#bittertwee

[clioandhobbes]

Thanks @sideofblog tbh I need to do some listening bc I haven’t heard most of those 🙈.. I’ve used my longest playlist for this but it’s for skiing lol

• the age of consent - new order

• intervention - arcade fire

• life during wartime - talking heads

• one man no city - parquet courts

• サンセット・ロード - reiko takahashi

• welcome to the working week - elvis costello

• the boxer - simon & garfunkel

• boys don’t cry - the cure

• little savage - elvis costello

• I’m so green - can

no pressure tag: @amchcu @amihaunted @kinggizzard @dabblingindissent @bittertwee idk everyone who is still here

thank you for the tag @bigolgay & @autumn-leaves-chasing-breeze <3

shuffle your ON REPEAT playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, tag 10 people:

Vienna - Billy Joel

Trouble - Elvis Presley

Candyman - Christina Aguilera

9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

Ancient dreams in a modern land - Marina

Gimme gimme gimme - Abba

Hit the road jack - Ray Charles

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor - Dvořák

no pressure tags <3 : @heidsworld @changelinq @carnivorousflowers @alder-saan @gwens-dog @h-doodles @taurus-baby-34 @i-have-insane-that-i-am-paper @notinmyvocab @yourlocaldisneyvillain @zephyr-is-tired @fictionalized-lesbian @unicorniusfallapatorius

[socam]

@merriweatherpostpavilion waiting for Spoon and B&S while downing g&t's & j&g's and pork pops

[pablo-neurotic]

bittertwee replied to your post: Dear internet (both actual friends and anonymous...

everything is so terrible it’s hard to even keep track anymore

But at least this is a golden age in terms of streaming video content. 

[joanpeel]

Currently on rotation…thx for tagging @nnvl 🌹

Always interested in what you’re listening to @arugularocks @ivory-gull @jb-blunk @jvtng @pale-interior @bittertwee @secretcommunion @distant-morning @thatsmyleaf ❤️

[planned-planethood]

Tagged by @nothing-to-stop, here’s my mug at a wedding recently in New Hampshire

I’m tagging @stonethrowingdevil, @goddess-particle, @nobodylistenstolucy, @symphonyofmars, and @bittertwee to show their mugs!

[skatalite]

tagged by @ambientangel 🦋

tag 9 people you would like to know more about

last song: moral - involuntary position

last movie: ..........gremlins (it’s xmas time come now)

currently watching: the oblongs

currently reading: outer dark by cormac mccarthy (fun stuff u know)

currently craving: marzipan...and pignoli cookies....

i tag @desertedvault  @cryptcore @stewedangelskins @decemberseve @fourcalendarcafe @pinksoftsoap @hark-sounds @ambientbruh @bittertwee

[kmtam]

@bittertwee is that you?

[hullahbaloo]

I was tagged by @bittertwee to post 10 photos of like a theme (?) so anyway my theme is 2020 I guess haha. These are all photos from the past 4 and a half months.

1. A couple of days ago - going on my daily quarantine walks and trying to social distance as much as possible. Saw this chalk drawing and thought it was interesting. Aliens are real!

2. Last month - got into the idea of baking cuz of you know. I made a focaccia and it wasn’t half bad! But it was not the best it could be. Need to experiment more.

3. Last Month - got this mask! Wanted to replicate the masks worn by Yellow Magic Orchestra but it doesn’t look so good 😅😅. Also attempting a face covering here but I look more like a bandit than anything.

4. Two days before full lockdown - this is when the most surrealistic nightmare vision of what this all meant looked like to me. Plenty of fear and panic. Glad we’ve all mostly calmed down (except for those fuckers clamoring haircuts).

5. Mar 6 - my friend Nikkis birthday. We spent the day in Santa Cruz and it was magical! Loved this number and the paint and just a really beautiful sign.

6. Sometime late Feb - there’s a really beautiful bar called the red room in Santa Cruz. It’s in what used to be a former hotel from the early 20th century. It has that old charm and it’s completely red inside. They decorated for a party and it looked a lot like the Shining.

7. Mid-Feb - this is a little painted mural on the side of the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose. I was getting really into the idea of digital photography using old digital cameras from the early 2000s. Trying to see if I can put Brian Eno’s aesthetic of failure theory to good use artistically.

8. Early Feb - I had a nice day with my friend Jordan in Alviso (in SJ). That part of town looks like something out of the 50s. It is really underdeveloped compared to the rapidly gentifying San Jose. There is a nature preserve right on the edge of Alviso. In there, there is a train track with an active train that you can cross to get to a ghost town called Drawbridge. It’s completely closed to the public and carries a massive $500 fine if you’re caught trespassing. Also the train is dangerous and you can die very easily. So naturally my friend and I wanted to go! But we chickened our. Alviso is pretty tho.

9. Late Jan - Stephens Meat Products sign. I started walking home from the train station back then instead of getting an Uber l. It is 2.5 miles from my house. I’d always pass this sign which is the only remnant left of the business. Neon signs in San Jose are our trademark. We don’t have much but we have that. There was talk of tearing this sign down but the community wanted it to stay put so it is safe I believe. I find it to be lovely but also the patina of time really turns signs like this from garish displays to something having meaning.

10. Jan 1 - my friends and I took a hike this day to celebrate the new decade. We saw this abandoned house and I wanted to check it out but decided otherwise. This day had so much promise like new decade is here, we can do anything and really change the course of our lives. I still believe that but this whole pandemic really is testing that belief.

I am tagging @gatesovheck @hark-sounds and @cerulean-blue but really whoever!

[clioandhobbes]

@lunar-sonority tagged me to post my lock screen and last song played... Mine’s not as cool as hers lol

Lock screen has been this dumb pic for like 3 or 4 yrs now. And I’ve been so busy at work I haven’t listened to music in like 2 weeks so I just threw my (excellent) skiing playlist from this year on shuffle and it’s gifted us a classic banger, my dudes.

Tagging @kinggizzard, @bittertwee, and @grandma-pirate because I trust your music takes and @nicejewishguy because I’m curious about yours :3

[bellsofrhymney]

@catastrofewaitress tagged me to share ten songs i've been listenin to lately! well here they are:

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - the rainbow

talk talk - such a shame

great stuff. i'm gonna tag @hullahbaloo @catharticscream @bittertwee and @tearsarecool

[suitcasefullofmixtapes]

10 Songs

I was tagged by @semperama to post 10 songs I’ve been listening to lately. I’m still working on my backlog of things to listen to from 2017, and I’ve been obsessed with Jonathan Bogart’s 1980s Europop mixes for months so most of these aren’t new songs per se. Perhaps they’re new to you? Links are youtube or bandcamp because spotify linking confused me, but most of these are probably on there too.

1. Alaska y los Pegamoides - “Bailando”. It’s a dance party, just like it says on the tin.

2. Babaganouj - “Hoping That It’s You”. Ooh ooh ooh.

3. Filthy Friends - “Any Kind of Crowd”. The Lady Corin Tucker + jangle.

4. Mercury Girls - “Holly”. Amplify my persistence.

5. Judee Sill - “Jesus Was A Crossmaker”. Sweet silver angel.

6. Lorde - “Green Light”. Yes, still.

7. Martha - “The Winter Fuel Allowance Ineligibility Blues” This song is true in reverse for me; heat is included in my rent but using a window a/c means the electric bill goes waaaay up in summer so you know I love you if the a/c’s on.

8. Tullio de Piscopo - “Stop Bajon (Primavera)” Classic beat like damn.

9. Girl Ray - “The Way We Came Back” Saw them live last month and they were incredible, fantastic range.

10. Monomyth - “Re: Lease Life (Place 2 Go)” Slice of wandering life.

Tagging @red-hot-moon @dyatica @princeofsparkles @katejeevas @bittertwee and anyone else who wants to!

[r0byntn]

on twee

“In 1986, the British music magazine NME released the cassette-only compilation C86, a collection of songs by indie bands from across the UK. The bands represented on that tape — Primal Scream, the Pastels, the Soup Dragons, the Shop Assistants, the Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops — were all young and hungry, and taken together as a whole, they showed that something new was happening. These bands might have taken inspiration from the punk and post-punk explosions, and their thin, lo-fi sound was both an economic necessity and a holdover from that period. But they were interested in sadness and longing and sweet melodies and jangling guitars. They helped usher in a period of hazy, shimmery, heart-on-sleeve underground pop that came to be known as twee. That music helped kickstart underground scenes on both sides of the Atlantic, and pretty soon it became a genre and an aesthetic and then, eventually, a bit of an epithet. In time, it came to apply to bands like Belle And Sebastian who made lush, cinematic music that was connected to those C86 bands in spirit but not in sound.”

I do like this account of “twee.” From Stereogum’s review of Girl Ray’s Earl Grey (out 8/4). @bittertwee, what’s your take?

[pablo-neurotic]

I mean what kind of American would travel to RUSSIA simply because they have an "interest" in Russian language and culture??? Umm, lol, likely story... Clearly such a person would be hiding something shady and/or illegal!

[awesomeanthropology]

Ah!

So my post about grad school got way more posts than I was considering, with varying levels of advice

I don’t want to overwhelm my blog by answering to each individually so I’m just going to respond now to all the ones that I haven’t yet

@tinkenspock , @berzeerkyoutoo , @thetinytiger97 : Thank y’all for your words of encouragement, it means a lot to me. Sometimes it’s easy to get stressed out and worry what you’re doing is wrong, so I’m glad to have the support

@distinguishedangelpirate , @kieliofthemoths , @museumably : Thanks for the interdisciplinary advice, it is really interesting to look at from different perspectives, and it’s giving me ideas for the future!

@tnelms : Those look like great books to start out with! The methods handbook looks especially promising! Thanks

@btdthat : Yeah, I’m finishing up my undergrad here at Texas State University and then I’m going to do a grad school program somewhere else. I haven’t decided where this “somewhere else” is yet, but I know that I can’t stay here since their masters program doesn’t really seem to have what I want

@estfortis : Those both seem like good ways to handle the situation! I will look into both and definitely message you if I need more help!

@heatherinanutshell : Thank you so much for the reading list! I’m totally going to read all these as soon as I can

@bittertwee Most of my professors that I spoke to were like “listen kid, I got my degree in the 80s, I have little to no idea what web anthro is”. Like, they knew that it existed but many told me that it was fairly new and it was going to be difficult to find a prof willing to oversee my research. So maybe it’s simply because Texas State University has an older staff?

[planned-planethood]

@bittertwee

[orangerful]

I thought @bittertwee would appreciate this blast from the past Tim found in his collection, dated 1998