band kid culture is please dear god can the saxophones play their high notes a little bit quieter my ear drums are splitting in half you sound great guys!! keep it up!!! please never play a single note ever again T-T
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sometimes during marching season, ny band has "sleeping blocks" before saturday rehearsals
HELP this is so funny what. i’m imagining all of u like curled up in a tuba locker or maybe putting up tents at your opening set dots
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It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.
People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.
And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.
If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.
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I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.
It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.
By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.
Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.
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Because I’ve seen some…questionable assumptions, it’s time for a lesson. So gather ‘round and let an ex Catholic educate you on church titles.
The one (most) people seem to get is the pope title. Popes take on a new name when they are appointed, and it’s numbered if someone had the name before. So I’m 90% sure people know Emeritus isn’t their last name. And before rising to the role of anti-pope, they would have had different names. At least I hope people understand that one. Like people weren’t calling him Terzo as a kid.
When speaking of or addressing a Cardinal with something that isn’t an honorific (Eminence or Lordship in Catholic terms), you either use their full name (Cardinal John Paul Smith) or just their LAST name (Cardinal Smith). Unless Tobias is throwing us a curveball on this one, which I highly doubt, Copia is his LAST name.
Imperitor means Commander. Sister Imperator is a twist on the Catholic Mother Superior. Mother Superior is the title given to the head of a religious community or institute. Which was Sister Imperator’s role without a doubt. Imperator was her title, not her name. Thus Frater Imperator is more or less the equivalent to Abbot. His name most definitely not Copia Imperator. His last name was Copia. Then his name was Emeritus IV. He could still use the name Emeritus or he could revert to Copia, based on the rare cases of a pope not dying in the Catholic tradition it’s his choice. But his TITLE is now Frater Imperator, just as his titles were Cardinal and Papa before.
Also, Papal names tend to be localized. So the former use of Zero instead of Nihil when he was first introduced still tracks as being the same name.
The whole ministry is a direct parody of mockery of the Catholic church. If you’re unsure about something just check out what the Catholics are doing then twist it.
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band kid culture is your section bestie picking up fast food at 10pm after a football game and getting lost trying to drive you home </3
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ok dont kill me for this but. i know till is textually supposed to be very gifted and ahead of his peers and all. only character who plays musical instruments etc etc. i just find it very funny that out of all the possibilities. he plays
1) the recorder- the instrument every schoolkid plays in primary school and
2) original songs on the guitar but all hes shown playing is a pop punk song with POWER CHORDS
like...where is the genius....the pizzazz.... bro sjould be shredding.... bro should be pulling some polyphia shit....
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With New Years around the corner, parties and dancing and all that fun stuff is on the agenda. Today, I'm going to unofficially DJ your party/gathering/dancing alone in your room.
This is The Party Zone - A soundtrack sold in the early/mid 90s featuring pop, dance-pop and eurodance songs. If you are old enough to remember the "NOW" or "Kidz Bop" music compilations from the 2000s, this is pretty much the same, except better music. At least to me.
This commercial always aired during USA Network's "Up All Night" show and the mixture of sleazy, neon B-movies and sugary sweet dance music was everything 9-year old me wanted in his life. It was a world I was way too young for, but a world I wanted to be a part of no less. Times change and I never got to experience that level of sleazy living in my adult years, but I have the music so I can pretend I did. Here's the best hits from The Party Zone.
Teena Marie - "Lovergirl"
New Kids On The Block - "You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
Technotronic ft. Ya Kid K - "Move This"
Ready for the World - "Oh Sheila"
SNAP! - "Rhythm is a Dancer"
Wham! - "I'm Your Man"
The Jets - "Crush on You"
Greg Kihn Band - "Jeopardy"
Culture Club - "I'll Tumble 4 Ya"
Hope you young'ns dig these grown folk jams and I hope you grown folks listen and get a smile on your face.
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Calling all folk and/or pop punks!
What are our thoughts on "You Are Who You Hang Out With" by the Front Bottoms?
Not Joking and Emotional personally hit me pretty hard. I wish the album was messier like their older stuff, but over all, I really enjoyed!
Also the beginning of Fake Gold absolutely killed me. If you know, you know.
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