#disco danube

[budapestbug]

Buda Castle Garden Bazaar

The Buda Castle Garden Bazaar may suggest a collection of shops or some kind of market of the Royal Palace, but it has never been one, only in its name. In fact, the Bazaar could be more properly called a Cultural Palace with an Ornamental Garden south of the Buda Castle, covering the slopes and offering a beautiful entrance to the royal complex from the riverbank by the Danube. The garden and its buildings were built in the late 19th century (1875 – 1883) based on the plans of one of Hungary’s leading architects Miklos Ybl. Yb also designed other top Budapest attractions like the Renaissance Revival features of the originally Classicist St Stephen’s Basilica, the Corvinus University along the river Danube (right next to the Budapest Great Market Hall), the Hungarian Opera House on Andrassy Avenue, and a dozen more palaces all over Budapest.

Between WW2 and the 1980s the Buda Castle Garden Bazaar was turned into a youth centre called the Youth Park to offer a controlled and decent entertainment venue for the youth of Hungary, who were to be raised with Communist values (but the youth decided otherwise, especially in 1968 in the year of the Prague Spring).

Until 1984 the Buda Castle Garden Bazaar functioned as an open air disco and concert venue, a hallmark of the communist era.

Today it is more like an art venue for exhibitions, concerts, dance shows, guided tours, film screenings in its cinema, as well as featuring a lovely flower garden and park suitable for proposals and weddings.

[sunskate]

Oh, thank goodness Marjo can safely compete. It would have been devastating for them to have waited this long for a Worlds debut and then have to miss a home event. On the subject of the rhythm dance...mashing rhythms together didn't always work back in the days of the short dance. The 2011 Tango/Waltzes were not good and most of the 2013 Polka/Waltzes weren't much better. Not all rhythms go together as well as cha cha/rumba and quickstep/foxtrot because those two pairings literally share the same rhythms but at different speeds! But I thought they were really getting somewhere with the themes at the end of the last quad. Broadway with Finnstep and Street with Midnight Blues allowed for a range of directions and varied music choices while still retaining key point requirements. Sure some of the choices were tacky but it's ice dance, tacky is unavoidable. But there were also many excellent, memorable, diverse, cohesive programs. The pattern matched well with the theme. But jamming a Samba into an 80s theme was never going to work because there's no correlation between the two. They could've just keep going in the same vein as last quad...themes like 'movies' paired with the Golden Waltz (it would allow everything from Fred & Ginger to Mary Poppins to La La Land to Batman to Harry Potter to Sweeney Todd to The Godfather... and that's just off the top of my head, it's hard to find a movie soundtrack that DOESN'T have a waltz), '21st century' with the Ravensburger Waltz (tons of modern pop and soft rock is written in waltz timing), 'folk' or 'national dance of the country you represent' with Yankee Polka would be great fun. That way teams still learn compulsories but audiences wouldn't have to sit through 3 hours of everyone dancing like they're in Vienna in 1889 to the same Blue Danube waltz music. Something authentic like the Kerrs' Scottish dance would be much more likely to go viral today than people trying to pop and lock to Turn Down For What. The obvious answer to the question of how to expand dance outside the narrow range of ballroom/latin seems to me to be...create more compulsories? Hire Scott and Madison and Marie France and Carol Lane and Barbara Fuser-Poli to create jazz/urban/disco/rock/contemporary patterns that could then far more easily be paired with a theme like 80s.

Sorry for the very long rant! It's just frustrating to me that in 2020-2022 they seemed to finally hit on the perfect balance of a RD that combined the more audience friendly aspects of the old original dances with the technical requirements necessary for credibility under IJS while maintaining the foundations of the sport with the pattern, and after cracking the code they're ditching it instead of expanding it. I don't get it.

those seasons, there was still grumbling that the pattern was broken up, including from me lol but you're right, there wasn't a jarring mismatch. there are so many better ideas than dismantling it altogether like they seem intent on doing

[lookninjas]

So here's the thing: The poll isn't over, and I have to go to work in an hour. I should NOT be going to work in an hour, but I am, and regardless of how I personally feel about that particular situation, it is not going to stop me from sharing the disco.

Also, I really just don't think the numbers are going to change that much in the amount of time we've got left, so fuck it.

Here we gooooo:

It's a shame this Furious Five track remains so relevant. (3%) -- "It's a Shame (Mt. Airy Groove)," Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Getting down on the floor Viennese style. (3.4%) -- "The Blue Danube Hustle -- Part 1," Rice and Beans Orchestra

Riding that future nostalgia wave with the hottest couple around. (4.6%) -- "The Wave," LION BABE ft. Leikeli47

What's my sign? Oh, it's a mirror ball. (4.9%) -- "Tutta Sola," Corine feat. Pino D'Angiò

It's always Bollywood Cocktail Disco Hour somewhere. (5.4%) "Aap Jaisa Koi," Nazia Hassan, Feroz Khan

No jokes here, just the Boss, the Big Man, and the goddamn Queen of Disco. (6.9%) -- "Protection," Donna Summer

The day Miss Mercedes Jones burned down the McKinley choir room. (7.4%) -- "Disco Inferno," Glee Cast

Love is the new metal, and it's fly as hell. (8.5%) -- "Fly," Chicano Batman

Let the spirit of 90s house remixes never die in me. (10.8%) -- "渚にまつわるエトセトラ (TAKE ME TO THE DISCO)," Puffy AmiYumi

When the Queen of Funk enters the room, you get up and you dance to her beat. (11%) -- "Like Sugar," Chaka Khan

Seven aching daddies agree: this mix of postpunk and disco is a banger. (13.6%) -- "Mammoth," Interpol

It's gay music, as in it's a song about eating girls out. (20.3%) -- "Lunch," Billie Eilish

And we are tagging: @madfairy, @pikminplaya, @james-the-idiot, @childoffantasy, @watcherofeternalflame, @missvulpix212, @bre-kachu, @agentcarmillakarnstein, @thedreadpiratecam, @armageddon-eden, @tired-masochist, @themaybewoman, @wannabemylover, @ibelieveinturtles, @hystericblue, @brionne, @sucre-princesse, @salty-seasick, @vagueconfusion, @suffusionofyellow, @abstractlime, @chickletgirl, @books-over-people.

Lest we forget:

BONUS EXTENDED PLAYLIST

'Cause you can never have enough disco.

Okay, have fun, I'm going to get ready for work, I guess.

(image from: Font generator. Never catch me not doing my attribution when required.)

DISCO.

Anyway, pick a song from a bad description. You do not have to recognize the song that you choose (although I have certain expectations of my Glee fans, I won't lie). Go from the vibes. Whatever seems funkiest, or funniest, or whatever floats your boat.

At the end of the week, I will make the poll into a playlist, from the song with the lowest amount of votes to the song with the highest amount of votes. If you would like to hear the playlist, leave a comment or put it in your reblog and I will tag you when the playlist goes up. If you really want to know what a particular song is, shoot me an ask and I will answer.

And please reblog the post! Inflict the disco on your friends and followers. They'll thank you for it.

See you in a week, and remember -- stay groovy.

[aurcls]

aurel hohenzollern decided to cosplay a disco ball this time ! he came arm in arm with none other than jelani mwezi — aurel had, after all, checked off the +1 box on the invitation. 

the crown prince posted about the evening on social media expressing his gratitude to the croÿs and the new couple for caring about such an important environmental issue. the danube is an important german river as well and the hohenzollerns are glad to see someone taking action !

[shiny-parsnips]

>music asks

2, 5, 6, 15 pls and ty 😍

Hiii thank you for asking bae 🤲🤲

2: Ot but like I always forget what my all time favorites are 💀 Like I’ll be like omg this song is so good it’s my all time fave and then I forget what it is 💀💀 I should really be writing this shit down oops 💀💀💀 For me it’s a tie between Liebestraum No. 3 by Liszt and Italian Polka by Rachmaninov. Both pieces are so pretty in different ways it’s incredible. Liebestraum lirerally sounds like falling in love, and like watching someone play it is so 😧like omg how did you do thatttt 😧😧😧 Liszt is like a god tier composer imo. Italian Polka is so good in a way that’s like two different pieces coming together, fighting to like be the center of the piece. It’s actually really really cool and both the melodies are so beautiful 🙏🙏 and again it’s one of those pieces that are like omg how are you playing this rn that’s literally so crazy looking

5: I haven’t been on a road trip in like 6 years but 💀 Probably Tainted Love, that song is so fun to sing, especially with a lot of people. Or I mean... a group of friends. A lot of people makes it sound like I’m in a car with like 20 other people uhm 💀

6: If we’re talking melody-wise, a classical piece like Liebestraum or Minute Waltz by Chopin is great, or any classical piece for that matter. There’s a really nice piano cover of The Blue Danube by Strauss, I definitely recommend that too (The orchestra ver. is also really good as well.) If we’re talking like uhhhhh lyrics-wise definitely something by Nirvana or Beck. They always inspire me to write like poems and shit. Dead Kennedys also have great lyrics that make me wanna like rant about like... whatever tf they be talking about in the song, whether it be like a scathing satirical piece criticizing politicians, making fun of capitalist government, or literally going crazy (/pos).

15: Oh god where to begin 💀💀 Telephone Line by Electric Light Orchestra is such a banger I’ve been listening to it a lot lately it’s so pretty aough 😭😭 The pre-chorus is so nice to listen to as well 🙏🙏🙏 When Ya Get Drafted by Dead Kennedys is so so fun love to jump around and go crazy to it 🤞🤞 Girl by Beck is great too, love it a lot. We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now is so funny (also by Dead Kennedys.) Touch Me by The Doors, From a Mountain in the Middle of the Cabins by Panic! at the Disco (ik but Pretty. Odd. is such a great album Ryan Ross supremacy 🙏), The Alternative Polka by Weird Al, Breakfast in America by Supertramp, etc, etc. I could literally go on and on about all the songs I love to death but I guess I’ll save that for another time 🤞

Love you Kolva 🙏🙏

[popubuqu]

Travel Guide To Slavyansk And Bratislava

https://ja.ivisa.com/slovakia-etias

The beautiful yet fascinating country of Slovakia as well as the stunning Lake Vitai as well, Slovakia is becoming a favourite tourist destination among the tourists. It is among the finest tourist places in Europe, with plenty of amazing landscapes, magnificent buildings and quaint, traditional villages. From the initial days of your trip to this delightful tourist spot you will be able to see the splendid country homes, exquisite castles and monasteries. In order to research more about the attractions and places in Slovakia one can choose the assistance of the online travel channels Slovakia etias.

If you also want to see all the beautiful websites and attractions of this beautiful country of Slovakia but are looking out for a holiday visa, then now it's the ideal time to organize your trip to this tropical tourist spot. There are many airlines that offer cheap flights to cities such as Bratislava, Kranjska, Braganja, Cerkno, Prahova, Sawaslova, Cerkno, Jeju Island, Saarland and Vrance. Airlines Offering low cost flights to cities like Bratislava, Kranjska, Braganja, Cerkno, Sawaslova, Cerkno, Jeju Island, Saarland and Vrance are Aeroflot, Tajik Airlines, United Airlines, Lufthansa Airlines and budget airlines such as Ryanair, EasyJet and Singapore Airlines. With the support of an online travel map you can reserve cheap flights to at least one of these cities out of any region of the world. So, with the assistance of an online Slovakia visa or overseas travel card you can easily reach the areas in south eastern Slovakia.

One of the most popular tourist places in Slovakia is the famed city of Bratislava. It has some historic monuments and buildings and also has some wonderful tourist spots. Bratislava is the Capital City of Slovakia and is located on the river Danube. There are some excellent restaurants, pubs, bars, discos, lounges and other tourist attractions in Bratislava. The beautiful Baroque Thematic Church, St. Nicholas Church, National Gallery, Town Hall, St. Michael Church, Cathedral and Palace are some of the important tourist attractions on the planet. In the summertime, the beautiful Baroque Waterfall and Night Fountains are an extra attraction.

Another very lovely and amazing tourist place is Miereslavka. It's a region of immense all-natural beauty and also the most picturesque spot in all Central Eastern Europe. It is also one of the main industrial facilities in Eastern Europe. Miereslavka is home to numerous exquisite hotels, resorts, guest houses, bars and clubs as well as the world's only UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Grozet Island. The towns are mostly cities which have an old world appeal and offer you a simple stay with various bed and breakfast inns and tasty local dishes. Should you would like to find the real culture and nature of the area, you should go for hiking and camping tours.

If you're visiting Slavyansk or Leningrad you also need to think about a visit to Bratislava. Bratislava is a historical city and the beautiful Cathedral of St. Nicholas is the largest building in the city. The Cathedral is made from centuries-old wooden structures. You will also find St. Nicholas' Church, St. Nicholas' Cathedral and St. Peter's Church here too.

A must see and explore while in Sofia or Bratislava is the Modern Art and Architecture museum. Here you may see the best of modern Russian art and design. Additionally, there are some fine museums in Bratislava and other cities of Slovakia. The Silesian castle is just another beautiful place to visit. The Castle was destroyed during the World War II but was rebuilt to its former beauty and grandeur. This castle is a National treasure and the perspective from inside is outstanding.

[imagine-organization-xiii]

Everyone's favorite genre of music. Bonus if you make playlists for them all.

I’ve already made so many playlists, so I’m going to make them a playlist SPECIFICALLY with their favorite type of music

Masterlist 1/Masterlist 2/Coming Soon List

Buy me a coffee here!

Here’s another favorite music post where it pretty much describes their favorite music.

Xemnas

Favorite Genre: Classical

Heifetz-Beethoven Romance No. 2 in F Major (Op. 50)

Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz

Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite - Waltz

Xigbar

Favorite Genre: Classic Rock (particularly 70s and 80s Rock)

Another One Bites the Dust by Queen

Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard

Don’t Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones

Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith

Xaldin

Favorite Genre: 50s and 60s Rock n’ Roll

Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry

Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley

Let’s Twist Again by Chubby Checker

Shake, Rattle, and Roll by Billy Haley & His Comets

Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis

Vexen

Favorite Genre: Country

I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash

Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker

Radio and the Rain by Chris Young

Meant to Be by Florida George Line and Bebe Rexha

Mexico by Carrie Underwood

Lexaeus

Favorite Genre: Pop/Funk/Glam Rock

Starman by David Bowie

Rocket Man by Elton John

Roll Over Beethoven by Electric Light Orchestra

Ballroom Blitz by The Sweet

Dyna-Mite by Mud

Zexion

Favorite Genre: Alt-Rock/Emo

Misery Business by Paramore

Miss Jackson by Panic! at the Disco

All Around Me by Flyleaf

Savior by Rise Against

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

Saix

Favorite Genre: Punk Rock

White Riot by The Clash

Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash

Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols

I Wanna Be Sedated by Ramones

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

Axel

Favorite Genre: Pop

Burnin’ Up by the Jonas Brothers

Toxic by Britney Spears

It’s Gonna Be Me by the Backstreet Boys

Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani

Wannabe by the Spice Girls

Demyx

Favorite Genre: 80s Pop

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham!

Like A Prayer by Madonna

Africa by Toto

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler

I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston

Luxord

Favorite Genre: Classic British Rock

Do Wah Diddy by Manfred Mann

House of the Rising Sun by The Animals

Angie by The Rolling Stones

Love Me Do by The Beatles

Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen

Marluxia

Favorite Genre: Indie Folk and Indie Rock

Never Let Me Go by Florence and the Machine

Sedated by Hozier

Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys

There is a Light that Never Goes Out by the Smiths

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

Larxene

Favorite Genre: Techno/House Music

Sandstorm by Darude

Techno City by Cybotron

Liquid Slow by Chris Liebing and Charlotte de Witte

Vibrancy by Umek

Moonstone by Industrialyzer

Roxas

Favorite Genre: Varies

Wouldn’t It Be Nice by the Beach Boys

King by Lauren Aquilina

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

Respect by Aretha Franklin

Imagine by John Lennon

Xion

Favorite Genre: Current Pop

Havana by Camilla Cabello

See You Again by Charlie Puth

Sucker by The Jonas Brothers

Señorita by Shawn Mendes

Palace by Sam Smith

[stormskates]

“If you need to make a writeup to understand a program then it’s not a good program”

1. I wrote that for fun, showing my appreciation as a fan. No need to take it so deep.

2. Believe it or not IAOP was extremely easy to interpret and write about. I didn’t have a problem piecing the parts together at all. It took me less than a hour to write the whole thing; I spent more time finding the right GIFs.

3. Writeups don’t show a program is bad. Do you immediately understand every painting when you look at it? No. Some paintings evoke emotions, some don’t. That doesn’t change the value and effort and story put behind it. If anything, they should help you understand and appreciate it better, if not show you where there are discrepancies in concept and execution.

Case in point: can you tell me the logic behind Alina’s Cleopatra that uses music from films that have nothing to do with Cleopatra? Or why Satoko’s SP is mixing Egyptian hands with disco music—what’s the purpose of that? Or what are the concepts behind Shcherbakova’s free and short program? What is the story Trusova is telling in her Gynt program that warrants an expression through a mid-program costume change?

Good programs are easy to write about. Alina’s Don Quixote shows you a ballerina introducing herself in the beginning of the program, shy at first and then dancing with more confidence and joy in the latter half. Her sleeve change in Black Swan tells a story, too; she’s hinting her transformation. Valieva’s short program is inspired by a painting, but the casual viewer wouldn’t get that either if you weren’t following her closely. Tomoe Kawabata’s costume invokes the picture of a river in her SP to Blue Danube. Yuzuru Hanyu’s Hope and Legacy is a medley that tells a story through Hisaishi’s music.

Programs where the concept is loose and poorly justified are often shallow—it can look bad, it can look pretty, but that doesn’t mean it has depth.

You don’t have to like the program but build yourself some critical thinking skills, otherwise I’ll assume you’re one of those simpletons who think that mid-program costume changes automatically contribute anything substantial to composition and performance. If you think they do, write your own program review and interpretation. Put your brain to work and share it.

[passingthetime]

I was tagged by @queenofliqht, thank you a whole lot!! ✨

Name: Móna

Nickname: Sadly none. I will forever anyone that gives me a nickname.

Sun/Moon/rising: Gemini Sun, Pisces Moon, Capricorn rising (yes I still can't believe I can actually answer this!)

Age: 20

Fave musician: Lemme be biased and sappy and say my man! I don't like picking favourite musicians, cuz I have no idea who's a good musician. I can tell if I like a piece of music, but can't tell if I like the guitarist's or the bassist's or the drummer's etc. work most...

Fave anime: I used to be really into anime so let's see... First of all, all of Satoshi Kon's movies that I've seen: Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Paprika. Then a bunch of Ghibli movies like Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, Porco Rosso, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, Spirited Away or Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. And finally, so that it's not just movies: Violet Evergarden, Hyouka, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Durarara!!, Noragami. Angelic Layer and Detective Conan get an honourable mention for getting me through middle school.

Fave video game: I'm really into WoW right now! I play on one of those private servers so I get to play WotLK, good stuff.

Fave vitamine supplement: I don't care about vitamin supplements at all... But Vitamin C comes in orange flavoured chewable tablets so I'll go with that.

Fave addiction: Lemme be sappy again and say love! (But I also find my addiction to greater amounts of carbohydrates than what I need funny so that too)

Fave book: Éjféli iskolák by Veres Attila!! That book is so damn important to me, like a best friend.

Fave way to bathe: I don't really bathe, I take showers. Though sitting in one of those bathtubs with lion paws and having fruits and good vine and a good book on one of those bathing table things does sound nice.

Last time you were in a body of water: 26th of August, my man's birthday party was by the Danube as traditional for him, and I of course went for a swim.

Fave element: Fire for sure!

I'm tagging @disco-lizardd, @feather-canyons, @harshkali-eh, @candyandcurrantbun & anyone else who wants to do it! ☀️

[corbingoodomensblog]

Aziraphale Playlist

Yeah, I made one for him, following the success of the ineffable husbands playlist I made and posted on tumblr. Here you go.

Flown- Julianna Barwick / In Heaven - David Lynch / Pennies From Heaven - Arthur Tracy / Mercury - James McAllister / To Make A Difference - From Angels The Musical / Bittersweet Genesis for Him AND Her - Kishi Bashi / World - Five For Fighting / Jupiter - Sleeping At Last / The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Passenger / Trouble - Connie Converse / Getting To Know You - Richard Rogers / Two Princes, Acoustic Version - Fake Pictures / The Good Side - Troye Sivan / Trouble - Cage The Elephant / Rainbow Connection - Sleeping At Last / You’ve Got A Friend - Carole King / Lean On Me - Bill Withers / You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me - Mel Tormé / I Have Friends In Holy Spaces - Panic! At The Disco / You’re My Best Friend - Queen / Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra / Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants / Fancy - Scott Bradley’s Postmodern Jukebox / I’m British - Professor Elemental / Piano Concerto no.23 in A Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / The Motion Waltz - Rufus Wainwright / Slow Dance - Pomplamoose / Oh! Darling - The Beatles / Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations / Goody Goody - Frankie Lymon /Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant / Turn It Off - Scott Barnhardt / The Blue Danube - Johann Strauss II / Hurts Like Heaven - Shearwater / Stuck In The Middle - MIKA / Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright / We Are Nobody Else - Lady Lamb / Behind The Sea, Alternate Version - Panic! At The Disco / Chocolate - Snow Patrol / Old Friend - Mitski / A Shop With Books In - The Bookshop Band / Pettiness - Todrick Hall / I’m Old Fashioned - Noel Coward / Gavotte For Flute & Piano - François Joseph Gossec / Magic Moments - Perry Como / Better Than Fine - Fiona Apple / Everybody Says Don’t - Sutton Foster / Another Believer - Rufus Wainwright / Cheek to Cheek - Ella Fitzgerald / Happy Together - Mel Tormé / Seaside Rendezvous - Queen / Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald / Creation Of Love - Frankie Lymon / Mama Mia - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Love, I Hear - Brain Davies / The Longest Time - Billy Joel / Your Song - Elton John / Jesus, Jesus - Noah Gundersen / Some Things Cosmic - Angel Olsen / Soft To Be Strong - MARINA / Roll Away Your Stone - Noah Guthrie / Spread Your Wings - Queen / Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John / Philosophy - Ben Folds Five / Soft Power - Arcade Fire / I Went To Hell Last Night - MIKA / Arms Unfolding - dodie / Ready Now - dodie / Teo Torriatte - Queen / Fallen Angel - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons / Tightrope - Sara Bareilles / Brightest - Book On Tape Worm / You Are Enough - Sleeping At Last / Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles / Top Of The World - Carpenters / Miracle Of Miracles - Leonard Frey / Don’t Rain On My Parade - Barbra Streisand / Wonderful! Wonderful! - Johnny Mathis / Picnic For Two - Frank Tapp / My Darling, My Darling - Johnny Mathis / He’s Funny That Way - Bob Dylan / Can’t Help Falling In Love - Harley Reinhart / Dear Heart - Frank Sinatra / Two Thousand Years - Billy Joel / Riches And Wonders - Eliza Rickman / Across The Universe - Rufus Wainwright / Falling Asleep With A Book On Your Chest, Piano Version - Lullatone

https://open.spotify.com/user/lgemme/playlist/3wNsV8os9mzZY00p9iM5Mz?si=-17a5TJlT8CNRkDr87CCbQ

[demidemilitclub]

3 and 4 from the newest asks? 🌿but especially 3 and if that's still too wide please tell me something about one artist you just love right now! 😇

3. What is your favorite music genre? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. The problem with a question like this is as soon as someone asks, I completely forget every single song I’ve ever listened to.

However, I will endeavor to answer this to the best of my ability, though not so much as a complete list, but more of a general feel. Also, you can always ask me about specific artists/songs/albums/genres that I do or don’t include in this list. (Also, while I would normally hyperlink songs, that’s just so many and I’ve already taken long enough to answer this ask.)

Classical: I know it’s not the proper term for the entire genre if you’re a musician, but you generally get what I’m going at. Of particular note would be Chopin, Vivaldi’s “Winter”, Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre”, Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”, Beethoven’s 5th and 9th Symphonies, Mozart’s Symphony 40, Mozart’s Requiem, Strauss’ “Blue Danube”, Holst’s “Mars, the Bringer of War” Tschaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”, Rossini’s “William Tell Overture.” Stuff generally along those lines.

Ballet/Opera: Ballets include Tschaikovsky's Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, Bizet’s Carmen, Verdi’s “Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore and “The Drinking Song” from La Traviata and “La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto. Honorary mention goes to Verdi’s Macbeth because, I mean, it’s Macbeth, you can’t go wrong with Macbeth.

Musical Theater: I f*cking love musical theater, so if you want to send me more specific musical theater asks, knock yourselves out, but there’s just so much that I couldn’t even start. Just know that I define “Musical Theater” as basically Gilbert & Sullivan to present-day Broadway/West End.

Jazz: I specifically really like classic club jazz, the sort of swing/big band stylings of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, et al. I also really like East Coast Jazz (an informal term that refers to not-West Coast Jazz), like John Coltrane.

Big Band/Swing: Glenn Miller, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, etc. You get the idea.

Country: Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, John Denver, Dusty Springfield.

Metal: Dragonforce, Metallica, Black Sabbath.

Classic Rock: Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals (of “House of the Rising Sun” fame), Pink Flyod, Jimi Hendrix, Credence Clearwater Revival, Blue Oyster Cult, and all that other good dad music. The only exceptions are Jimmy Buffet (he’s fine, he’s just not in my rotation) and Grateful Dead.

Memes: If the song is a meme, or used in a meme, I like it.

Songs That Never Fail to Get White People Beyond Turnt: That whole list? BOPS.

70s/80s: Journey, Kansas, “Heat of the Moment” by Asia, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, Tears for Fears, etc.

Hip Hop/Rap: I really like sort of “classic”/“old school” hip hop and rap, like N.W.A., The Notorious B.I.G., “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang, Tupac, and the sort of 80s-early 00s hip hop and rap. I also enjoy Childish Gambino, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, and Lil Nas X. This is a genre that I really need to sit down and listen to more often, because it’s definitely something I’ve grown into.

Emo: Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Green Day.

Soundtracks: Movie and game soundtracks are awesome. Like with musical theater, ask me about specifics, but to give you a vague idea: Schindler’s List, Dark Souls III, Legend of the Colossus, Undertale, Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and pretty much 99% of Disney (specific shoutouts to Hunckback, Hercules, and Mulan). Plus, I love me some Hans Zimmer.

Honorable Mention: The sort of cinematic, Southern Gothic music that “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac or “Ghost Riders in the Sky” by Johnny Cash evokes. Check out the trailer for Netflix’s “Remastered: Robert Johnson” for another great example.

Misc/I Don’t Know How Genres Work: Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Supremes, Heart, Joan Jett, Billy Joel, Daft Punk, “Rhythm Nation” by Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Robert Johnson, saintmotel, Misterwives, Fats Domino, Lorde, Billie Eilish, Janelle Monae.

I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch of stuff I like, but that just shows how eclectic my taste in music is.

If there’s anything you think I missed, or want clarification or to ask a more specific question, feel free to ask!

4. Have you ever had a penpal? Not really, no. I mean, I’ve written various kinds of letters to people as part of school assignments over the years, but I never really went back and forth with one person. I always thought it would be kind of fun though.

[prideandperdition]

Me: Reading an academic history book first time in my life

Also me, every 4 sentences: Oh geez, who was that random NPC, how did that unexplained thing happen, how long is the Danube river, what even is geography, did they like disco, time to crank up the wikipedia machine

[itsbydesign]

Kipchoge ran the fastest time ever over the marathon distance, but for heated reasons that get at the heart of the sport, he did not run a marathon. One hour and 59 minutes is fast in a way that’s difficult to comprehend. Despite the formidable distance, Kipchoge ripped through each mile of his run in about four and a half minutes. This speed would feel like an all-out sprint to almost anyone who could keep up with him in the first place. To sustain this blistering pace, Kipchoge ran under conditions that had been painstakingly and exclusively arranged to push him beyond the two-hour barrier. The INEOS 1:59 Challenge was not a race by any strict definition: It was simply Kipchoge, joined by a rotating phalanx of pacesetters, rocketing along the pavement against the clock. The planning that went into the event was a fantasy of perfectionism. The organizers scouted out a six-mile circuit along the Danube River that was flat, straight, and close to sea level. Parts of the road were marked with the fastest possible route, and a car guided the runners by projecting its own disco-like laser in front of them to show the correct pace. The pacesetters, a murderers’ row of Olympians and other distance stars, ran seven-at-a-time in a wind-blocking formation devised by an expert of aerodynamics. (Imagine the Mighty Ducks’ “flying V,” but reversed.) Kipchoge himself came equipped with an updated, still-unreleased version of Nike’s controversial Vaporfly shoes, which, research appears to confirm, lower marathoners’ times. He had unfettered access to his favorite carbohydrate-rich drink, courtesy of a cyclist who rode alongside the group. And the event’s start time was scheduled within an eight-day window to ensure the best possible weather. The whole thing was as close as you can get to a mobile marathon spa treatment—if going to a spa were paired with the worst discomfort of your life.

Kipchoge's Sub-Two-Hour Marathon: How Legitimate Is It? - The Atlantic

but still ...

[indie-csgb]

Walt Disco - Danube クセが強すぎるグラスゴーの5ピースバンド。 スミスとオレンジジュースが合体して現代に蘇ったような。 もっと聴きたいので一刻も早くアルバム希望！！！

[dioskailacs]

Mutual Tag🌈

aw csillagom my sweet little summer child @beethovensan you make grandma all emotional 👵💖

1. nickname: so, my official name is a nickname already and I thought, naively, that it didn’t quite require further nicking, but alas I was wrong. family calls me cica, most of my coworkers call me pannuska, but one of them settled for panna nyá. I’ve been called panni, panchan, pancsi at university, my roommate calls me kedves or makdi or édesgyökér, another friend calls me tróger, another majom. go make your pick

2. zodiac: aquarius 👽🚀

3. height: 163.5

4. age: 26 but also like 117

5. time: 20:30

6. fave bands: fall out boy, panic at the disco, exo, florence and the machine, green day

7. song stuck in my head: paint - after ever after 3

8. last movie i saw: Mary Shelley (it was SO GOOD i adore her SO MUCH, frankenstein is a genius work of art, so profound and deep and TRUE, and i think the movie did her justice)

9. last thing i googled: pusztító múzeumbogár (not nearly as intimidating as you’d expect, i won’t lie i was a little disappointed)

10. other blogs: pls i can hardly find time for this

11. do i get asks: recently i got some for expressing my opinion about a mediocre book series, it was a fun and exciting experience

12. why i chose my username: this is a sad story. i had another blog before called tokai-asoo (rip), and with my friends we were coming up with hungarian puns involving exo stuff, one more terrible than the other, and since tokai-asoo was lost, i needed another that also referred to kaisoo and this is what i came up with

13. following: 432

14. average amount of sleep: i wish i could say 8 hours, but usually it’s like 5-7 because i’m a fool and can’t go to bed like a responsible working person

15. lucky number: 6 and 12

16. what am i wearing right now: black sweatpants that have a red spot where bleach happened and a pink-white shirt that says you’re weird don’t change (got it from my roommate)

17. dream job: writer

18. dream trip: SPACE, another dimension, the next millenium

19. fave food: fries and mayo, also literally anything japanese (except for the live baby octopus eating they do in okinawa ew nope count me out)

20. play an instrument: i play the instrument moste individualé, mine own vocal chords (and i suck at singing but i do it anyway because it’s fun and i love it and i don’t care)

21. fave songs: oh boy. fall out boy - 27; patd - high hopes, this year; florence - big god, sky full of song, what the water gave me; halsey - control; aquilo - human; lena fayre - this world; lorde - everybody wants to rule the world; svrcina - battlefield; amber run - i found; hozier - in the woods somewhere; fun - some nights; the list could go on infinitely

22. play any sports: i’ve been doing running pretty steadily for a while now, also i love cycling like that one week we’ve cycled along the danube? HEAVEN. indescribable.

23. hair color: naturally it’s a dark blonde/light brown, but it’s dyed blonde now

24. eye color: now this is a question that makes me angry. no, actually my eyes make me angry. so, around the irises it’s clearly yellow, but the main colour? i’ve no fucking idea. it’s like a strange mixture of green, blue and grey and depending on the light it varies its hue??? like make up your damn mind stupid eyes!! !

25. most iconic song: LL Junior - Rabszolgalány

26. language(s) you speak: hungarian, english, german, japanese and i understand some very basic korean

27. random fact(s): stuffed kohlrabi smells like a rich, ripe fart (but it’s insanely delicious wtf!!)

28. describe yourself in aesthetics: animated gesticulation with cigarette in hand, oversized black hoodies, unisex perfume, playing with hair, being barefoot, perfect facade of chill, random singing, reading ghost stories and then being terrified at night, holographic platforms, bitten nails, scraps of writing littered in every notebook

I tag @drawien because i adore her mind and i’m so sorry for being a ghost at social media 

[richyrichyrichyrichy]

                                                                                                            OZONE3      

OZONE, le groupe « maudit » de l’est !, de pont-à-mousson (ne pas confondre avec un boys band de l’est plus lointain, lequel se nommera aussi o/zone plus tard), s’est formé fin 1976 & a existé fortement (basé dans la fameuse ancienne abbaye des Prémontrés), quoique dans l’underground, jusqu’à 1985, puis subliminalement jusqu’à 1999, avec seulement quelques sorties de disques /

un tel groupe peut cependant être auditionné aujourd’hui dans le monde entier !, depuis son entrée sur la plate-forme SOUNDCLOUD /              

nous vous invitons à découvrir le seul reggae qu’il a créé en 1979, suite à la proposition de son compositeur principal, grand fan notamment de bunny wailer et pete tosh

on le trouvera sous le nom : « jama / with the last radio ethiopia orchestra », il s’agit d’un court instrumental en 15 parties, où certaines parties orchestrales ne sont pas sans rappeller messiaen, que le compositeur écoute si souvent (on pense à « canyons »)

malheureusement, ozone3 laissait vite la place à ozone4 qui abandonna son répertoire précédent, le plus original pourtant !, et « jama » resta à l’état de maquette enregistrée à l’aide d’un revox, par leur bassiste et ingénieur du son, d’ailleurs d’ascendance égyptienne

////////////à savoir encore : ozone en sa période 3 (1979)  pourra être remarqué en tant qu’un des rares groupes français qui à la toute fin des seventies se positionnaient sur les rails du « trans europe express » de kraftwerk, mais avec une originalité folle, hélas cela aura été impossible à homologuer à l’époque, ce répertoire restant donc à l’état « démo », ces 8 mn sous le titre « euro disco suite », la plage la + jouée sur soundcloud (sans tricher :  le groupe n’a même pas de comptes pros, ce compte : managé par un de leur fan)

( on peut écouter, datant de mi- eighties, la proposition étonnante mais bienvenue d’une nouvelle illustration sonore pour la langoureuse scène du film phagocytée par « le beau danube bleu », cet instrumental particulier d’ozone pourra être retrouvé sur soundcloud sous le titre «a space wedding march for the film 2001 », un instrumental encore, une démo encore hélas)

adresses soundcloud  :   ozone   richy     jama   tristan vox         lonely hollywood   erik  satie aux jardins de bagatelle sous l’orage