIANAS TRENCH IS BACK.

[blazehedgehog]

Got a top 5 or 10 most wanted Fortnite skins?

I've been playing Fortnite regularly since 2019. I've had every Battle Pass since Chapter 2. I get free currency daily for having a Fortnite Founders Pass (hence why I have every Battle Pass).

I am drowning in so many skins that the 100 locker presets Epic gives you is nowhere near enough. Every time I get or buy a new skin, I have to make the hard decision of what I can safely replace.

It actually genuinely influences my spending habits because I'll think, "I've wanted this guy for a long time, but I don't feel like deleting anything for him."

If you mean: are there any skins not in Fortnite that I really want? I don't know if I can answer that. Partially because of what I just described, but partially also because of "Santa's Lap Syndrome" where I'm sure I've said "oh I want that in Fortnite" but now I cannot for the life of me remember a single thing.

Following through on Samus would be nice, I guess. It seems like she was really close to releasing and then got held up at the last second. There's a fair amount of evidence in her favor (but this post is long enough as it is), and I was all prepped an ready to buy her back when I thought she was right around the corner.

As for skins already in the game, I can just skim a list to tell you that.

Envoy. She's priced cheap and I think she's cute.

I'd love to have Calamity, but she's a battle pass and as such will never rerun. She's just a cool cowgirl and has lots of alt styles.

I've come very close to buying ISO and her male counterpart. They're actually in the shop as I'm writing this. FIGHTING POLYGON TEAM

Sandshark Driver reminds me of Gum from Jet Set Radio. That's enough for me.

Mezmer is another guy I've come EXTREMELY close because I think his mask is rad.

I think Peekaboo's juggalo/goth clown alt is hilarious but I've never been able to bite the bullet and buy her.

The Joker is fun but he's always a real money skin and he's only sold in a pack with other stuff for like $30. Barf.

Mariana looks super cool but I wonder how visible she is at night.

Trog was a Battle Pass skin so he's gone forever.

I like Errant because you can apply gun wraps to his armor, giving him hundreds of customization options. But I own another skin that functions somewhat similarly.

Silver Surfer just looks cool.

I have Deadpool, so the other X-Force members just make sense, like Domino and Cable.

I regret not being on the ball enough to get this Playstation Blue variant of Versa. (it was free for PS+ subs) Vanilla Versa is definitely a "one day when I have enough vbucks to spare, I'll buy her."

The Classic Storm Trooper is also just a good in that "I always had this skin in Quake 3" way.

Blackheart is another Battle Pass skin I would die for. Blackheart/Blakebeard is one of THE best characters in STW, Fortnite's campaign mode. AND HE HAS GHOST PIRATE STYLES

Dire is yet another Battle Pass skin I missed. He was the Halloween skin one year and is basically just a cool werewolf, and you can toggle how far in to the transformation he is.

Spider Knight is just a cool looking... uh, Knight. Really, I also want his glider, which is a giant flying black widow spider. But the skin looks great, too.

I've come very close to buying Ghost Rider.

I've waffled back and forth on Rustler because I don't know how much value there is for me personally in just going "hur hur it's my little pony." It's still funny it exists, though.

I've thought about getting the OG Beef Boss, but I already own a couple of other variants, so it's less important now. Same for Tomato Tom.

They put a freakin Gundam Wing parody (Sentinel) in the Battle Pass and it is maybe my #1 regret not having it.

Sometimes I want Crackshot, but I have a friend who uses him pretty often, so it'd be kind of weird? (Another STW all-star character)

When I first started playing, Moisty Merman was the top of my most-wanted list. Now I've wondered if I still care.

Deadfire is in the same camp as Calamity as far as "cool cowboys" go, but this guy is also a phantom cowboy. Double cool!

Order Remnant is the same category as Envoy where he's not very expensive and I just like the way he looks.

Madcap is a fun concept for a character and I like his colors.

A World War 1 gas mask guy is a weird thing to see in Fortnite, and that's the entire reason I want Sky Stalker.

I don't like Chiara's default (with the silver paint), but I love her alt.

I didn't love Kill Bill, but something about Siren is still cool.

Taskmaster is like The Joker where I'd like to have him, but he's in an expensive real-money pack and no thanks.

Eternal Voyager was a Battle Pass skin from the season before I started playing regularly and he's awesome. That skull alt...

...Honestly? That's a lot more than I expected. And I'm probably forgetting or missing some. For comparison, here's a (also probably incomplete) list of all the skins I already own.

If I had to boil it down to a top ten most wanted, I'd say: Chiara, Versa, Mezmer, Ghost Rider, Sky Stalker, Taskmaster, Madcap, Deadfire, Domino and ISO, I guess.

[thorne1435]

School parody song voice: you go down to the old mari, Mariana, Mariana trench

[amoqa]

Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me

8/12 Sunday/Κυριακή!

AMOQA is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. 

Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (USA).

Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.”* Linking “red” to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deeper, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.

Video Synopses

Gian Cruz, Dear Kwong Chi

In Dear Kwong Chi, Cruz creates a video letter to the late artist Tseng Kwong Chi, drawing from the experience of living with HIV in diaspora. Across continents and decades, Kwong Chi’s legacy acts as an anchor for Cruz amongst limited representations of Asian narratives in AIDS histories.

Milko Delgado, El Club del SIDA

Taking its title from a sensational telenovela episode, El Club del SIDA cycles through a lifetime of heavily stigmatizing images about HIV and AIDS. Delgado plays with multiple aesthetics—documentary, horror, comedy—to explore the various relationships he has had with AIDS over the course of his life. 

Imani Harrington, Realms Remix

Through a collage of poetry and archival images, Realms Remix traces memories and sensations of an AIDS past that continue to haunt the present.

David Oscar Harvey, Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck

Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck tackles the disorienting experience of existing with a manageable condition that our present culture insists on representing in terms of its bleak past. Interested in figuring HIV differently, the film presents a series of visual puns merging the iconography of HIV and AIDS with popular symbols of luck. 

Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar, El VIH se enamoró de mi (HIV Fell in Love With Me)

HIV Fell in Love With Me tells the story of a woman with HIV embracing her sexuality and reconnecting with her pleasure. Filmed with an erotic aesthetic, the video reflects a pursuit towards sexual justice and autonomy for women living with HIV.

Nixie, it’s giving

Through home videos, archival footage and textile landscapes, it’s giving explores various forms of family across time. The artist's domestic life is paired with archival video of queer and trans chosen families mirroring small acts of joy, resistance, and sustenance. What does it mean for an HIV+ person, who carries the history and present of the AIDS-crisis in their DNA, to foster new life?

Vasilios Papapitsios, LUCID NIGHTMARE

Visual AIDS is a New York based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. visualaids.org

[homebrewandhypotheticals]

Oh dude, a weresquid transformation would be TERRIFYING! Let me give this a shot...

Picture it: a beautiful mermaid stares transfixed by the moon, eyes glassy from whatever strange magic has sunk its claws into her, when suddenly a flinch crosses her frame. Small, at first, but rapidly she falls into a near seizure, her body trembling and shaking as limbs flail in all directions, her once vacant expression contorting into a look of sheer pain and terror.

Bones snap, skin peels, the gorgeous, jewel-like scales of her lower half cracking and fluttering away in the tide like shards of pottery as thick, oozing tentacles, covered in viscera like a foul parody of afterbirth, form from the carnage of her body. They, too, flail mindlessly, grabbing at the loose piles of flesh and skin, clutching them tightly with jawed suckers, as if seeking some form of morbid comfort.

She attempts to wail, call out for help, but her voice catches in her throat as something attempts to force it's way up and out of her body. Her neck and cheeks bulge and deform as her bones, reduced to shrapnel by her flailing, are expelled from her body, ripping at her limp, tender cartilage and muscle as they go.

After the last of the slurry of marrow and bile pass her lips, she finds her teeth attempt to follow behind them, but stop halfway, dragging her raw cheeks and jaw flesh behind them. Her chattering quickly becomes an ungodly clack as her teeth fuse together into a black, sharpened prism made not for singing the songs she once loved, but for inflicting pain, with all the horrible efficiency a predator requires. The beak clatters dumbly, wordlessly, tasting the air in preparation for the hunt to come.

Doubling over as the final portions of her transformation take hold, her eyes turn upwards to the night sky once more, the lunar surface reflected in the waters around her. Her eyes dilate, and the mermaid that once was there is gone, replaced with a beast that knows nothing but suffering. As her pupils expand far beyond their normal bounds, swelling like bloated ticks into the eyes of a beast of the deep sea, the monster that was once a maiden roars to the sky that cursed her, a gurgle of simple-minded hunger and fury at the grace denied her, as she returns to the waves, seeking a meal.

The Mariana Trench has gained a new killer tonight, and while she will return to something resembling her old self the next morning, the horrors she will commit will haunt her for the rest of her days.

The sea hungers, and no creature, no beast that swims or drifts along its channels, hungers more than the squid.

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

[chorusfm]

Liner Notes (April 27th, 2024)

It’s been a few weeks, but we’re back! This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here. If you’d like this newsletter delivered to your inbox each week (it’s free and available to everyone), you can sign up here. A Few Things * Whew, it’s been a while! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. There have been many family commitments on the weekends, and then two weeks ago, I was out of town on a business trip. It was the first time I’d traveled since the pandemic year, and the trip down and back from Mexico City was filled with every example of why I dislike traveling. Canceled flights, airline chaos, the dreaded SSSS on my boarding pass. It felt like a calamity of errors each way, leading to 12+ hours of travel on both days. Let’s say I’m not a fan. There’s a reason I like working behind a computer in the comfort of my home office. But, I’m back, and the calendar looks much clearer from here on out. So, I hope to get back into a regular weekend writing routine. But, enough about me; there’s a whole lot to cover. * Apple has started allowing game emulators on iOS. The first one I’ve seen is Delta, and it’s pretty wild that it works as well as it does. I downloaded some nostalgia-as-fuck games, tossed them in the Files app, loaded them into Delta, and was playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 on my fricking iPhone. Wild, wild stuff. * I’ve written many times over the last couple of years about FRND CRCL and their most recent pop-punk gem. But I just have to call out this t-shirt. Could there be anything more me? The Friends parody? It’s perfect. Also, the album still rules. In Case You Missed It * ”We Got Older, but We’re Still Young” * South Star Festival Announces Lineup * The Get Up Kids Announce New Tour * The Starting Line Thank Taylor Swift * Update from Adam of Fenix TX * The Menzingers Announce’ Rented World’ Shows * The Starting Line Talk With Variety * Saosin Detail Version 4.0 * Emo’s Not Dead 2025 Cruise Announced * Albums in Stores – Apr 26th, 2024 Music Thoughts * The most significant release of the last couple of weeks is, obviously, the new Taylor Swift album. After some time with it, my thoughts are starting to solidify a bit. It’s good, but it absolutely suffers from its length and overall sameness to a lot of the songs. Too many never quite elevate and instead feel stuck in first gear. In a fun twist of fate it’s not unlike what I thought The 1975 were suffering through for a couple albums. The lack of an editor who can say: let’s take the best batch of songs and hone in on them, workshop them, and make them incredible. Less can be more, and in an era where the biggest music star on the planet is already verging on overexposure, a scalpel was desperately needed on this project as a whole. He says as the album breaks all kinds of records, has seven billion vinyl variants printing money, and is sure to be the best-selling album of the year. And there’s a handful of super solid songs here. “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Down Bad,” and “Imgonnagetyouback” are all standouts for me. The Starting Line reference in “The Black Dog” is an all-timer. The smile on my face hearing that for the first time could have powered a small town with the electricity pouring out of me. * Cold Years’ new album A Different Life came out this week, and they completed an absolute scorcher of a three-album run. Truly one for the ages. They’re doing the whole Gaslight Anthem meets Green Day punk thing as well as anyone in music. This should dominate playlists as the weather starts turning to the summer months. Highly recommended. * I cannot praise Florrie’s upcoming album, The Lost Ones, enough. It is a pitch-perfect pop album. The most recent single, “Kissing in the Cold,” gives a really good feel for where the album is headed. Now, if she would just have a vinyl option that’s not over $60 shipped to the States, that would be excellent. * The new Mariana’s Trench single is a welcome return to form. I didn’t dislike… https://chorus.fm/features/articles/liner-notes-april-27th-2024/

[chaos-and-kromer]

marry on a cross parody called mariana trench

[rafaeladigital]

El mundo de la música folclórica está de luto por la triste noticia del fallecimiento de uno de sus más grandes exponentes, Daniel Toro, a la edad de 82 años. El destacado artista, reconocido por su inigualable talento y su vasto cancionero, dejó un legado imborrable en la música argentina y latinoamericana. Daniel Toro nació el 3 de enero de 1941 en Salta, Argentina. Desde temprana edad, mostró su pasión por la música y, a lo largo de su carrera, compuso alrededor de mil canciones que abarcaron tanto temas amorosos como sociales. Su obra máxima, "Zamba para olvidarte", se convirtió en un clásico indiscutible y ha sido versionada innumerables veces. El talento de Daniel Toro trascendió fronteras y logró conmover a audiencias de distintas generaciones. Sus composiciones románticas, como "Para ir a buscarte", "Mi mariposa triste" y la ya mencionada "Zamba para olvidarte", se convirtieron en himnos que conquistaron los corazones de miles de personas. Pero su música no se limitó solo al ámbito romántico. Daniel Toro también supo dotar de un pulso atractivo a canciones con temáticas testimoniales. Entre ellas, se destacan "Cuando tenga la tierra", que compuso junto a Ariel Petrocelli, así como "Este Cristo americano" y "El antigal", en colaboración con Lito Nieva y Petrocelli. La impresionante obra musical de Daniel Toro fue creada en un período relativamente corto, pero no estuvo exenta de desafíos. Durante la última dictadura cívico-militar en Argentina, su voz fue silenciada a través de la censura, lo que lo llevó a utilizar el seudónimo de Casimiro Cobos. Además, en medio de esa difícil coyuntura política, el artista enfrentó un cáncer de garganta que lo alejó de los escenarios y le hizo perder la voz. A pesar de los obstáculos, Daniel Toro dejó una huella imborrable en la música folclórica argentina. Su música resonó en los corazones de tantos seguidores y su legado perdurará en la memoria colectiva. A través de sus composiciones, logró transmitir emociones y reflexiones profundas sobre la vida, el amor y las realidades sociales de su tiempo. Hoy, acaba de fallecer un grande de la música folclórica: Daniel Toro a sus 82 años. Gran compositor y de una canción que la deben conocer muchos: Zamba para Olvidar. Ya se debe encontrar cantando con Horacio Guarany, Mercedes Sosa y muchos más. Hasta siempre, Daniel. pic.twitter.com/N7Lu0VtsLk— Franco Dari (@Francodari325) May 25, 2023 Su carrera musical comenzó en 1959, formando parte de varios conjuntos locales como Los Tabacaleros, Los Forasteros, Los Viñateros y Los Nombradores. No fue hasta 1966 que decidió embarcarse en una carrera solista, y al año siguiente, en el Festival Nacional de Folclore de Cosquín, recibió el Premio Consagración, que marcó el inicio de su reconocimiento a nivel nacional. A lo largo de los años, Daniel Toro lanzó una serie de álbumes que cosecharon un enorme éxito. Entre ellos se encuentran "El nombrador", "Canciones para mi tierra", "Canciones para mi pueblo", "Un año de amor", "Rondas de amor", "Cuando tenga la tierra", "Retorno al folclore", "Refranero de mi pueblo", "Sueño de trovador", "El Cristo americano", "Zamba para olvidarte", "Engañada" y "Escríbeme una carta". A pesar del paso del tiempo y su larga ausencia de los escenarios, el legado de Daniel Toro ha sido rescatado y valorado. En el documental "El Nombrador" (2021), producido por El Jume, colegas actuales como Teresa Parodi, Víctor Heredia, Nadia Larcher, Abel Pintos, Los Carabajal, Mariana Carrizo y Franco Ramírez brindaron elocuentes testimonios sobre la importancia y el impacto de su música. Incluso artistas de otros géneros, como Ricardo Mollo, Miguel Abuelo y Diego Torres, reconocieron la grandeza de Daniel Toro y se sumaron a rendirle homenaje. Ricardo Mollo interpretó una versión de "Cuando tenga la tierra" en el documental, acompañado por Agustín Carabajal en el bombo y por Nadia Larcher en un recitado. Para él, fue un desafío emocionante y significativo unirse a canciones que lo han acompañado a lo largo de su

vida. En una entrevista, Ricardo Mollo expresó su gratitud y admiración hacia Daniel Toro, destacando su capacidad como compositor y su importancia en la música folclórica. El legado de Daniel Toro trasciende las clasificaciones y géneros musicales, dejando una marca imborrable en la cultura y en el corazón de quienes aprecian la música con profundidad. Daniel Toro, a pocos días de cumplir 80 años, reflexionaba sobre su trayectoria con humildad y satisfacción. Para él, lo importante era haber dejado algo valioso y culturalmente significativo, y no simplemente haber alcanzado la fama. Reconocía que ser número uno no era relevante, ya que la verdadera riqueza estaba en el legado musical que dejaba a su público. Con la partida de Daniel Toro, el mundo de la música folclórica pierde a un maestro y a un referente indiscutible. Su voz y su talento seguirán resonando en cada una de sus canciones, recordándonos su pasión por la música y su compromiso con la cultura. Su legado perdurará en el tiempo, enriqueciendo el patrimonio musical de Argentina y dejando una huella imborrable en el corazón de aquellos que disfrutan de la música con el alma. https://rafaeladigital.com/noticias/fallecio-el-renombrado-artista-folclorico-daniel-toro-a-los-82-anos/?feed_id=1689

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