#chelsea lankes

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April comes to an end. The last couple of months have been a bit better for me, at least creatively. I've been able to work on some novel revision, as well as some introspective posts again. And a bit of poetry and short Sims stories. I don't know. It's been nice. These favorites have been nice, too.

A Curse for True Love: So, I didn't love the first half of this book quite as much as the previous two (for a specific reason I won't mention due to spoilers), but the ending was amazing and earned this trilogy as a whole a place in my favorites! Stephanie Garber's world is so enchanting, and I love it so much.

Gnosia: I finally finished this game! I'll admit that towards the end it got kind of frustrating trying to get certain scenarios to occur. But thankfully, I had my bestie by my side, and with the help of a guide, he led me through without spoiling anything. Gnosia is so fun and unique. And I really hope more people will give it a chance.

YouTube Favs: Gnosis's video on the loneliness of Final Fantasy VII, Kirce's videos on The Sims 1, Sarah Key's Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts playthrough compilations, Randalf's Twilight/Moonlight Syndrome explainer videos, Liss the Lass's Sims Stories video.

Music Favs: Feel Me (Selena Gomez), Lights Out (Haerts), Hysteria (Katharine McPhee), Fireworks (Joseph), Something in the Way You Move (Ellie Goulding), Baseline (Chelsea Lankes).

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Chelsea Lankes - There Will Be Blood (Music Video)

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(Chelsea Lankes)

[lowcountry-gothic]

“I just want you here with me Breathing the air you breathe Whisper the words you know I'll never let you go I won't let you go. no So won't you Don't you know I always try to Can't you see it in my eyes All the reasons you are mine Maybe that's why we try Maybe that's why we fight Maybe that's why we give it all to keep this love alive…” 

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Watch "Chelsea Lankes - Ghost (Lyrics) (Dance With The Dead Remix)" on YouTube

I just discovered this song at 3:30 AM, this morning and I really like it. I hope that anyone seeing my blog does too.

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Thanks for the tag! I don't really have an on repeat playlist so this is from my spotify liked songs.

Eight - Sleeping At Last

Crushed - Imagine Dragons

This Mountain - Faouzia

Scott Street - Phoebe Bridgers

Why We Try - Matthew Mayfield feat. Chelsea Lankes

The Lakes - Taylor Swift

Leaves of Yggdrasil - Myrkur

Lyra - Kate Bush

Space Was Cool - Markiplier, The Gregory Brothers

The Force Theme x Main Theme Cover - Samuel Kim

Tagging anyone who's interested!! 🤭

I was tagged by @jessiesjaded. Thank you sis! 🤍

Rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people.

Drowning - Backstreet Boys

In a World Like This - Backstreet Boys

Head Up High - Firewind

Lavender - Avantasia

I Want to Break Free - Queen

Lucky - Bif Naked

The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

Dead Don't Die - Shinedown

I Wanna Get Lost - Rubyhorse

By The Sea - Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Soundtrack

Tagging @ominisss, @esolean, @howominis @wingedwartigers @lanabenikosdoormat @cleverblackcat and anyone else who sees this and would like to join. But no pressure!

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Song of the Day: Ghost

Song of the Day: Ghost - You pass me by and I can feel a distance growing. I'd jump a canyon just to get to where you're going.

Today’s song is Ghost by Chelsea Lankes. Pop. This song is slow, sad and rather melancholy. Still, there is some real beauty in the progression. The way it incorporates the electronic sound is otherworldly/ethereal. They come and go. All these visions come and go.And I keep chasing knowing I will never find them.  While this is much slower than my usual choices, it sticks out as…

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Home Chelsea Lankes

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Chelsea Lankes - Easy

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This month was very unpredictable. Lots of ups and downs. Emotions all over the place. Nearly always exhausted. And yet I've also been very motivated and productive. Writing is going well. And these favorites have been inspiring me.

Zero Escape: Now that I've finally gotten through all of the games, I've been watching a lot of analysis videos on this mind-bending series I love!

Palia: The new update is here, and I am still loving this game. It's also on Steam now! Yes, this game is unfinished. Yes, it has bugs. But this world and these characters feel like home to me. Please consider giving it a chance if it sounds interesting to you. It's free, and it's only going to get better and better. I'm excited to see what's to come!

Sims 2: I've been incorporating more storytelling in my usual gameplay posts, and I've been loving it. Simblr has been a big part of my creative inspiration lately. Over the last six months or so, it has really helped me get back in touch with my desire to create.

Music Favs: Underneath (Rosi Golan), Secret (Chelsea Lankes), Cold Front (Laura Welsh), More Alive Than Dead (Joseph), Classic (The Knocks & Powers), Oh My What a Fine Day (Behind Sapphire), The Writer (Ellie Goulding), Still in Love Song (The Stills), Dots (Woodes), Streetlight (Data Romance).

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Some of our favorite emerging female pop talents of the past couple of years are making our Friday exceptionally good by making their long awaited return with new singles today. Nashville by way of Texas singer songwriter Chelsea Lankes is one such artist. She comes off of her year long hiatus with Matches, which marries dark warbling, glitchy quivering electronica with infectious moody poignant pop. Matches was inspired by a tumultuous split with an unfaithful ex-beau. Chelsea Lankes reflects on the moment her relationship dissolved into “ashes” following his betrayal on the glossy churning song. Matches simmers and burns restlessly, lead by Chelsea Lankes’ beautifully fulgent vocals. If any voice can evoke the image of a phoenix rising from ashes, it’s Chelsea’s. Re-visit her self-titled EP and stream her prior singles on Soundcloud, here.

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Nashville : June 2017

This recent trip to Nashville was easily one of the top two vacations of my life. Since there are so many memories I want to hold on to, I decided to write them all down.. Early morning on Tuesday June 13th we headed out of Columbus. On our way down we stopped by Chik-fil-A, of course, and then at Dinosaur World in Kentucky. They have 150 dinosaur statues set up throughout their wooded park and allow dogs. It was the perfect place to stretch our legs for a bit before the final leg to Nashville. We got into Nashville around noon. It was too early to check into our airbnb so we headed downtown to the farmers market and bicentennial park. We let Samson cool his feet in the Rivers of Tennessee fountain park while we waited for our Bella Nova pizza. Then sat in the shade and ate lunch. After that we walked around the park seeing the Court of 3 Stars and Bell Carillon. We walked down the Pathway of History stopping to see their World War II Memorial and Statehood Memorial over the McNarry Spring. Next we killed time by driving around the east side, locating some spots we knew we'd be visiting and finding some iconic Nashville murals. We also stopped into Project 615, a clothing store in the Fatherland District. We bought each other a Nashville tee, since the traditional two year wedding anniversary gift is cotton. The girl working in the shop was so nice. She gave Samson treats and gave us 615 stickers. She also suggested we check out the pet shop a few doors down so we did. Samson had his fill of treat samples and we purchased him the most adorable rain poncho (even though it never ended up raining when he was out of the house, haha). Our airbnb was so cute. It's was a remodeled upstairs loft space near Eastwood. It was so close to everywhere we were going. My favorite feature was that we were able to leave Samson home alone when we went out to dinner or a show. (most dog friendly hotels won't let you leave dogs unattended in rooms FYI). Once we settled into the house we decided to just run out real quick and bring some dinner back to the loft. We decided on Dino's which was just 5 mins from us. Dino's is a serious hole in the wall but Chelsea Lankes swears by their burgers. Jerry and I agree, they were so good! Wednesday morning we woke up at the crack of dawn ready to start exploring the city. Our first stop was in the Gulch to find the #WhatLiftsYou wings. We then got some refreshing drinks from Starbucks to try and combat the already sweltering heat. We parked in Hillsboro and got some pastries from Provence Breads & Cafe. Everything we tried from there was delicious. They even gave us a free pastry for choosing them over a chain bakery. Hillsboro is such a great area full of local restaurants and cute shops. From there we walked over the Fannie Mae Dees Park in hopes of seeing the Dragon Statue but it was currently being repainted. But we carried on and traveled over to Love Circle. It's a large hill that has great views of downtown and the surrounding hills. At this point we were really second guessing our choice of this trek on such a hot day but since we were halfway through we carried on. We made our way up to Centennial Park. There was a great fountain right where near we entered which Samson loved walking through. Then we took a nice long rest on a bench swing in the shade. As we walked towards the Parthenon I bought some lemonade from the cutest little boy collecting donations for his friend at Children's. It was so refreshing on such a hot day. After Centennial we crossed through Vanderbilt campus to get back to Hillsboro. While passing by the football stadium we noticed the tunnel was actually open so Jerry walked onto the field. Once back in Hillsboro we got a patio table at Fido and had some delicious sandwiches for lunch. That evening, if you can believe it, Jerry and I got the amazing opportunity to meet and hang out with THE Chelsea Lankes. We've been such fans of her music for years. It's was indescribable to chat her up like a friend. We met at Barista Parlor in the Gulch and she bought us all a round of iced coffees. Chelsea and I had a bourbon vanilla iced coffee while Jerry had a caramel whiskey. We talked about mine and Jerry's trips to Nashville, Chelsea's time in LA, relationships, our jobs, dogs, how people don't know how to pronounce Lankes, true crime pod casts, long term goals, family and Chelsea's new music. At one point Chelsea checked her phone and said "it's 6:15" and Jerry and I both died, haha. She invited us out to her car to listen to some demos of some of her new songs which was seriously amazing. Every one she played for us was bangin', we can't wait for her to release the singles this summer. While listening, Julian pulled up. They're seriously so cute together. She got out of the car and they started dancing in the street. Jules climbed in the backseat with me and when Chelsea skipped to the next song he said "why'd you turn that off? it's about us cuddling". So cute. We snapped a quick photo together and had Chelsea sign our vinyls before she had to run off to hot yoga. At her suggestion, Jerry and I quickly checked out a roof bar at a nearby hotel and caught some great sunset views of downtown Nashville. After that Jerry and I being true tourists hit South Broadway. We grabbed a quick bite of hotdogs from a street vendor while we meandered through souvenir shops and listened to live music. We of course had to stop at Savannah's Candy Kitchen to load up on chocolate covered marsh mellows, rice krispy treats, candied apples and fudge. We stopped by Luigi's for a drink at the bar and a pizza to go. On the way back to the car we passed by the Country Music Hall of Fame to take a pic with the TS Education sign bc Taylor Swift owns my ass. So then we went back to our loft for the night. It was much later/darker than it had been the night before when we took Samson for his walk. The alley behind our house was basically pitch black. But honestly it was alright because as we were also smoking up ya feel. So we're walking and we turn up onto a main street. It was a little more lit but still pretty dark and we, ourselves, were feeling pretty lit. As we're walking up the street I see something just sitting there. At first I thought it was a rabbit because it wasn't moving. Then as we got closer I could tell it was just staring at us even though I couldn't see it's face, which is always a freaky feeling. For a second I thought it might be an opossum or a raccoon, both which would have freaked me the fuck out. As we got a little closer we realized it was just a cat and literally as we were realizing this we hear the nastiest low gurgling growl coming from a yard to our right. We look over and the whole yard and house are pitch black. We can only see a small white picket fence and hear this dog that sounds like it wants to kill us. So we're fucked up, already a little freaked out from the cat and now pretty sure some beefy dog is gonna lunge over this small ass fence and try to eat us. We power walked our asses out of that street as fast as we could! It was seriously the craziest experience! To update, we drove by that house like three more times trying to find out what breed of dog that was and how it was secured in that yard but never saw a dog there. Thursday morning, our anniversary, we woke up and took Samson with us to South Broadway to walk the John Seigenthaler pedestrian bridge, which Samson shit on haha. We saw some great views of the Titan's stadium and of the downtown skyline. Afterwards Jerry and I went out to breakfast at Fenwick's 300. Chelsea had recommended it because Julian works the bar there. It was a very cool restaurant. Their bar top was made from a lane from a bowling alley that had previously been in that location. The food was amazing. We toasted to our anniversary with some mimosas. Jerry got breakfast stir fry while I went with basic eggs, bacon and toast. We also shared the amazing french toast. It was great to chat up Julian. We mostly talked about dogs. I tried to talk him out of wanting a husky but I don't think it took. We were showing him a picture of Samson when another server brought our food. Julian elbowed her, "look that's Samson" and after briefly looking she responded, "uh huh, want some hot sauce?" Jerry and I thought it was too funny. We had planned to walk around 12 South for a bit after breakfast but 1) we'd misjudged our time and had a standing appointment at noon and 2) it had started raining. We decided to just drive through 12S to see if Amelia's flower truck was still there or if they'd left due to the downpour. Luckily, they were! We figured we better buy some flowers now rather than track them down again later. By this time the rain was really coming down. We maneuvered around swept away garbage cans to park on a side street. Jerry had to jump over a 3+ foot river flowing down the gutter to bring the umbrella around for me. Even with that, we were soaked through by the time we made it up to the truck. But I didn't mind. The flowers were so lovely. They traveled well and they're still giving off an amazing perfume in our bedroom. At noon we had an appointment at Gold Club Electric to get our matching 615 tattoos. It was so special to us to get the tats on 615 in the 615. The guys at the shop were so nice. Our artist chatted us up about Columbus, he used to live in Cleveland. The tattoos went so easy and quick. Once done the employees even helped us take an awesome pic of Jerry and I holding hands while showing off our matching tats. We then went just around the corner to Soda Parlor, probably one of the cutest places in town. They're known for their killer floats made from craft sodas and local ice cream. They're all topped with whipped cream and sprinkles and served in a Mason jar. I ordered the Freakin' Fosters which was a mix of Mike's vanilla ice cream and Sprecher's Orange Dream soda. Jerry got the All Hail Starstream with vanilla ice cream and Maine Root Mexicane Cola. They were both so delicious. Another very cool feature about the Soda Parlor is that they have a free arcade. I had to play TMNT. I just wish the game let me play as Michelangelo instead of Leonardo, haha, but I still kicked ass. Since the rain had stopped and we had some time to kill we decided to head back to 12 South and actually walk around. (We stopped by the airbnb to pick up Samson and change since we were still a little damp and the temp had dropped. When we walked in the house I asked Samson if he wanted to smell my Amelia's flowers. He did... and then tried to eat them. Haha, still laughing about that.) Walking around 12 South we mostly window shopped. But we did find the I Believe in Nashville mural as well as a few others. We never did find the "make music, not war" mural but that just means we'll have to go back. We also stopped into Five Daughter's Bakery. The donuts are expensive but seriously worth it. What I would give for a chocolate sea salt donut right now ladies. Later that evening we had tickets for the Bluebird Cafe. It's an iconic listening room in Nashville. Artists such as Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift were discovered there. We were ecstatic to get tickets since there are only about 60 seats able to be reserved. Luckily I was able get two tickets are soon as they went on sale. As for the show, I wish I could put into words how amazing it was. The artists, David Seger, JP Williams, Darryl Macquarrie, and Jeremy Busser were so personable. They joked with the crowd, told the stories that influenced their songs and played an amazing set. It's honestly a surreal experience and I'd recommend it to everyone. Friday was our last morning in Nashville. We didn't have to check out until noon so we decided to hit Shelby Park, a metro park right near our airbnb. We decided to walk around Sevier Lake. When we pulled up the parking lot was full of sleeping ducks and geese. I got out of the car and they literally came rushing over quacking and honking. Honestly, so sad I didn't have any duck feed on me. Walking around the lake we saw a man feeding the squirrels, lots of turtles and water birds. It was such a chill area of people just hanging out and fishing. My favorite part was a huge willow on the south end of the lake, so dreamy. We also hopped over to the Shelby Dog Park so Samson could run loose for a bit. After that we packed up the car to head home. Our last stop on our way out of Nashville was Consider the WLDFLWRS, a jewelry store that's owned by Emily (the wife of Ben who is the musical talents behind My Red + Blue). I've been following the shop's instagram and I love their pieces. Jerry bought me a small pendant with an H stamped into it. I adore it. The girl working the shop, Hannah, was so sweet. She loved meeting Samson and told us about her new pup Dolly. We got to chatting about how I knew about the store. Hannah mentioned that if I liked Ben's music I should check out Yøuth (aka Chelsea's boyfriend Julian). Turns out Julian was in Hannah's wedding and Chelsea is one of her very good friends! Nashville is such an amazing city, it's really like a big town. I cannot wait to go back xxx

[trans4rctic]

falling in love ; bangchan

concept: yours + chris' songs

lullaby ; got7

sticky ; the maine

turn ; the wombats

stop! ; upsahl

every minute ; eric saade

babe ; carly paige

secret ; chelsea lankes

like you like that ; l devine

blinding lights ; the naked and famous

ease your mind ; joan

insomniac ; dreamers

blindsided ; the new coast

10k summer nights ; eighty ninety

crazy in love ; oh wonder

losing you ; wonho

playlist available here

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Rules: spell out your url with song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url. tagged by the wonderfully sweet @firemedicdiaz  💞 orange sky // kate cunning  until you come back to me (that’s what i’m gonna do) // stevie wonder true blue // madonna rush // lewis capaldi featuring jessie reyez underneath the sycamore // death can for cutie nature feels // frank ocean never ending // rihanna it ain’t over ‘til it’s over // lenny kravitz never knock // kevin garett  ghost // chelsea lankes together again // janet jackson heaven knows // donna summer end up with you // carrie underwood don’t go knockin’ on my door // britney spears (listening to this right now!) after tonight // justin nozuka rhiannon // fleetwood mac know you // lauren ackie if i tag you, please don’t feel pressured to do this!  @jokimmi @sonseulsoleil @pinkypurse @hawaiianpinapplepizza @mrarcadeheart @diazchristopher @ipleiade @eddiediazisascorpio @kitkatpancakestack @lesbiandiaz @lesbianlizzie @demisexualeddiediaz @evnbuckly @cyllaeth @beaarthurs @bi-as-folks @maygranted @agentmarymargaretskitz (tagged one more mutual for good luck :P)