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princessofgayskull · 4 years ago

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ik this isn't she-ra related but ur main blogs asks aren't open 😳😳 n e wey, thoughts on folklore?? i wanna hear ur favorite songs, favorite lines, any parts that gave u chills, all the good stuff

Someone asking me about Taylor Swift? Someone asking my thoughts about Taylor Swift?! Someone actually wanting to hear what I have to say about Taylor Swift? I feel like Entrapta back in season one when she was asked about her theories about Etheria and was she excited to show everyone her model.

Before I dive in, I want to apologize that it took me so long to get this to ask. I’ve been swamped trying to keep up with summer classes and I wrote several versions of this post only to have tumblr delete it and make me start over before I had the bright idea to write it on a google doc first so I didn’t lose all my work and that is the draft you are reading now! But, for authenticity reasons, after I saw this ask I scrambled to write what I could remember from my first album listen that took place at exactly 11pm (after I watched and cried to the cardigan video, of course). Here there are in note form:

I cannot believe that in the darkest timeline that Taylor Alison Swift dropped a surprise album with sixteen songs in an entirely different genre (the heart attack I had when I learned folklore was a genre shift; I cannot believe I doubted the song writing legend herself). The album has been out for a week and I kid you not the only reason I know I didn’t make it up or dream it is because this album is far more beautiful than I could’ve ever come up with. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve listened to it. Everything about the album- the lyrics, the topics, the genre, the production- speaks my language fluently. Even during the first listen I felt that I had somehow known these songs my whole life despite their raw newness.

This might read weird, but I think one of my favorite aspects about the album is how voyeuristic it feels to listen to. I don't mean sexually, but rather the way it feels like I don't have full permission to be looking at the lives of the people she is singing about. It's as if Taylor said, "I know you want to peek behind the curtain and see all my flaws" so she dives into these characters who are very flawed people and is so raw and honest as she takes their place saying almost "I will treat them like you treat me."

Yet at the same time, it's her most grounded album. There's something so shiny about pop music (I'm not knocking it, I love pop music, life's too short not to) but this is as if Taylor's pop mentality was left out in the rain and rusted. There's something so real and familiar about it. Like you can reach out and hold it in your hand.

It's venturing too far into the forest and stepping into another dimension and living in it for sixteen songs. A dimension of mysticism, nihilism, magic, and mistakes.

Here is my track-by-track list of favorite things/ chill moments/ awestruck moments.

the 1- WHAT AN ALBUM OPENER. This song rips my heart out and stomps on it. "You know the greatest loves of all time are over now" Why does lyric make me wanna break down and have the most cathartic cry? The defeated acceptance of it all is gut wrenching. "In my defense I have none" Taylor's turn it phrase on this album is brilliant and I aspire to this level of word cleverness.

cardigan- the slow buildup of this song pure magic. If you don't scream "Cause I knew everything when I was young!" at the top of your lungs when listening to this song, are you really a cardigan stan?

the last great american dynasty- F. Scott Fitzgerald who? No, I only know Miss Taylor Swift. Seriously, this song isn't even four minutes long and it's better than any novel written about the American dream. Also, "and then it was bought by me" Taylor you cannot just drop that bombshell on me without letting me get emotionally prepared.

exile ft. bon iver- a song crafted in heaven. Somehow it makes me both depressed and provides me serotonin. I can't get enough of the lyric "I'm not your problem anymore/ so who am I offending?" FUCK THAT'S GOOD. THE SONG IS SO GOOD. SMASH THAT REPEAT BUTTON. I could drown in this song.

my tears ricochet- by far my favorite on the album, and my favorite number five track. I don’t think there’s another Taylor Swift I relate to as much as this one. This hits a very, very close to a personal place for me. Right at the center of an open wound. And god, the build up. It just makes the emotional experience that more poignant. “And I can anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home.” I got chills the first time I listened to that lyric, and it brings tears to my eyes. Needless to say, I’ve had some good cries to this song.

mirrorball- this track is about as cutting as they come. The Imposter Syndrome anthem. It’s the “everything that comes from me has to be perfect, to make up for the fact that it’s from me” song. It’s the sense that nothing you do is worth doing if there’s no audience, yet the audience is the biggest threat. “I’ve never been a natural, I’ll do is try, try, try.” Yeah. There’s a reason this is the TS album I relate to the most.

seven- I keep saying these songs are so beautiful, but god, this one. Her vocals, the lyrics; in my opinion, a defining moment on the album. The driving home of the point that stories are important because we tell them. It’s a story plagued by a narrator who’s too young to understand and can only put the pieces together as she’s looking back. “And I’ve been meaning to tell you/ I think your house is haunted/ your dad is always mad and that must be why.” I almost can’t handle that. The loss of childhood innocence and the longing for it in just three minutes and twenty eight seconds.

august- “REMEMBER WHEN I PULLED UP AND SAID GET IN THE CAR AND THEN CANCELED MY PLANS JUST IN CASE YOU CALL/ BACK WHEN I WAS LIVING FOR THE HOPE OF IT ALL, FOR THE HOPE OF IT ALL/ MEET ME BEHIND THE MALL!” currently trying to learn this on guitar, which is fun because I’m not much of a singer. Also, I think that Betty and this girl should ditch James and date each other, if you’re of the interpretation that James is a cishet guy.

this is me trying- So I know that this is a song about a woman struggling with an alcohol addiction, but I really relate to this song because it just feels so much like my struggle with mental illnesses and the way my potential died so quickly because of that struggle. “I was so ahead of the curve/ the curve became a sphere/ fell behind all my classmates/ and I ended up here.” yep. that’s about it.

illicit affairs- again, the build up. “Don’t call me kid! Don’t call me baby! Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me!” Gotta scream that everytime. Also are we going to talk about the lines “Take the words for what they are/ a dwindling mercurial high/ a drug that only worked/ the first few hundred times” ? because I cannot stop thinking about it, or any of the lyrics for that matter.

invisible string-Joe Alwyn, do you know one of the most beautiful songs in history was written about you? I love the instrumental on this one. Also, it’s just flat out brilliant. “Bad was the blood of the song in the cab on your first trip to L.A” Holy shit. Also, “cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart/ now I send their babies presents.” You know what that is? Growth.

mad woman-while my tears ricochet takes the spot as my favorite, this is the Taylor Swift song I claim above all others. “Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy/ what about that?” This song is at the intersection, however coincidental, of my identity as a mentally ill woman. It’s also extreme vindication the way she calls out women acting as double agents of the patriarchy. A scathing criticism of patriarchal socialization and the way women are punished for reacting to anything.

epiphany- listen to this song after watching the news. lay down. assume fetal position. try not to cry. fail and sob. wash, rinse, repeat.

betty- the old taylor can’t come to the phone right now cause she’s chewing out james for cheating on betty. *wink* However, she will write a folksy banger that’s very old taylor where James takes accountability for their mistake. I love the wlw interpretations of the love triangle songs, and I also can totally see James as a he/him lesbian.

peace-the disembodied feel of this song is so unique to Taylor’s sound but I totally dig it! This is the album of a woman in her thirties, and I hope it paves the way to more women being able to stay within the industry getting older. There’s a maturity here that is the result of having created so many albums and having found her voice.

hoax- Time to go scream off the edge of a cliff in solidarity. An open closer that rivals the defeatism of the opener, a slow descent into madness that has followed a trauma. “You know it still hurts from scars from when they pulled me apart/ but what you did was just as dark/ darling, this was just hard/ as when they pulled me apart.” Literally no words. I’m always left speechless.

If you’ve ever thought “I like Taylor but I don’t like her music because she did country and now does pop” this is the album you need to take a chance on. I can only dream of one day possessing Taylor’s ability to tell stories and this album will stick with you in all the best ways. The reason Taylor Swift can genre jump the way she does so seamlessly is because of her unrivaled strength as a songwriter. Stream folklore on spotify!!!!!!!!!

This is probably much more than you asked for, but I hope it satisfies! Thank you for letting me gush about Taylor and this album!!!!!! Sorry it took me so freaking long! If you have thoughts, I would LOVE to hear them!

#AHHHHH SOMEONE LET ME TALK ABOUT TAYLOR I'M SO GRATEFUL AND I'M SO SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO WRITE THIS #folklore #seriously i could write books about this album #I didn't even really write all my thoughts lol #tried to water em down #;)#seriously tho - stream folklore

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thesinglesjukebox · 6 years ago

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TAYLOR SWIFT - YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN

[3.65]

The one that's on our mind, 365, all the time...

Will Rivitz: The Singles Jukebox -- Corrections, June 21 2019: The author of this blurb has previously stated that the selection of Meghan Trainor as LA Pride headliner would forever be the nadir of Pride-related programming. The author regrets the error. [1]

Joshua Copperman: The discourse for "ME!": "What does this mean for Taylor's next era?" The discourse for this lyrical clusterfuck: "What does this mean at all?" It's a much more interesting production, without stock horns and with some nice "Royals"-y vocal layering, but it's the most incoherent thing she's ever released. Is it about stans? Is it about homophobes? Is it a coming out song? Did Taylor throw the first shade at Stonewall? What is HAPPENING?? I'm sorry, I need to calm down. [3]

Will Adams: Taylor said "Gay Rights!" Kind of! Sort of. Well... it's complicated. Not necessarily because of her status as a cis straight woman, but because the message itself is so damn muddled. Stans and trolls and bigots and music journalists are lumped in the same mass of "haters," and while it's worth noting that this by no means the first anti-haters pop song to exist, the overt political text here results in lots of crossed wires. The song suffers as a result too, throwing half-formed catchphrases at the wall to see what sticks: the chorus is a melodic void (odd considering Taylor's songwriting strength); the "gowns" reference is too subtle to register; the patter results in odd scansion throughout ("like it's PUH-trón"); and "snakes and stones never broke my bones" is no more clever than "don't need opinions from a shellfish or a sheep." Speaking of Katy, also wrapped up in all this is a resolution of a beef that never seemed that important except as something for either party to mine for big single launches. It's all too much, especially for a not-bad track that fizzes just fine on its own. It'd be churlish to ask Taylor to take her own advice; for now all I ask for is coherence. [4]

Jonathan Bradley: Taylor Swift has always had a talent for deploying sharp and piquant phrases, the sorts of lyrics that tell blunt little stories like animated gifs. It's an opportunity for her to go broad and get funny: "Some indie record that's much cooler than mine," for instance, or "I can make the bad guys good for a weekend," or "I don't love the drama, it loves me." "You Need to Calm Down" is like an entire song built from these lines, and it whirls by like a Twitter thread or an Instagram story. Taylor sass is a lot of fun, and many of these ripostes are satisfyingly catty in their insouciance ("I'm just like, 'hey... are you OK?'" might be the best of these). Swift has shrugged off detractors on "Shake It Off" and "Mean," but she is more single-minded this time, and that focus paradoxically dilutes the intent. Swift's greatest strength as a songwriter is her interiority; she's adept at examining and interpreting her own feelings. But a consequence of that is that she is far less certain when she needs to step outside the bounds of her own head. The worst song she has ever released was a charity single called "Ronan," in which Swift sung in the voice of a mother who had lost her child to cancer; so talented at realizing her personal traumas, she proved incapable of reconstructing her sympathy for that bereavement in her own voice. "Calm Down" has some things to say about homophobia, and in this terrain outside her own experience, Swift's words are not so much unpleasant as awkward and a bit superficial, particularly in their uncertain invocation of "shade" as bigotry. (If stan theorists needed evidence that Swift is indeed as straight as she publicly presents, it's here: a queer Taylor would not have written a second verse as disengaged as that one.) But even diluted, Swift singles are still constructed tight. This one continues finding the pastel inversion of Reputation's skeletal synth sound, and echoes "ME!" with a hook of vowel sounds as palilalia -- "oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh..." this time, rather than "me-hee-hee." It's a tic that works -- in moderation. [7]

Alex Clifton: (Puts on music critic hat) It's stronger than "ME!" (which isn't hard but worth noting), I'm glad she takes swipes at homophobia but equating that with personal shots is a little bit weird, it's super catchy but the lyrics are still a little lacking, and I still can't remember all the words even though I have the melody memorized. (Takes off music critic hat, puts on bisexual Swiftie stan hat) EVERYTHING IS RAINBOWS AND MY BRAIN WON'T STOP SINGING THIS AND I WOULD MARRY TAYLOR SWIFT, HAPPY PRIDE!!!!! [5]

Alfred Soto: I'm sure it will sound fine on the radio, especially played beside "Bad Guy" and "Old Town Road." The maximalist intentions behind the Everest-sized synth bass and her rat-tat-tat delivery bespeak a mind that recognizes it's the one needing calm. Except for the "parade" line, I wouldn't have known this alludes to Pride if I hadn't watched the video. I don't feel pandered to as a queer man because, after all, a Pride parade is superficial performativity anyway. [6]

Katherine St Asaph: Give her this: the stacked-up arpeggio in the chorus is an absolutely brilliant hook, particularly the second time when it goes over the top. The rapid-fire prechorus is pretty good too. But the beat is the same freezer-burned "Paper Planes"/"With Ur Love"/"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" chill, the accents are so far from the right syllables they've filed a misSING perSONS REport, the conflating of trolls with professional critics with the literal Westboro Baptist Church is bad (as is the weird class shit in the video, as if you can't be anti-gay and present like a Pleasantville star), and all this was done much better on "Mean." [5]

Katie Gill: In a way, this song is hellishly brilliant. Taylor Swift has provided her standom with a weapon, something that they can wield against any form of criticism. Want to write an article criticizing the fact that Swift seems to put "homophobia" and "me having internet bullies" on the same level, the fact that the video tactlessly paints rural Americana as the enemy of LGBTQ+ people instead of the Mike Pences of the world, or the fact that the second verse leans way too close to the sort of tactlessness that only aggressively woke allies can pull off? Expect a flock of Twitter replies telling you condescendingly that "you need to calm down" and "you're being too loud," as people ignore the half-assed condemnation of standom during the song's third verse in favor of using Swift's lyrics as a cudgel against any perceived haters. For all that Swift is trying to shed the sneaky snake image, traces of it still linger between the lines. [3]

Edward Okulicz: The people who said "Heartbeats" by The Knife was the future of music were right in 2003, and based on this, have now been right for 16 years and counting. That enormous synth-bass takes a song that should have been awful on paper (ugh, a thematic sequel to "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things," which itself is why we can't have nice things, like good Taylor Swift songs), with the second verse featuring the worst lyrics Swift has ever written, and makes it frisky and playful. The "uh-oh uh-oh UH-OH!" hook is legitimately her best in years. Obsessing about someone is tedious, obsessing about those people is even more tedious, but for once, Swift sounds like she's legitimately above it, even if I don't think she knows what "shade" is. I wanted to hate this for its posturing, but I can't, because of the "uh-oh" bit. But just between you and me, I liked Katy Perry's last single more. [6]

William John: I'm always happy to hear songs that approximate the "Heartbeats" melody, and the layered vocals here sound lovely, but Dorian Corey didn't keep a mummy in her house for fifteen years for "shade" to be misinterpreted so flagrantly. [3]

Danilo Bortoli: Is it fair to demand political accountability from artists? The question remains thorny these days, but when Taylor Swift blatantly goes after pink money, the answer is yes, loud and clear. The case made for "You Need To Calm Down" has pulled the identity politics card (as usual, The Onion put it better). That is, Swift's song oversimplifies an ancient struggle for recognition, making up a narrative that isn't Taylor's to call her own. But what is more infuriating is the sugarcoating: the fact that pride should come only from within, and the naive and painful suggestion that a homophobe would go silent after a line as awful as "shade never made anybody less gay". That is to say, when it comes to protest, I prefer it the French way. Which is why all of this begs the question: Would you tell Richard Spencer to "calm down"? No, of course you wouldn't. [2]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: There are probably 2300 words elsewhere in this post about the politics and rhetoric of Taylor's words here (and I'll get to that), but first I feel obligated to talk about how "You Need To Calm Down" works on a purely musical level. It sounds like ass. It takes the bag of tricks that Swift used on "Ready For It?," the most musically captivating of Reputation's singles, and sands off all of their weird edges. Yes, there's a bass thump to welcome you in, but without the distortion it just sounds like Taylor's doing "Royals"-lite (I mean, Joel Little did produce.) And with the fangs off the verse, the lift to the chorus fails to land. It's all just sound, an undifferentiated, imperial wave of midtempo banger signifier without a real hook. Even Swift's vocals, which have always been her most compelling tool, can't sell the song's vibe -- she's confused not giving a fuck for calm. Of course, it's not entirely clear what "You Need To Calm Down"'s vibe, or point, even is. It's trying to be clever, with its winking references to stale LGBTQ and feminist symbology, but by conflating (or at least juxtaposing) those struggles with the problems that Taylor Swift has as a widely hated famous person, it ends up saying nothing at all. In the end, "You Need To Calm Down" is less a coherent song in itself than a Potemkin village to situate endless thinkpieces in. Make it stop. [3]

Ashley Bardhan: I know the title is "You Need To Calm Down" but there are no human words that can aptly describe how much I hate this song. Think of a young pigeon cooing as it flies through a fish market, weaving over and through the glistening crates of silver-scaled fish and ice. Oh no! There's a problem with a shipment! The owner angrily tosses a fat fish into the air, and its scales glint as it smacks the pigeon mid-air and onto the ground with the full brunt of its weight. The pigeon sees the fish market, its final flight, behind its closed eyes in a hurried blur. It weakly wheezes its final birdsong, and then... nothing. Yaaas, hunty. [0]

Iris Xie: 🤷 This is so tired, I can't even be that mad about it. The only question I have, because this song and MV isn't even worth a QTPOC-centered thinkpiece from me is this: when is the Post Malone + Swae Lee + Taylor Swift collaboration happening? This sounds so much like "Sunflower" and is just as deadening. Even the excitement of one of my besties sending me an ~*urgent*~ text message about Katy Perry and Taylor Swift making up over their imaginary feud, once they realized it hurt both of their fanbases, can't even ignite an ounce of care from me. (Bless your heart, my dear friend.) If she really wanted to pander to the gays, she could've just written a sequel to "Look What You Made Me Do" and become a slicker conduit for the less graceful parts about being in queer scenes, which can be about petty, messy drama, rather than being the subject of rage and apathy about being another harbinger of happy happy HAPPY gaypropriation. Like, whatever, she can have her extremely meaningless self-declared ally medal. I've been calm, just give me actual music. [2]

Isabel Cole: It's like this: A while ago I was catching up with an ex who mentioned he'd recently come back into contact with someone we'd known in high school -- acquaintance of his, frenemy of mine, a few sparkling months of giggling BFF-ship deteriorating across a year I spent defending her while she shit-talked my fashion sense in the girls' room to the local blabbermouth -- and he told me, with an ironic arch of the brow, that when my name had inevitably come up she'd said, "Isabel and I used to be so close; I wonder what happened." Reader, I spent like a week losing my mind, repeating the story and relitigating the history to anyone who would listen while bitterly making fun of her internet presence. Was this because I am petty and emotionally volatile? Yes. But it was also because there is a certain level of willful detachment from reality which I do not have the cognitive capacity to process adequately. Taylor Swift having the gall to tell any human on earth to calm down makes me feel insane the way it makes me feel insane to see someone citing as evidence of their incurable adolescent unpopularity the dorky AIM screenname they picked based on an affectionate joke I made. Taylor Swift saying "take several seats" makes me feel the same combination of spiteful and enraged as reading a line recycled from Livejournal in 2005: please learn like everyone else to disguise the extent to which the human brain is a machine wired to seek validation, the transparency of your desperation is making all of us uncomfortable! God, I wanna snub her in a lunchroom so bad. The song is unappealing in ways that barely merit mentioning -- verses that sound like they were reverse-engineered from a MIDI file of the superior but hardly sublime "Gorgeous," chorus that throws in the plodding piano of roaring bravery -- but even beyond the equivalency it implies between Twitter making fun of her and, like, hate crimes, I find the bridge particularly embarrassing, because of how artlessly it reveals its origin: Taylor Swift literally read a Tumblr post (or, the algorithm we call Taylor Swift processed several hundred Tumblr posts) from 2011 saying "stop pitting female artists against each other [handclap emoji etc.]!!!!!!!!!!!" and thought, Wow! Feminism! As for the possibility that this is another masterful turn from Taylor the troll (or troll!Taylor as there is a distressingly high chance she'd say) and by falling for it I've let her win: (1) Taylor Swift is always already winning, this is exactly what Marx was talking about (2) Let me kick it back to my ex one more time: when I asked what she was like these days, he considered and said: "I thought she'd developed self-awareness, but then I realized it was just self-identification." Yeah. [1]

Scott Mildenhall: You know sometimes, when you read the annotations on genius.com, how their deductions and inferences appear to have been made by algorithm? For instance, the notion that this being released on that loud American guy's birthday "seems to support the theory" that one line is about him? This is what would happen if that algorithm was tasked with writing a satirical song. [5]

Stephen Eisermann: My take? This is more lazy allyship than commercialization of pride. Plus, it's kind of a bop. Sucks, then, that Taylor completely misunderstands what shade is -- but did we really expect any better? [6]

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objectivesubjectivity · 7 years ago

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It’s 2005. I’m a junior in college living in a house with 7 other dudes. Beer cans and cigarette ash litter the common room floor. Nightly Mario Party tournaments and 3 AM disco fries from The Argonaut become a near daily ritual. And every morning, without fail, the theme to “Chappelle’s Show” loops indefinitely on our collegiate fireplace: the 35-inch television we spend countless hours gathered around. In an inebriated, sleep-deprived state, someone forgot to turn it off so the home screen of the DVD collection plays and resets and plays again. It stays this way until someone stumbles out of bed and switches the input to play Shadow of the Colossus or to put on a Godard film for class.

And then it repeats.

It was a time we all remember fondly but would all prefer to keep firmly in the past.

It was during that year I discovered Talib Kweli (along with Q and Not U, Gnarls Barkley, Amy Winehouse, of Montreal among countless others) while we combed through episodes of Chappelle for the 5th or 6th time that month. “Get By” was a more than your average banger: smart, aurally rich, and captained by a sick Kanye West beat. So it was no surprise that, when I eventually got my hands on “Quality,” it knocked my socks off. So much so, that, while listening to it this past week, my current feelings on it threw me for a loop.

I tend to listen to my musical proclivities from high school with a more discerning ear; My brain wasn’t fully developed, I had lower standards, I desperately tried to be “outside of the box.” But I don’t think that way when it comes to college. Sarah Lawrence was full of “outside of the box” people so why should I be as critical of my taste then as I was in the preppy, rich-kid halls of Lincoln High?

But as I listened to track after track of Kweli’s slightly behind the beat rhyming layered over slick, radio-ready production, the wordplay and constant consciousness began to grow monotonous and mediocre, and I had to wonder about where my love of this album originally came from.

And it led me back to the debauchery and dirt of Slonim 9.

Perhaps “Quality” is best left as an album I’ll always remember fondly but prefer to keep firmly in the past.

Update

I recently came across a copy of Tom Waits’ “Nighthawks at the Diner,” and didn’t quite know what to do. It is, most definitely, not a “studio album,” but it transcends the standard definition of a “live album” as well. Along with this, I have been struggling with whether or not to throw Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged in New York,” into the ring for a similar reason. The matter is further complicated by the fact that Keith Jarrett’s “The Koln Concert” has been labeled a “Top 100 Contender.”

So, after some thought, here’s what I landed upon: I’m going to remove the live albums from this quest. After this journey is finished, it may be worth it to comb through my live albums with a similar scrutiny, but that is a separate project. I’m going to stick with my initial boundaries: only studio albums, no compilations, no EPs, no live recordings.

What this means tangibly is that I’ll go down to 86 albums on the contender list and 1276 listened to in total (before adding this past week).

What I listened to last week:

Top 100 contenders in bold.

Talib Kweli - Quality

Jurassic 5 - Quality Control: The whole album is a bit much, but Jurassic are really an excellent crew.

Emery - The Question: Up there with Mae for one of the more interesting and least cringe-worthy Christian emo acts.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Question the Answers

The Vandals - The Quickening

Gym Class Heroes - The Quilt: Once again, Busta Rhymes shows up to throw down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJiPsOEEKs

Catch Up Albums (Albums I missed or purchased/acquired since beginning the quest):

Michael Jackson - Bad

Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE

George Michael - Faith

Prince - Musicology: Good News: Prince is fucking great. Bad News: There are 37 more studio albums I now have to find/listen to.

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

Albums listened to in total: 1,287

#college #Sarah Lawrence College #slonim #mario party #disco fries #diner #Yonkers #Bronxville #chappelle's show #talib kweli #kanye west #quality #collection #obsession #top 100 #lists #coabba

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yvaquietdays · 6 years ago

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No Excuses (but also some excuses)

Warning: the following post contains a lot of naval gazing...

I should probably apologise for the lateness of this blog post. Or maybe, on second thoughts, I shouldn’t apologise at all. I never intended this to be constant, bi-weekly affair. Just something I’d use as an outlet for any thoughts, opinions or feelings I had that I felt were worth sharing. In true me style however, updating this thing became a source of anxiety for me. What if I had nothing more to say? What if it’s already been said? What if people will expect more of the blog and I don’t deliver? What if my lack of studying in writing and literature becomes painfully apparent and the blog just becomes a viral embarrassment? Seriously. I know it’s irrational, you don’t have to remind me. But I did my best to quash those nervy b’s, to smash them into the ground with my sturdiest Doc Martens (which I’m excited to share have been worn in again now that the grass-scorching heat has dissipated and that gorgeous northern brew of rain and cloud cover has blessed the streets of London) with vigour, and perhaps a few beads of sweat from my upper lip. Sometimes they’re just whispers, in the back of your head, gently feeding the self doubt with seeds of dissent, until the crop grows more fully into something weedier, which is much harder to stamp out. It’s importantly quell those sneaky whispers regularly. Luckily, I kept doing just that; I only needed to update the blog when it was relevant, and if I didn’t feel like it, I didn’t have to. In the end if I have to apologise, it’s to myself (I am sorry if anyone was waiting on another post; I know I’m being pretty self absorbed here). I mean, I don’t think I kept any of you awake at night, clutching at your bed clothes, covered in tears and mud and ghosts, shrieking “WHEN WILL SHE UPDATE HER BLOG? I PRAYED TO THE HEAVENS AND I CALLED DOWN THE SPIRIT OF UNANNY AND STILL I AM LEFT HERE TO CRY ASUNDER?!” Or something along those lines.

(I don’t know who Unanny is.)

So if I don’t feel like it, I don’t have to. That’s kind of been my modus operandi of late; if I’m not inspired, the universe just isn’t open for business. She ain’t sellin’. I try not beat myself up when I can’t execute an idea, or when I’m trying to write a draft for my novel and my neural pathways seem to be blocked up with desire for cheese and Harry Potter instead of lyrical wit and literary glory. I actively choose not to berate myself, but treat myself. I’ve been working steadily for the past year to nurse myself with kindness and to give myself more respect than before, to step forward in small steps of positivity rather than falling backwards into regret and self doubt. It’s constant, small work, rewiring your brain. But I think it’s been working. Some days I’m not certain, but for the most part, yes.

See, I figured if I pushed myself when I wasn’t jiving with it, if I tried to scratch down the words or search the heavens for the melodies, to pull a sick “beat” out of my arse on Logic, it would certainly be insufferable. The worst kind of creativity. Just awful. If I try to force an idea, it won’t feel good, and that is in direct assault with my philosophy of kindness. I know what you’re thinking though, you have to fail in order to succeed, and I’d agree that is another trite but true platitude that I’ve been trying to adhere to. I’ve spent years avoiding true creativity or expression in the event that it will be the worst thing anyone (myself included) has ever heard, read or bore witness to in the history of all creative outputs, and that’s including Friday by Rebecca Black. Banger.

Eventually, I switched myself off from it, I turned away and kept myself in the dark, only trusting the light when someone had the good grace to give me a compliment. But there’s only so long you can rely on others for your self worth. And that time is finite, my friends. So I’ve been very focused on complimenting myself, on sitting in the light, in trying, failing, trying, failing. Life is a cycle, it all moves, life and death, we all get to start again. All of it. And I do believe that. I do. Just recently I’ve been working and writing and recording some things that have been purely experimental for me; I’ve so enjoyed fleshing out parts and lines, tearing my lyrics apart and compromising and hearing the bad sections and replacing them with better ones, only to change my mind about it being there in the first place, and all of this being a very good, very productive, very nourishing thing.

But when the goddess ain’t calling, I don’t call her and ask her why she isn’t picking up the phone. Instead, I'm just grateful in the moments of proper creativity; I write down my moments of inspiration, I note down the lyrics that flow unbidden into my brain, I find images that source the artistic ideas I want to follow up and I record melodies and song ideas into my phone. In those moments, however fleeting or short, I find comfort, and I thank myself for being such an incredible fucking genius.

OKAY RON. You’re right. I’m not a genius.

My other motto in life is something an old friend said to me, and it has resonated with me ever since. Know what you’re good at, and know what you’re not. Know your skills and worth, but have the grace to admit your flaws and the things that have you stumped. Be strong enough to admit that you’re not perfect and when you can ask for help, you can usually take down anyone who looks at you condescendingly for not knowing just by saying that to them. You’re stronger and wiser for it, I think. There is nothing wrong with not having all the answers. And the guy (and it’s always a guy that laughs at me for asking...sigh), who thinks he is the pot of all knowing is usually stumped by your lack of shame or embarrassment.

So the one thing I’m not good at is persisting. Whether that’s at picking up my guitar more, playing the piano, learning to use Logic or getting to grips with music production. Or maybe it’s just persisting in the face of my fears. I’m not sure, man. Is it the anxiety, or a genuine unease and lack of musical ability that stops me? I’m painfully aware that my knowledge of chords is slim, but I’m also horrendously aware that it’s because I don’t practise enough. So I’m not perfect, I’m not the best at this. I still have some ways to go in improving as an artist. I’m a lazy arsehole, and imma tell you all that.

Frustratingly though - and this is kind of what I wanted to get on to - I keep seeing my former good vibe sentiment all over social media. You know, the one about being kinder to yourself, taking more time, forgiving yourself; “thank your inner diva!” And while I obviously think this a very commendable and instructive philosophy, I also believe it willfully ignores the hard, teeth baring work we have to do to undo all the negativity we’ve practised over the years. I’m a firm believer of the philosophy that we have to be kinder to ourselves to lessen the mental load, but we also have to graft and get our nails dirty, we have to be able to face our fears and we must not become complacent. This is my biggest fear (alongside being alone, failure, tiny clusters of small holes and little girl ghosts), that I’ll become a haven of positivity and light and a beacon for hope and transcendence in my downward dog pose, but I’ll also become a lazy fucker who’s convinced herself she doesn’t have to learn all the chords because the “universe hasn’t made me yet.” We have to tell ourselves when we’re being an insufferable twat, and fast. Pride is no longer fashionable to me. I know this makes me sound like a full tilt bozo, but it’s a genuine concern. In the last year I’ve fully inserted myself, bellend first, into yoga, mindfulness, meditation, exercise and being a zen queen. I’ve challenged myself mentally in ways I wouldn’t have even considered when I was younger, I’ve accepted blame and flaws about myself, I’ve done it all. But my pale white scrotum is still so very privileged and doesn’t want to do the hard work. It doesn’t want to fertilise the soil. I just want to plough into it ‘cos it feels good. But what if I wake up one day, with my pale scrotum in hand, ready to fertilise, and I’ve been left barren and empty? What if I’ve wasted it all trying to save it all up for that one good plough, but then the opportunity never comes? WHAT IF I MISS THE OPPORTUNITIES AND THEN ALL THE FIELDS HAVE BEEN FERTLISED BY SOMEONE ELSE?!?? Okay. So I have to do better. I have to play when I don’t feel like it. I have to learn musical theory so it is ingrained in my synapses. I have to fertilise the bloody soil with all the creative jizz I can muster; whether it’s good, nutritious, exciting stuff, or whether it’s weak and half-arsed. The field doesn’t mind. Any jizz is good jizz. I’m sure you’re wondering where I pulled that analogy out of but I’m sure you can all guess. Hint: you sit on it

The following excuses will not fly; • I don’t feel like it • I’m not inspired • I went for a run this morning and I’m tiiiired (whiney voice required) • I have to finish this Herbology class on my Hogwarts Mystery game • I worked for a whole four hours this morning • The onions made me cry • I’ve already written some lyrics this week (whiney voice also required with this one) • I have no money • I haven’t showered yet • The plants need watering, the towels need washing, need to buy food, all the chores etc. • Charlie Weasley wants to be my friend on Hogwarts Mystery game and I’ve always wanted to be a Weasley • I spent two hours looking at houseplants online and didn’t buy anything • I’ve been trawling the internet for pictures of James McAvoy and his girlfriend to see if he’s truly happy and wouldn’t rather be with me instead Ultimately the only acceptable excuse I will accept is that I’m menstruating. So I urge you all to do the same (persist, not menstruate). Please let me know that you’re guilty of this too. I’m tired of seeing all these bloody proactive “influencers” pouncing out and assaulting me with their life positivity and perfect, shiny, stylish lives.

Ok. I’m looking forward to my next post a little more now. And talking about something else other than jizz and scrotums.

Let’s keep trying. xxx

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We are a small production/post production company for film/TV/marketing and need business insurance. We are located in Sherman Oaks, CA. Would appreciate suggestions for which companies we should reach out to.""

Car insurance? Can i move my points?

How long after i cancel my current insurance can i use my no claims bonus on another insurance policy?? Im with gladiator with van insurance but getting rid of the van and getting a car on friday so am wanting to cancel my van insurance tonight and get car insurance friday so will want to be shifting my no claims over... Can i do this?

""Im 18, how expensive would insurance be for me?""

Im 18, B average, live in Los Angeles, no tickets/crimes, and the bike im looking at is a 250cc. What do you think my rates will most likely be? I want to use it for school""

Would the insurance for a 2004 or 2006 Ford Mustang V6 or V8 be affordable for a 16 year old male?

Please Help...Will i be able to get any health insurance?

Im a 21 yr old female, who benefits from deferred action. im currently working two jobs and going to community college. money is TIGHT. i know being protected under deferred action will not provide me any health insurance help but can i still be able to get ANY help? im a type 1 diabetic as well and the cost of insulin and doctor visits skyrockets every single time. i live with my parents but i dont receive money from them. i guess long story short. can i get any type of health insurance? if i dont die from diabetes ill die from the cost of it hahaha. i live in Southern California if thats any help. thanks in advance :)""

Cheap Car insurance for young and new drivers?

I'm 21 and passed my test a couple of weeks ago. I always knew insurance was going to be an issue and I have found out it is cheaper to go on other peoples policys... but I want to get my own policy so I can get it down. I'll be getting something small, 1.1 or 1.2 for obvious reasons. The cheapest I've managed to find is about 700, thats 3rd party and with a couple of named drivers on. that was with Swift Cover. From a weekend of insurance shopping I've found that all these compare insurance websites are a load of s***. Not had any quotes below 1500. Anyway, does anyone have any tips for getting insurance down more or does anyone know of any insurance companies that specialise in insurance young or new drivers. I just wish they wouldn't tar us all with the same brush... I'm not going to be spending my evenings following other boy racers in Saxos wheelspinning around McDonalds car park. I can see why it's so high though there are so many idiots on the road.""

Why car insurance quotes go up late at night?

Just been look at car insurance for the last few days using comparison sites and I have been noticing the quotes go up and down by a few hundred pound depending on what time of day it is. Anyone know why this happens?

Where can I find car insurance prices?

Which Car Insurance is Known to have the Cheapest Quotes/Rates?

Looking for a car insurance company that's a little easy on a 20 yr. old's pocket.

Insurance change help?

i am with geico and i want to go to allstate do i surrender my plates to switch insurance or do i keep the plates and call they and they will transfer me

Can you pay for Car Insurance in monthly instalments by direct debit using someone else's card?

I want to take out car insurance in my name but I do not have a debit card, can I use my mother's account to pay in monthly installments? All the insurance companies I have tried so far will only take a payment for the full amount and will not spread the payments by direct debit if the card is not in my name. Can anyone please help as I only have a post office account and am unemployed receiving benefits so cannot afford to pay the lump sum and have been turned down for a bank account as I have a poor credit rating.""

Insurance on parents car.....?

If I get my permit next week, how can I drive it if I don't have my name under the insurance for the car?""

Why should a healthy person buy health insurance in 2014?

Because Obamacare eliminates pre-existing condition exclusion, why should a healthy person buy health insurance in 2014? Doesn't it make sense to save your money and buy insurance only once you need it?""

Is car insurance more expensive on newer models?

Im comparing car insurance quotes online. I havent yet got the car im insuring but Im looking at different 206 models. I know there are many factors when it comes to the quote, but does a newer model cost more to insure because this is what I seem to be finding: 2004 models- my insurance is around 470, yet when I checked the same model but a 2005 reg it was nearly 300 pounds more.""

Insurance for 2 cars with 2 different companys?

I have got a citroen xsara. which has got an insurance with Express till 17/02. I am now buying a mazda 3 which am planning to have it insured today itself with Halifax. Is this legal?

Which car would the cheapest insurance (Civic ex (4dr) or Lancer ES)?

Best & cheapest car insurance company in Cincinnati OH?

Which is the best and cheapest car insurance company out there that provides full coverage? I am paying about 180 for 2 cars right now and I want to know if there is anything else out there that can be better. I am currently with Geico

Car Insurance and DVLA?

If I was to put my car in my wifes name with the DVLA would I still be able to insure it in my name and have her as the secound driver or would she have to be the insured and me be the secound driver.

Who Pays For Your Medical Insurance?

Another one...who pays for your medical insurance?? The place i work for pays for my full coverage with NO out of pocket expence on my part and NO money taken out of my paycheck? Does your company also pay for you or do you have to pay some out of pocket money?? If i had a choice i choose them to dock me my half hour lunch as long as they are paying for my medical insurance..thats more important to me..What do you think??

How can Geico claim to be Cheaper then State Farm?

I was very happy with State Farm until I got my new policy this month. They raised my rate by $55 for no reason. I have been with them for 5 years with out ever having put in a claim of any kind. So I went to check out GEICO. Even with my increase from State Farm, GEICO is still twice as much. Same policies identical amounts. State Farm $485. GEICO $865.""

Can any one tell me which health insurance is good and affordable?

my mom and dad don't have health insurance, and i would like to get insurance for them so i will be paying out of my pocket can anyone tell me which insurance is best please thank you""

Any life insurance policies for someone who is 84?

Why would they insure that age, you ask. I dunno. Do they?""

What is the average cost of car insurance for an 18 year old?

I live on my own, I'm a full time college student, I have a part time job, I am female,and I make good grades. I want the cheapest insurance legally possible.""

Will insurance pay for a cracked windshield if it happened before I was insured?

I just purchased a used car, and there's a crack in the windshield, nothing serious, but whatever. How much would it cost me to get it replaced, and would by insurance company pay for it? lol (btw - its a 1998 Ford Explorer)""

Cheapest car insurance for a young driver?

im 20..i own a car. no tickets and no accidents i have had my license for a yr and half where can i find the cheapest car insurance?

How does insurance in general work?

and what are some of the rules of finanace for insurance??

""What is a good site for getting a quote for insurance on a moped, 50cc in the UK?""

I need to insure a 50cc moped in the UK, does anyone no anywhere I can get some good quotes""

Is $$ 785.00 a year to much for Full-Coverage car Insurance ?

It's A.A.A. Insurance. My Honda car is 10 years old. With just 84,500 miles on it. --------------------------- (Such Low Milage cause I only drive 450 miles to 500 miles per month.)""

How much my insurance will go up?

I had an accident which totaled my car. I am 100% at fault for that accident and my car worth 15000$. I have clear driving record and no tickets in past two years. How much will my insurance go up I am paying 900$ for six months

How would obamacare affect our family?

We are a middle class family, smack dab in the middle... Hubby's job provides health insurance, but for a family of 3, which we are, it would cost $200 a week for coverage, with high deductible, so! Since hubby is in exceptional health and hasnt had any medical problems (knock on wood!) he continues without health insurance; I remain on my parents plan as I'm 25 (aka under 26yrs old), and we pay for child health plus for my daughter, for a small fee a month, which depends on our income We simply couldn't afford to pay $800 a month for family coverage, so doing it this way saves us, like $600+! So since we don't make enough to pay for hubbys $800 family plan through work, is obamacare basically going to force hubby to get health insurance through his work, even though it's complete garbage? Or will his employer have more affordable family plan that we could afford? Just trying to understand it all better! Thanks in advance! :-)""

""Full Time College Student, my first time shopping for health insurance?""

I will be 20 in a month. I go to school full time as well as work around 30 hrs a week. My family has been on government health care for a while, but since my father won his social security case they are canceling our coverage by the end of the month. (With no real notice) I need health insurance but I have never shopped for it before and I would like to keep my same doctor as well as I mostly just need the insurance for birth control. I don't make much money and my fiance and I are struggling to find a place to live as well as needing to buy a car and fix my car. I just really need some good advice on how to choose a good heath care provider. and I also know it will probably be rare to find any insurance that will help pay for my birth control.""

Does planned parent hood accept health insurance?

does Planned parent hood accept health insurance ? if they do does anyone know if they will accept aetna health insurance?

Has anyone used Canadian Direct Insurance and experienced any issues or problems?

They offer great rates for auto insurance but before considering switching to them I'm curious as to whether other people in Alberta or British Columbia have had pleasant or unpleasant experiences with them.

Why are some insurance companys rates so much higher then others?

Isn't there a risk guide insurance company's use? shouldn't that be the same or similar for all Insurance company's? I ask because I switched insurance company's and saved $300 for a 6 month policy. That seems to be a bit excessive to be off by that much.

How close is Geico's quote to what you actually get?

I will be purchasing insurance from geico and was wondering how close their quote is to what you will be paying? The sales guy told me it might be higher or lower than the online quote. Has anyone had any experience with this? What are the factors that would cause either an increase or decrease in the online quote when you're actually purchasing? The online quote seemed like it asked for your social security so it clearly did a credit check too.

Insurance change help?

i am with geico and i want to go to allstate do i surrender my plates to switch insurance or do i keep the plates and call they and they will transfer me

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/missouri-insurance-quotes-william-baker/"

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shannancaballero-blog · 7 years ago

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That is actually Odd!

Pompous • I found Susie unbearably ostentatious. • Although the decoration could be quite formal, there is absolutely nothing ostentatious about the food, which is actually down-home excellent • So Princeton looked good for university till I encountered their pretentious admissions associate • The bistro is actually suffocating, pretentious, and also unbelievably pricey • He grumbled that my titles were pretentious as well as unclear, and given off the blue-stocking. • He might be pretentious in various other ways, but he was certainly not posing at the computer keyboard • a pompous film • Bangers and also mash is actually much better than pompous nouvellecuisine, though you could perhaps be actually a little bit extra initial! • He has a pompous design from composing, making use of four quite complicated phrases where one basic one would certainly perform. • That might appear ostentatious to state thus however it is planned in Gramsci's conditions as a natural intellectual job. I really feel that along with so many terrific characters throughout guide that everyone will definitely manage to discover somebody they may associate with. I additionally feel this will certainly hold true as the handful from individuals that have read this up until now all have actually had various characters for who they have actually related to directly or even enjoyed or perhaps detested.

The explanation I state this is actually that I recognize for sure there is numerous, lots of people on the market that lived not always within the business or even violence side of the planet - yet that were actually intensely engageded in the striking culture and the medicines that worked together with it and also over very likely sense that yes - that time frame in their lives back then was most definitely modified in some way by exactly what took place. That person's pompous use of phrases hides the fact that they do certainly not have just about anything important to point out. That's since today (just like at that time), folks misusage the word pompous" all the damn time. Initial idea that you are actually certainly not business person material ... is actually if you are actually looking for a quick and easy or fast technique to construct wealth. The in activity anecdotal purpose from the isle could be had as the literal purpose from the video game, if you want it to possess one. And also mistreating words pretentious" is perhaps one of the most ostentatious traits an individual may do. I hooked up with everybody coming from recent and also I struck the crack-pipe over a four month period in such a way that would have eliminated lots of people after a time's session along with the kind of abuse I was actually self inflicting. The buyer, which had actually devoted the last 4 hours with Leo looked him in the eye and said loudly how much he liked the product and also told Leo that he was actually the greatest sales person he had actually observed in a number of years. However our experts presently possess enough basic, all-round outrages, as well as our company do not should switch ostentatious into yet an additional one, particularly when it presently possesses such a great particular meaning. . Leo Silver, the northeast area salesman has been actually participating in the same pointless rah rah treatments for 3 years and the conferences are actually constantly the very same. I love the end of the video game hugely despite the fact that eventually that's just an incentive. Keep in mind that within this situation, Pretentious.spec _ for/minitest _ for is not needed in the example documents as the intended classes are currently specified in the targets section. Our team spend people for their phrases, our team permit them to discuss the method they experience over some canvass and our team're willing to pay out thousands because of some recognized intensity or even emotional state. Another word that's utilized in the Level F System 2 vocabulary workshop solutions is words aplomb. This attacked me a few days ago that there are actually mosting likely to be a BUNCH OF pretentious, egoistic, lifestyle from daddy's money as well as having 4 A after being actually assembly-line drove with some independent school southerners at Uni. When that is ending up being even more as well as much more an open trick that folks do not just like to view adds (if they really ever before carried out!), and also this at an opportunity. I feel that with so many great personalities throughout the book that everybody will certainly be able to discover an individual they may relate to. I likewise experience this will definitely hold true as the handful from people that have reviewed it thus far all have actually had different personalities for who they have actually associated with personally or really loved or maybe detested. I had ended up being utilized to individuals speaking with me (and also one another) like they were actually all rubbish, so this was a surprising comparison off the normal shopping center crowd. In every grow older there is actually a brand new development of fact, a notification of God to individuals from that production. You will definitely devote your opportunity, expertise and also energy on the people which deserve it. You will be functioning smarter and also making the significant bucks. You could pass the stalk by means of the fire or leave that in boiled water for 30 few seconds, after you cut the stalk 2 ins below completion. Yet some folks do not like it. everything stuff regarding little ones as well as davinci is actually presumption on your component. Should you loved this information and you wish to receive much more information concerning mountains in scotland over 3000 feet; estiramiento--enlamanana.info, assure visit our page. Yes, I assume our company may all of concur they are among one of the most pretentious points in the world. I talked to everybody off recent as well as I hit the crack-pipe over a 4 month time period in a manner that would possess eliminated lots of people after a day's session along with the kind of abuse I was self inflicting. The purchaser, that had actually spent the last 4 hrs along with Leo appeared him in the eye and also announced just how much he really loved the product and said to Leo that he was the best agent he had viewed in a long period of time. Sometimes affluent folks create craft for various other rich people, but that has actually been the case for a lengthy opportunity. That is actually still simply a paint from two individuals with nothing special about this which your normal decently knowledgeable painter nowadays (which our experts possess plenty within this day and age) could create as well as create better. But beyond the work labels, a great deal of developers come across as pompous in each from their language. Nowadays trying to force people to allow disruption is only visiting switch all of them off a lot more. That's an art work from two folks, that's it. In regards to premium through exactly how individuals were actually painted, you may certainly not necessarily even call that great. If being actually authentic is actually thought about a virtue - just what our experts need to strive to be in society - at that point being actually ostentatious is actually thought about a whitewash, a face-palm to your history. Appreciate the uncluttered and also strange looks of Ostentatious Video game and dive wholeheartedly right into a poetic and deeper story. The daffodil hairstyle blooms could avoid from 4 to 8 days, if they are actually properly joined. The inverse is actually usually correct that many of people I encounter which just like tarkovsky find science and mathematics as inevitably worthless pedantry and also location a high worth on the banking company from imaginative matter they have actually accumulated, as well as together have also never carried out any sort of severe analysis in philosophy, several overlooking just about anything appearing like the analytics or even extra deciding on a right one" and also reading more to verification predisposition their means to personal fulfillment. I should also point out that although the initial manual could show up to proclaim exactly what took place, you actually should check out all 3 books to observe that this carries out not paint a happy photo and reveals why folks shouldn't take the roadway that I had. There the word is actually as considerably a word for what is unfamiliar when it comes to what is actually inaccurate. There are actually many other terms for folks along with doubtful taste that I question why we emphasize tarnishing up a flawlessly compliment with all kind of extra connotations. A scrawny 22-year aged along with a mustache that he cannot very carry out does not possess a pretentious mustache." That exact same 22-year outdated can conveniently be actually ostentatious, yet it would have to be actually for his actions, phrases and requirements, certainly not the success or failing of his flavor-saver. I want to feel that we all have a specific degree of good ethical trustworthiness, however individuals in general are actually quite vulnerable to honest disadvantages. That single trait wields more power compared to many people realize, and this is actually constructed in per as well as everyone people. In Mike's own terms, I feel like a ventriloquist. In my opinion the activity is actually an outstanding effort in behalf of the producers even at a private level to make and create ideas and also tips that are actually new as well as without model in videogame market. Reduce the stalk at a quite pointy slant under the water and also compared to allow the water to flow over the contains for 3 mins. Pretentiousness laid outs a degree from dislocation in between our situations as well as the picture our team are trying to project.

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rockinchicagomag · 7 years ago

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Nick Cvijovic’s Top 10 of 2017

Nick Cvijovic slings guitar in Chicago punk band, Butchered.

I always love the end of the year because every media publication puts out their top-whatevers for songs, albums, movies, etc. The problem I face every year is that I get super attached to albums that came out the year prior and then tend not listen to anything new throughout the year until the next best-of lists come out. It’s a ridiculous cycle that I am glad to have broken this year. While most of my top listens were all 2016 albums, I did make time for stuff that came out this year. Just a short disclaimer: it is unanimously decided that Damn. by Kendrick Lamar was the best record of 2017.

I believe it is and everyone should believe it to be as well. It was an incredible work of art both in order and in reverse; however, my list does not contain it. My list represents the albums that meant the most to me throughout 2017 and albums that I will consider classics until the end of music. I played these albums endless amounts of times over the past year so I know what I like, I think. I whittled this list down from 35 different albums that I deemed my favorite and I still think ten albums is far too little to rank after this year’s offering of music. Whatever, here I go anyway��

10. Pulled Apart By Horses- The Haze // Mobina Galore- Feeling Disconnected

(Alright, I already have a tie, big deal.) Pulled Apart by Horses is a heavy garage-y band that brings so much more than your standard Ty Segall or whatever the flavor-of-the-week garage bands are in nowadays. The Haze is a perfect bar brawl soundtrack that reminds me of those early revival bands like The Libertines and the Fratellis, albeit with more fuzz. That’s what makes this record so good; there are tons of catchy melodies, great musicianship, and a liberal use of fuzzy guitar. It’s a simple formula that makes this album so much fun.

[Recommended track: “Hotel Motivation”]

Also tied with this record is Winnipeg’s Mobina Galore, who put out Feeling Disconnected, the duo’s debut album. I couldn’t believe these girls were a two-piece when I first listened. The songwriting is incredible and is perfect fare for any punk, but also has a hardcore vibe. These girls blew up too after this album, and deservedly so; touring with the likes of Against Me! and Propaghandi- both bands that are clear influences on Mobina Galore.

[Recommended track: “Vancouver”]

9. Zeal & Ardor- Devil is Fine

I’m going to quickly preface this by saying that I could have sworn this album came out in 2016 but Spotify says 2017 so screw it. Anyway, this album is the only good thing to ever come out of 4chan. Manuel Gagneux is a Swiss-American musician who came to New York after fleeing his Swiss Army duties and decided to ask the cesspool of 4chan what kind of album to make. They responded to his request by saying black metal and the blues, although not in those words because it’s 4chan. Gagneux’s debut as Zeal & Ardor takes black metal’s typically buzz saw guitar and pairs it with his own rendition of Satan-worshipping delta blues chants. It’s seriously the most original metal offering that I can think of, becoming almost hypnotic during the call and response verses channeling old slave songs of the mid 1800s and then ripping your stupid head clean off when the screaming and instrumentation kick in, and then become almost danceable when the two are blended. I don’t know, I get too excited talking about this record, and there’s so much to dissect within it. While sticking to blues-inflected black metal, there is also lounge and EDM styled songs which break up the record wonderfully. It’s all so cool, dudes. [Recommended track: “Come On Down” ]

8. The Dopamines- Tales of Interest

I am a sucker for self-deprecating punk rock and Cincinnati’s The Dopamines have always done it the best since their debut in 2008. Nine years later they are still screaming about their jobs and being broke; typical punk rock themes. But they have great harmony and melody within every seemingly-three-chord song that really separates them from every other band within their genre. Tales of Interest is full of songs that are believable; what I mean is that there is so much feeling in every note, chord, and lyric that it never ever gets whiny. Couple that with the Dopamines ability to have awesome songwriting that can rip on one chord over and over without ever getting tiresome and you have a perfect Midwest punk record. The dudes also incorporate some super heavy metal riffing on a few of the tracks which makes this album the best for getting too drunk and yelling at the top of your lungs until your neighbors call the cops. Stupid neighbors, they’ll never understand. [Recommended tracks: “Ire” and “Kaltes Ende”] https://radgirlfriendrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ire-2

7. Woe- Hope Attrition

I had the hardest time trying to decide to put Power Trip’s incredible Nightmare Logic or Bell Witch’s Mirror Reaper in this spot because both of those albums were very important this year, not just in metal, but in the mainstream as well. Hell, Pitchfork loved both. Well, the mainstream’s opinions are crap and Woe had the best metal record, and nobody was really talking about it. Hope Attrition came to my attention only a few weeks ago but I think I have listened to it once or twice a day since then. Black metal seems to be pretty repetitive stylistically recently (shoooooeeeeegggaaazzzeeee), but Woe brings an album that is equal parts epic and brutal. Sure, there are blast beats and guttural vocals, but Hope Attrition also throws in some high pitched screams, clean vocals, and interesting song structure. The guitars fucking wail too, and feature some of the coolest sounding solos I have heard in a long time. This album differs from a lot of black metal lyrically too, singing about real life evils of white supremacy and our nation’s ineptitude. It’s refreshing (for me at least) to have metal be topical, and to lean more leftist. None of it matters anyway because you think Mirror Reaper should have been on here. Shove it. [Recommended track: “No Blood Has Honor”]

6. Rozwell Kid- Precious Art

One of the lines that begins this album states, “I’m down to my underwear because I through it all away in a Wendy’s trash can” and if you don’t think that is the best damn line ever than you are a moron. Rozwell Kid continues in the tradition of making guitar rock awesome again, essentially making a record that Weezer should be doing, but would get shit on for because it’d still be too weird for them. Precious Art’s themes are personal, but filtered through wit and loud dueling guitars. Songs thematically range from losing it, to romantic hangs watching UHF, to a song about wanting to be something else- specifically a dog. Everything Rozwell Kid does is a lot nerdy, a lot sarcastic, or a lot goofy, to veil deeply emotional writing but they never fail to keep the guitars loud as hell. [Recommended track: “Wendy’s Trash Can”]

5. The Eradicator- The Eradicator

The first time I ever saw the Eradicator live was when he opened for Direct Hit! at the Double Door for the Wasted Mind release show. I had seen the sketch before (the Kids in the Hall sketch) and was incredibly excited to hear how one guy was going to base an entire set of songs off of one or two 5 minute sketches from an old TV show. The sketch is about a masked squash player trying to work up the ranks of his local D-squash league. He eats, breathes, and sleeps Squash, and the Eradicator embodies everything that this character was. I found out soon that not only are the songs hilarious, but they also shred. The Eradicator can get everyone in the crowd, even if it’s their first time hearing him, to sing along to songs about his quest to climb the D-squash ladder. The songwriting features a mix of straight forward punk rock to hardcore bashing but always stay to true to reminding the listener that football sucks, tennis sucks, baseball’s cool, curling rules, but they’re not the sports for him. [Recommended track: “I’m a Squash Man”]

4. Metz- Strange Peace

What would any list of best albums be if it didn’t include Canada’s finest? A list not worth publishing that’s for sure. I was so worried that Metz would fall into a hole of making a softer sounding indie rock album, similar to Cloud Nothings new record, but am I glad that I was wrong. Also, of course they wouldn’t do that; they’re one of the loudest and most raucous bands around. Strange Peace is filled with wall to wall bangers, some coming in under a minute and some almost pushing the six minute mark. This record is sort of similar to their other albums, and that is what makes it great. Metz doesn’t need to change up their sound too much to keep any listener happy; they stick with the incredible drumming, thundering bass, noisy guitar work, and catchy yet screaming vocals.

[Recommended track: “Mr. Plague”]

3. IDLES- Brutalism

I got turned on to IDLES from one of my students, actually. Upon first listen, I was like, “what is this?” It was so out there from my normal tastes that I couldn’t stop listening. IDLES fills this album with simplistic musicality, akin to Plague Vendor or Protomartyr, but it’s in the vocals and song writing that really caught me. The songs on Brutalism are a collection of working class angst and sarcastic commentary on pop culture all almost spoken, rather than sung. That does not take away from the catchiness of it, though. All the songs clearly come from the heart and are brutally honest, anthems for those who are dissatisfied and bored as hell. I’d pair this record with whiskey and percosets at 8am after being laid off from your shitty job. [Recommended track: “Mother”]

2. Japandroids- Near To The Wild Heart of Life

Japandroids has been one my favorite bands for a long time. I absolutely love how incredibly huge their sound is for being a two-piece, although with a butt load of amps. Japandroids had been relatively silent since their last album, Celebration Rock, which came out in 2012 to great reception. Everyone was fairly skeptical if they could repeat the anthems and sing-alongs that that album brought, but they totally blew everyone out of the water. This album may seem just like a regular rock album to some, but the songs are just so perfect to blast whether you’re having a bad day, a great day, alone, with friends, drinking, hungover, whatever. I can’t help but get chills when this album comes on; the dynamics are amazing and make you feel alive. If there was any single record that 2017 needed to feel better about itself, it’s Near To The Wild Heart of Life. [Recommended track: “In a Body Like a Grave”]

1. ’68- Two Parts Viper

Josh Scogin is the best vocalist in hardcore; hands down. When his last band, hardcore heroes The Chariot, broke up, I was so disappointed that we wouldn’t have any new music from him in the future. Then ’68 dropped two tracks in 2014, followed by one of the most awesome albums ever, In Humor and Sadness. ’68 keeps with their untouchable blend of hardcore and rock and roll on Two Parts Viper, a sort of combination of The Chariots spastic riffs and songwriting, and White Stripes-styled two-piece heavy blues. Scogin’s lyrics really shine through on this album as well, coming off as spoken word at parts before the crushing guitar and drums bash in. Where there’s feedback on this album, there is Scogin’s poetry; where there is screaming, there is singing. This is one of the most dynamic records to come out in a long time, going back and forth from heavy rock-oriented riffs and grooves to chanting and Josh’s inimitable screaming, even throwing in the oddball sample in the middle of a song. There is nothing that comes close to ’68 in terms of style and I don’t think there ever will be. 10 out 10 snakes.

[Recommended track: “Whether Terrified or Unafraid”]

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dgaf-dgaf-blog · 8 years ago

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The Ultimate Embarrassing Breakup Playlist

By Choates n’ Hoes

That’s right, everyone, as you may have gleaned from the title, I have yet again made the mistake of thinking that a male saw me as a human worth knowing and not simply a vagina who talks a lot. How crazy was that?! God! Here’s how it went down. It got pretty messy:

ME: Hi, how are you?

HIM: Good, how are you?

ME: Ugh, actually, now that you ask, I have a big midterm that I’m not prepared for on Tuesday and I’m feeling pretty tired and my left eye is kind of itchy and—

HIM: WHOA, holy shit, Jesus Christ, that is WAY too much information, you’re supposed to just say “okay” and have your shirt off by the second syllable.

Wow! I’m cringing just reading it. I can’t believe what a psycho I was! Just call me Velcro! Just call me Saran Palin! Just call me that-piece-of-toilet-paper-that-got-stuck-to-your-shoe-and-embarrassed-you-in-front-of-everyone because I sure am clingy!

Anyway, he ended things pretty quickly after that disastrous gaffe of mine. So, naturally, I’ve decided to take some time to myself. Process this in a healthy way by lying in bed, cancelling all my plans, and sobbing to my favorite playlist. In the interest of spreading the love, I’ve decided to share some choice tracks with you: for when the deep cuts aren’t just on the b-side of the record, but also on your heart.

Yellow—Coldplay

You may think this is a great breakup song because of the intense melodrama of such lines as, “for you I’d bleed myself dry.” This is misleading, though. You’re gonna start listening to this song in the throes of misery. Perhaps you’ll be in the fetal position. You may let a tear slip from your eye. And then you’re gonna remember this song is about Gwyneth Fucking Paltrow. And you’ll realize that if someone can muster this much enthusiasm about that woman, who is the human equivalent of a Q-tip dipped in a wheatgrass shot, love might just be out there for you, too.

Landslide—Fleetwood Mac

That’s right, asshole! I’ve been afraid of changing cause I built my life around you! I gave you everything! I left parties at 1 AM instead of 1:30 just to hook up with your sorry ass! I slept over and made eye contact with your frat brother washing our hands together in the bathroom at 6 AM! I memorized your schedule just so I could happen to pass by the LSC after 2As!

Beyond the obvious relevance of this song to anyone who has ever been in love or had a birthday or felt a single feeling in their life, is there anyone better to model your life off of than Stevie Nicks?! She’s been relevant for the past several decades. She dresses like a witch. She makes nothing but bangers for sad girls. Wait—forget about whoever that boy was. Focus on becoming Stevie.

Hold Up—Beyonce

If Beyonce gets cheated on, there’s no hope for any of us. This one is crucial for the “acceptance” stage.

Back to December—Taylor Swift

This song hails from a simpler time: when a Taylor Swift breakup was actually still kind of surprising instead of, you know, part of the whole act. This song is a lot of fun to sing dramatically, until you remember it’s about Taylor Lautner. And then you remember that Taylor Lautner was actually kind of a big deal when you were in middle school. And then you remember he was a big deal because of the Twilight series. And then you remember how into Twilight you were. And then, to your horror, you can’t remember whether you were Team Edward or Team Jacob!!! Wait, Taylor Lautner was Jacob, right?! Oh god, who was I?! Where did my youthful innocence go?!

Chelsea Hotel No. 2—Rufus Wainwright

This song is pretty unrealistic for most of us ladies to listen to because it includes a lyric about your lover giving you head, but it’s still full of longing and sadness that you may need right now, if you can handle living in that fantasy land.

Someone Like You—Adele

Never mind, I’ll find someone like you—because 90% of the dudes on this campus look exactly the damn same. And half of them are named Alex. Or Seth. Or, like, Franklin F. VanDesRosen III. See, you’ll find a rebound in no time: and chances are you already know their entire name and their entire story!!

Do I Wanna Know?—Arctic Monkeys

No, you don’t. Whether it’s what he did with his pledge brothers or the true story behind that girl in the left-hand background of his third most recent profile picture...you don’t wanna know. Click out of social media. Watch some newscaster fails instead—infinitely better for morale.

Lost/Inside Our Minds—John Vincent III

“I wrote about you...fuckin’ waste of time.” This is a very personal addition for me as a writer, because no lyric has ever resonated with me so deeply. However, you don’t have to be a writer to relate: think of how tired your thumbs were that time you and your best friend deconstructed what his eye contact across the library meant over text. Fuckin’ waste of time!

Lay Me Down—Sam Smith

Maybe you’re feeling lonely in that big wide twin XL bed all by yourself. This is a great song for when you want to remember how nice it felt to be held in another human’s arms—for the 5 seconds he would do that before telling you he had a big paper due Monday and, you know, it might be best if you both got a good night’s sleep. That means you should go.

What Goes Around...Comes Around—Justin Timberlake

Okay. Okay. Okay. LISTEN!!! This song dropped when we were all in middle school, so we were too preoccupied making sure we were layering as many A&F camis under our matching polo shirts as possible to realize that this song is a fucking banger. Someone did our pal Justin so dirty. This is also a great breakup song because it’s, like, 7 full minutes long, so you can really wallow. Don’t have time for that? Just want some quick catharsis between classes? Skip right to that angry coda. Holy shit. Our 12-year-old selves had no idea.

Anything by Sufjan Stevens or The National

If you were so into that guy that these songs start resonating with you, you’re fucked. You’re done. Time to transfer.

Elastic Heart—Sia

Sometimes you really need to scream, and if you do so with Sia in the background, you can just claim you were singing along with her. Boom—plausible deniability.

It’s Quiet Uptown—Original Cast of Hamilton

I understand this is about the death of Alexander Hamilton’s eldest son Philip, but it’s just sooo sad, right?! Also, Alexander and Eliza had another son and named him Philip, too, which is a rebound if I ever saw one and proof that you’ll be just fine.

Goodbye Earl—Dixie Chicks

If you’ve read all the way to the end of this that’s more than enough time wasted on some dude. It’s time to get back in the game. Kill that son of a bitch and move on.

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Smokey Stories: The Capsule Car

We begin this episode on the first day of January 1964. Smokey has “survived” his Speedway experience to this point and has reached a stage where conventional Indy car design and construction won’t get the job done, at least to his reckoning. He sketches out a combination of turbine engine and a fiberglass body that weighs “five ounces to a square foot.” Among other changes to conventional chassis components (including aluminum brake drums and an experimental Corvette aluminum independent drive assembly) he plans to use a “rubber fuel cell” carrying the customary seventy-five gallons of fuel.

But most noteworthy concept was that the driver would be placed in a small “capsule as a completely separate component and bolted to the mainframe with five bolts. Also, this will be a one-pedal car. Brake and throttle are combined in one dual function control. The clutch and gearshift will be in gearshift control in one lever.” Actually, it worked out quite well with three speeds forward, plus reverse gear with just cams and cables. “Well, hell, what do you expect from a drawing on a sheet of three-foot-wide brown paint masking paper? We got 119 days to build it.”

Not out of the ordinary for Smokey and his planning, an initial problem arose that had a major impact on his intentions. “On March 1, I call the turbine company and say, ‘Ship me the turbine, I need it now.’ They say, ‘It’s ready. Send a check for $34,000.’ I say, ‘You said you’d loan it for free.’ ‘We will, but the overhaul charge will be $34,000 and that’s bare cost.’ “Well, I couldn’t even come up with $3400 bucks, let alone add another zero, so ‘Adios turbine.’ I’ve got enough stuff to put another Offy together.”

But this time around, Smokey has a partner and a sponsor. Over time, he’d at least come to the realization that his prior Indy enthusiasm had gotten him into more than one financial crunch. “The partner is a weasley, central European sharpie named George Chalik. Always wore a couple giant diamonds. And old, rich bastard, owned a rubber company of some kind. The cat was sharp. I signed a worthless contract with him (although Smokey didn’t know this at the time of signing). He owned half the car, never put any money in it. I billed him but couldn’t collect. I said, ‘This ain’t fair.’ He said, ‘Next time you’ll learn how to read a contract.’ ‘OK, you got me,’ but mentally I ignore him.”

Right here, Mr. Chalik learned that messing with Smokey was a high-risk proposition, and there were almost always resulting circumstances that were skewed in Smokey’s favor. “I won’t even let him in the garage. When he did get in, I’d take his glasses and give ’em a hardness with a ball-peen hammer on both lens. They failed. That then changed his number one problem from getting into the garage to getting another pair of ‘cheaters.’ Without ’em he couldn’t see for sour owl crap. Second time I tested his goggles, he got the message. Without glasses, if you grabbed one of those rings and acted like you were going to pull it off his finger, he’d go goofy.”

Actually, it was George Hurst who put up the $40,000 for sponsorship. (More on this a bit later in these episodes. George’s arrival and ensuing Indy experience was apart from the racing and a story unto itself.) “That’s what I had to use, plus I guess ’bout twenty grand that I scraped up.”

But before we proceed on the evolution of his new “side-car” design, it’s worth spending a short time knowing how Smokey came to this departure from then-conventional Indy car design.

“So you’re thinking, where in the hell did you get the plan to build such a goofy car? Over Regansburg, Germany, in 1944, I was driving a B17 carry ten tons of remodeling equipment up there to an aircraft bearing factory when I see a twin-engine, very skinny airplane hauling ass with a small capsule on one side with a pilot in it. Turns out two small shapes with same total frontal area as one single shape have less parasitic drag. But it wasn’t until 1962 I got the answer from that trip to Freidseckhoven, Germany.”

As an aside, this is the type and level of awareness that characterized Smokey, particularly when it came to applying various technologies (although frequently modified from what he initially observed) to his automotive/racing involvements. It was a trait.

But back to the new car. Given his problem with the turbine engine company, “I replace turbine with Offy, not too tough, but one aspect is how you gonna cool the radiator? I give my first idea a try in my wind tunnel and first shot out of the barrel I got it. Man, simple and effective as well. Aluminum, cross-flow radiator (also very lightweight).”

Not out of the ordinary back then, the only manufacturing source for such radiators was the Harrison Radiator company in Rochester, New York. “Somehow, I got the Harrison engineers pissed off at me (really not all that hard for me to do with engineers and lawyers). They say, ‘Don’t ever come back.’ I say, ‘OK, if that’s the way you feel, screw you, too.’ This was not a wise move.”

Now, while sorting out the construction problems with the new design, Smokey realizes that when all is said and done, “I got to have a driver. I need a smaller size hero.” Bobby Johns comes to mind. Right size, brave, pretty damn good driver, never really got a shot in the first class equipment, wasn’t a wall banger. Well, maybe not goofy enough to want6 it. Never know if you don’t ask, right? Answer is, ‘Hell, yes. I’ve been wanting to go to Indy my whole racing life.’ No question. I hit the deal dead center. Come on over to shop so we can fit you in the capsule. He ain’t got a clue, never sat in an open-wheel car, and when he sees how tiny this car is and where he sits I’ve sure it dampened his enthusiasm some. But it’s a deal. No nothing, just a 50-50 prize money split. And because Hurst gearshift was the sponsor, I think maybe George Hurst gave Bobby a couple bucks for expenses.”

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Following some last-minute button-up work on the car, that included replacing the initial four-bar rear axle design with a four-radius rod setup in the span of forty-eight hours (a near impossible task for mere mortals), he loads up and heads for Indy.

Not long after his arrival, a new Indy rule pops up that requires cars to have a font bumper. “This pisses me off. Kinda getting like NASCAR now. So for front bumper I trace lil’ Smokey’s hands (his son and a pit crew member) on some Moly plate and chrome ’em up. A pair of steel hands, fingers stretched out, are front bumper. Yup, passed inspection.”

Also, upon his arrival at the Brickyard, he experienced again the skepticism that seemed to follow him in this environment. “When we got to Indy, the unveiling put half of the experts in a state of shock, including the officials. I heard it whispered, ‘That screw-ball’ is nuts, and this proves it.’ But there was a very important one person who loved it. His name was Tony Hulman. Not a bad ally. He owned the farm. And a pretty fair racer from Europe named Colin Chapman just stared at it for hours.”

So there’s no question that throughout Smokey’s participation at Indy what he brought to the track was not only unconventional but innovative. And, in many instances, his competition thought was this was to their disadvantage. Perhaps it was. But you will recall that it was the freedom, or lack of thick rules book, that drew him to the Speedway in the first place. He was simply exercising his rights and allowances that this form of racing enabled.

Next month, we’ll share some bits and pieces about Smokey’s experiences with George Hurst (and ladies) and begin setting the stage for how his Indy exploits gained the attention of some rather significant OEM executives who wanted to utilize his talents at a much higher level than his involvement with refurbishing old Kurtis chassis/car remnants and struggling his way through the financial woes of an Indy newbe.

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