#The High Water Marks

[bandcampsnoop]

6/11/24.

There's no shame in Teenage Fanclub worship. They engaged in Big Star worship and so on. I can't seem to get enough of bands who have their own take on the guitar centric power pop peddled by early Teenage Fanclub releases.

Montreal's Laughing must love the Fannies, and I Was A King. They must. They probably love Dinosaur Jr. and The High Water Marks too.

Celluloid Lunch Records (also based in Montreal) is releasing this gem that was mastered by Mikey Young.

[laszonasabisales]

The High Water Marks - Your Next Wolf

[yellowsnow77]

The High Water Marks - Your Next Wolf

The High Water Marks se han convertido en un valor seguro para cualquier amante del buen pop de guitarras. Desde que volvieron en 2020 con ‘Ecstasy Rhymes’, un estupendo trabajo que entró entre lo mejor de ese año, no han parado de darnos alegrías a todos los que disfrutamos de este tipo de música. Y es que, el grupo formado por Hilarie Sidney, que como todos sabréis, militaba en The Apples in…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Odyssey would have been a lot shorter if Odysseus gave the Cyclops weed instead of wine.

[herbalnature]

Strolling through a flooded St. Mark's Square feels surreal, with Venetians wading through the water like it's just another day. The historic architecture stands unfazed, a testament to Venice's timeless charm amid nature's whims.

[puppppppppy]

object permanence so bad I have to reread old messages for my brain to go ‘oh yeahhhh I care them’

[pansyfemme]

im entirely convinced they rerecorded this because they saw some weirdo in massachusetts listened to that song like 500 times this year

[tilbageidanmark]

Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister delivers a message about climate change, November 11, 2021. This used to be dry land.

[bandcampsnoop]

10/29/24.

Mike Snowden (Louisville, Kentucky) has a definite ear and knack for beautiful power pop. Just listen to "In Landscape", his first physical release (in a 11 year recording career) - I can hear Matthew Sweet, Game Theory, and Eugene McGuinness.

Snowden's Bandcamp descriptor mentions Big Star, Cheap Trick and the Elephant 6 collective.

This appears to be self-released. I looked up Mike Snowden on Discogs and found one who played with The High Water Marks. I'm guessing this is that Mike Snowden.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Roxy: mommy i wanna eat microalastics :D

Rose: Good news honey were in a first world country. It’s in everything.

[pussyhoundspock]

Jinx and ekko you are everything to me

[smile-files]

we have to paint with novel materials for art class... so i may or may not be doing a bit of alchemy with my meds...

[chiropteracupola]

we ran out of desks so today I am climbing into the windowsill of the campus's oldest building to use it for a chair

[bestworstcase]

All things considered, Salem having millions of years wandering around in a haze was probably not necessarily a bad thing.

Because as much as her situation might have sucked, it at least would have given her time to process and think about things, to try to reach some kind of stable state.

Not a GREAT state of mind, but a stable state.

By contrast Ozma kinda just got thrown into the deep end of things, and his zealotry combined with all of the doubts, confusion, and basically everything about the God of Light...

i mean. i would imagine she spent a considerable amount of that time not at all lucid; people famously do not cope well with solitary isolation even over a period of weeks, and salem was profoundly traumatized even before she became the sole survivor of a worldwide genocide and was then left completely alone for millions of years.

i think the only reason she’s sane now is she also had, by virtue of being immortal, quite probably thousands of years of being around people again—even if at a remove, as i’ve noted before, the paved road to her doorstep implies that she was in regular peaceful contact with people for quite some time—and thus had time to recover, or at least get to a point where she could function by the time ozma came back.

(something to consider too is like—how much of what ozma perceived or suspected as being lies or secret-keeping was actually just salem not being able to coherently tell him what happened, between it being millions of years ago and separated from the present by a huge span of time during which the endless isolation was fucking with her mind? like. even in the present she doesn’t talk very much, and if 6.4 is any indication her occasional grandiose speeches™️ take a lot out of her, emotionally. add in the part where she’s spent the last few thousand years not contesting ozma’s narrative at all and the way she emotionally shuts down when ruby upsets her and yang tries to provoke her… and just how bad she is as explaining herself when she does try (for cinder, in v5) because she talks in circles around what she means… like. i do strongly get the impression that she finds articulating what’s in her head to be pretty difficult in general; every time a conversation turns on her in a direction she didn’t Prepare a Speech for she at best goes 😐 and stops talking and at worst jabs at the other person’s emotional vulnerabilities to make them stop talking, or when that fails with cinder resorts to threats.)

(<- this is why i don’t get the master manipulator angle with her at all; she’s manipulative but she’s also remarkably bad at it despite how old she is, and that’s because she seems to rely pretty heavily on scripts to communicate. and that’s how we get situations like cinder winning the power struggle in v8.)

anyway i really think most of her serious Introspection and Processing of what happened to her and what she wants probably began during the ozlem kingdom when she had like. close relationships and a reason to live, and subsequently the inescapable threat of living through a second extinction to focus on. prior to that i figure that at most she clung to 1. the gods are monsters, and 2. she does not deserve the suffering they inflicted on her.

[fictionadventurer]

Yuletide on AO3 is pretty much the only time I read fanfic. It's become a bit of a Boxing Day tradition, and early impressions from this year's list are justifying it. This is where you get the really fun and creative and silly little stories from extremely niche fandoms. I've barely looked and already found Tolkien/"The Moon Is Haunted" crossover fic. Multiple cute-looking Uncle Gard/Cornelia fics. You just can't get stories like this so conveniently anywhere else.