#fuck you joseph your copy of news of the world is mine now bitch

[sofarsogoodsowhat]

my mom told me the johnny cash records i took were probably my grandpa’s :) the wham + george michael + all the new wave shit was hers and all the rock ones were my weird republican uncle’s and now im getting my freaky gay hands all over em

[labelleangel]

Tag of Basic Information ~ okie dokie so I just saw I was tagged in this and it's like 3:30 in the morning and I can't sleep (plus I saw this video on sleep paralysis and it freaked me out) (plus I'm on my phone which makes things tough) (and thank you Emily for tagging me I'm too tired to search up your username rn but thank you ily bae) ABC tag AGE – 18 BIGGEST FEAR – probably being disliked or being a disappointment/a failure. Also clowns, fuck clowns. I used to be extremely scared of spiders and I still am but I'm able to kill them now CURRENT TIME – 3:39 am but will probably be after 4am when I finish this DRINK YOU LAST HAD – Water EVERYDAY STARTS WITH – Coffee, a pb&j, and a clementine FAVORITE SONG – I have a lot but I'm gonna try to keep it brief. Any Disney song, My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, Evermore by Josh Groban, Ride by Lana Del Rey, a shitload of Beatles songs there's too many to list, Monkees songs, and songs from Newsies, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat GHOSTS, ARE THEY REAL? – Bill Nye and other scientists say nah but I've seen a couple things that make me think "shit, probably" HOMETOWN – ive been told it's a stereotype that we're bitchy and I don't doubt it. But we're hipster af I feel IN LOVE WITH – My dog Angus, Leo DiCaprio, speaking french and anything french related (if you're from Quebec or France hmu let's communicate a bitch is tryna become fluent) and nature. JEALOUS OF – People who are straight A students easily and people with clear skin KILLED SOMEONE – Shhhh LAST TIME YOU CRIED – idk probably yesterday MIDDLE NAME – Lindsay NO. OF SIBLINGS – one ONE WISH – to be able to speak all the languages of the world fluently PERSON I LAST CALLED/TEXTED – My homegirl Gillian (love you boo) QUESTION YOU’RE ALWAYS ASKED – I used to be asked if I was in college when I was still in high school but now I'm in college I'm not asked that anymore lol REASON TO SMILE – Emily had a FANTASTIC list so mine would probably be similar to hers. LEGGO: sunrises and sunsets. The beach. A walk through the woods on a sunny day. Snuggling up with a pet. Snuggling up with a person. Seeing a loved one for the first time in forever. Disney movies. Romance movies and fairy tales. Hearing something in a language you're trying to learn and being able to understand it. Finding seashells on the beach. Traveling to a new place and seeing the landscape change. Confiding in someone and having them listen to you. Intellectual and deep conversations. Concerts. Unity when tragedy strikes the world. Love. Being in love. Being in a great big lake and floating on your back and closing your eyes. MUSIC. A GOOD ASS PLAYLIST FOR ANY OCCASION. EMPHASIS ON LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE. There's so much more of any of y'all wanna discuss messaging works lmao SONG LAST SANG - Love Potion °9 by i forgot TIME YOU WOKE UP – 10:30 am UNDERWEAR – none cus I'm in my pj's VACATION DESTINATION? – I'm trying to get to Quebec this summer but I love traveling in general. I'd honestly go anywhere WORST HABIT – picking and peeling the whites of my nails off and probably being messy when it comes to my room YOUR FAVORITE FOOD – I LOOOOVE SPAGHETTI AND JUST PASTA IN GENERAL ZODIAC – Leo BOLD tag ~ listen, a bitch is tired so I'm just gonna put yesses next to them if they apply cus I'm still on my phone and I don't think I can bold anything → appearance: I I am 5′7″ or taller- yes 5'8"
I I wear glasses
I have at least one tattoo
i have at least one piercing - yes, my ears
i have brown eyes i have short hair
my abs are at least somewhat defined- i have a couple bumps near the top but they're not totally "defined" i have or have had braces -yes I hated them 
There is something I would change about the way I look - yes I'm trying to get my hair cut into layers soon → personality: I My Hogwarts house is: Gryffindor Hufflepuff - gryffindor af (lowkey used to be in ravenclaw but it's a long story and now I'm in gryffindor) Ravenclaw Slytherin 
I am an introvert 
i like/love meeting new people - yes yes yes
people tell me that i’m funny - maybe, but it's mostly me telling myself 
i enjoy physical challenges -sometimes
i enjoy mental challenges -It depends 
i’m playfully rude with people i know well - yes but I try not to be too mean 
i started saying something ironically and now i can’t stop saying it - yes its awful someone help 
There is something I would change about my personality -yup → ability: I I can sing well 
i can play an instrument 
i can do over 30 pushups without stopping
i’m a fast runner - I guess???
i can draw well - i have sketches all over the place 
i have a good memory 
I’m good at doing math in my head 
i can hold my breath underwater for over a minute - I can hold my breath for 9 hours
i have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling 
i know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch
i know how to throw a proper punch - yes thanks to my brother → hobbies: I i enjoy playing sports - yes i love playing soccer and baseball and volleyball and just being active 
I’m in a orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else
i have learned a new song in the past week
i work out at least once a week - I try to
i’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months - yes cus volleyball kept me in pretty good shape and now that's over idk what else to do with myself 
i have drawn something in the past month
i enjoy writing - yes and the best gift you could give me is a journal
Fandoms are my #1 passion
i do or have done martial arts → experiences: I i have had my first kiss - yes
i have had alcohol - yes
i have scored the winning goal in a sports game - yes
I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting
i have been at an overnight event -yes
i have been in a taxi 
I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year - I should've added hospitals to the list of things I'm afraid of, but thankfully no i haven't been to the ER lately
I have beaten a video game in one day
i have visited another country - Canada ig??
i have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts - One Direction yo → relationship: I I’m in a relationship 
i have a celebrity crush - basically any cute actor but it always comes back to Leo DiCaprio 
I have a crush on someone I know 
i have been in at least 3 relationships 
I have never been in a relationship
i have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them 
I get crushes easily - same as what Emily said, i get infatuated but i don't get crushes super easily. But if i like you i god damn like you A LOT
I have had a crush on someone for over a year
I have been in a relationship for at least a year 
i have had feelings for a friend → my life: I i have at least one person i consider a “best friend” - hey gilli and Teags (and my follege besties OF COURSE) where you at 
i live close to my school my parents are still together -yep
i have at least one sibling - yes
i live in the united states -yes
There is snow right now where I live
i have hung out with a friend outside of school in the past month - I hung out with friends in the past two days actually 
i have a smartphone - yes it's what I'm using to painstakingly type all this out on 
I have at least 15 CDs 
I share my room with someone → random shit: I i have breakdanced 
i know a person named jamie 
I have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce 
i have dyed my hair
i’m listening to one song on repeat right now 
i have punched someone in the past week
i know someone who has gone to jail -yes but I can't say who
I have broken a bone 
I have eaten a waffle today 
i know what i want to do with my life - mostly, I just hope it all works out
i speak at least 2 languages fluently - IM FUCKING TRYING. IM TRYING SO DAMN HARD. IMMA GET THERE SERIOUSLY IF YOU ARE A NATIVE FRENCH SPEAKER HIT ME UP!!!!! 
i have made a new friend in the past year - @ All the friends I made at college you're all the bomb Okay so now imma tag @squiinty and @plurth and @natsukashiiii I legit copied and pasted @yixingding 's post and re-wrote everything (iPhone probs) and it's now 4:05 am lol but this was fun my Leo ass loves talking about myself so I invite literally anybody to do this too and THANK YOU EM&M FOR TAGGING ME ITS SO FUNNY I SAW THIS AT LIKE 3:30 IN THE MORNING I MISS YOU BOO

[dustedmagazine]

Joseph Burnett: 2016 in review

2016, you shan’t be missed. Thus far, most year-end round-ups outside of Breitbart and whatever equivalent we have for Der Stürmer these days (er, Breitbart?) have lamented the hideous direction the world has taken over the last 12 months. They’ve reeled off a list of lost artistic heroes that suggests whomever has taken up the job of ferrying the dead over the Styx once failed an audition to be harpist for Zeus and has a Manson-esque grudge against the talented as a result. So, whilst I can’t not mention the trauma of losing Bowie, Prince, Pauline Oliveros, two-thirds of ELP, Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman, Leonard Cohen, Andrzej Wajda, Dale Griffin of Mott the Hoople and my personal most harrowing Tony Conrad, like the shameful Brexit vote and baffling Trump triumph, I’d rather not dwell on these matters. The three letters “R.I.P.” convey more than I ever could. And I mean “R.I.P. humanity,” not just those individuals mentioned above. Actually, fuck you, 2016.  

So yeah, war, a refugee crisis, prejudice, nationalism and dead artists dominated 2016, but there was music too, and some of it was outstanding (as was a film that for me was the most important made in the UK for over a decade: I, Daniel Blake). Sadly, two stand-out albums from 2016 came from artists who departed this mortal coil not long afterwards: David Bowie’s Blackstar and Pauline Oliveros’ duo album with another casualty of 2016, Connie Crothers, First Meeting Still Sounding. The latter was only released as a tribute to pianist Crothers and tragically became one for Oliveros as well. It’s a wondrous meeting of two expansive and forward-thinking talents and a fitting farewell from both. As, in a rather different way, was Blackstar. I only heard the album after David Bowie had joined the ever-growing list of departed icons, so it seems impossible to divorce it from his passing, especially the wonderful “Lazarus.” But in addition being a farewell from an artist who had a profound impact on my life, it’s his most solid and musically coherent album in about two decades, benefitting notably from a gorgeous jazz-inflected production. An additional shout out must go to Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker, a bleak, introspective collection of songs that also sees an artist in the twilight of his existence reflecting on that stark reality.  

The legendary ECM Records had something of a bumper year to please admirers of their particular stylistic production and jazz fans as a whole. Wadada Leo Smith —whose colossal America’s National Parks was another highlight— teamed up with Vijay Iyer for the quietly spectacular A Cosmic Rhythm with Every Stroke, Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi produced an undoubted masterpiece in Narrante, and Jack deJohnette bridged past and present on his delightful In Movement to deliver an achingly poignant reflection on the travails of African-Americans as they face racism and policemen’s guns. Special mention also to Theo Bleckmann, Carla Bley, Wolfert Brederode, Tigran Hamasyan and Ches Smith for their own masterful releases on ECM. Sarathy Korwar produced an intriguing post-jazz exercise in the form of Day to Day on NinjaTune, and beyond the specific realm of jazz the field of experimental music continues to throw up exciting and challenging works even in these straightened times, with composer Ben Johnston, Graham Lambkin, Cindytalk, Rhodri Davies and Richard Dawson’s Hen Ogledd and Oren Ambarchi all making it into my top 30 list. And I can’t not mention the wondrous drone works of Catherine Christer Hennix (both archival and new), Yves Tumor’s fractured pop or Gary Mundy’s expansively beautiful noise experiments in his solo incarnation as Kleistwahr.   

But, and this is purely on a personal level, electronic music delivered the most consistently exciting music of the year. In the UK, producers continue to probe where we go after dubstep and its quasi-punk levelling of form, something most notable in Kuedo’s Slow Knife, which may just have provided us with a clear run into the future. Meanwhile, many a British producer continued to delve into the hidden interstices of reality, as evidenced by Demdike Stare’s weird meshing of harsh techno and dub, the amalgamation of dark poetry and brittle electronica of eMMplekz, Pye Corner Audio’s horror-sci-fi dance and the sepulchral ambient techno of Andy Stott. And what to make of Dean Blunt’s sardonic take on Brexit Britain as Babyfather? His oblique but piercing political stance found an echo across the pond with Fatima Al Qadiri’s Brute, and even — away from electronica per se — Frank Ocean’s magnificent follow up to Color Orange, Blonde. But it’s impossible to look past Grumbling Fur and Furfour as the most perfect album of the year. Going beyond the promise of their past releases, Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker elevated pop song into the most enthralling medium of expressing both joy and mystery, transcending dance, avant-garde, folk and hauntology in the process.  

It’s perhaps not surprising that in this fractured world we find comfort in the folk expressions of specific locations. The aforementioned Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi took the exotic folk of their native Iran and spliced it with European avant-garde, whilst Aşıq Nargilə delivered an intoxicating aperçu of Georgian and Azeri troubadour music with a live set from London’s Café Oto, superbly preserved on vinyl by the diligent peeps of the venue themselves. Closer to home (well mine), Laura Cannell continues to sketch and sublimate the landscapes of England’s East Anglia via her recorders and fiddle. Also plundering and resurrecting the traditions of the UK’s hidden reverse is the Folklore Tapes label, a wonderful combination of record company and research project whose founders Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker have dedicated the last five or so years to resurrecting forgotten traditions of the land of my birth, in musical form. In 2016, two reissues of their Devon series (for those unfamiliar with UK geography, Devon is one of our wildest and most historically deep counties) and a new set of music inspired by the Black Dog mythology of England, crystallized Folklore Tapes as a singularly important, even crucial, vehicle for the preservation of some of the most fragile collective memories in Britain.  

If 2016 severed us so painfully from so many greats, I want to end by saluting two veterans who refuse to give up the ghost. Neil Young has slipped down the ranks of the intelligentsia’s appraisals when it comes to singer-songwriters, I think because he has traded in abstraction for visceral, sometimes slap-dashed and clumsy, invective. But fuck it, I wish more of our younger artists had his passion and anger, because we need it more than ever. Peace Trail is not some grand return to seventies form, but it’s important, often beautiful, and contains one of his best songs in a while in the title track. I’m glad he’s still out there. More impressive and welcome perhaps, however, was the return of Shirley Collins after a studio silence of no less than 38 years. At 81, her voice is more frail and strained than in her Love, Death and the Lady heyday, but rather than being a weakness, it only adds to the spectral beauty and gravitas of Lodestar. In such turbulent times, knowing Shirley Collins is out there, producing such incredible music and shining through the night with her humanity, is a real comfort.

 So yeah, fuck 2016 and fingers crossed 2017 won’t be such a bummer. Now forgive me whilst I reach for my copies of Lodestar and Furfour and hope that when I open my eyes the world will be gone... 

Grumbling Fur — Furfour (Thrill Jockey)

Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi — Narrante (ECM)

Catherine Christer Hennix — Live at Issue Project Room (Important)

Yves Tumor — Serpent Music (PAN)

Andy Stott — Too Many Voices (Modern Love)

Shirley Collins — Lodestar (Domino)

Kuedo — Slow Knife (Planet Mu)

Pye Corner Audio — Stasis (Ghost Box)

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith — A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM)

Demdike Stare — Wonderland (Modern Love)

Aşıq Nargilə — Yurt Yeri (OtoRoku)

Kepler Quartet/Ben Johnston — String Quartets Nos 6, 7 & 8 (New World)

Laura Cannell — Simultaneous Flight Movement (Brawl)

Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)

Frank Ocean — Blonde (Def Jam)

Babyfather — BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow (Hyperdub)

eMMplekz — Rook to TN34 (Mordant Music)

Kleistwahr — Over Your Heads Forever (Fourth Dimension)

Jack deJohnette — In Movement (ECM)

David Bowie — Blackstar (Sony/Columbia)

Fatima Al Qadiri — Brute (Hyperdub)

Graham Lambkin — Community (Kye)

Gate — Saturday Night Fever (MIE Music)

Cindytalk — The Labyrinth of the Straight Line (Editions Mego)

Pauline Oliveros & Connie Crothers — First Meeting Still Sounding (Important)

Tongues of Light — Channelled Messages at the End of History (Pre—Cert Home Entertainment)

Ian Humberstone — Folklore Tapes Occultural Creatures Vol.1: Black Dog Traditions of England (Folklore Tapes)

Oren Ambarchi — Hubris (Editions Mego)

Hen Ogledd — Bronze (alt.vinyl)

Neil Young — Peace Trail (Warner Reprise)

 Archive & reissue 

LaMonte Young & Marian Zazeela — The Theatre of Eternal Music: Dream House 78’17” (Les Série Shandar)

AMM — AMMMusic (Black Truffle)

Magpahi/Paper Dollhouse — Devon Folklore Tapes Vol.IV: Rituals & Practices (Folklore Tapes)

This Heat — This Heat / Deceit (Light in the Attic)

Catherine Christer Hennix — Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku (Important)

Awalom Gebremariam — Desdes (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

Dean McPhee / Mary Arches — Devon Folklore Tapes Vol.V: Ornithology (Folklore Tapes)

Ragnar Johnson assisted by Jessica Mayer — Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea (Ideologic Organ)

Harry Bertoia — Sonambient  (Important)

Yoshi Wada — Off the Wall (Important)

 Best tracks 

Frank Ocean: “Nikes”

David Bowie: “Lazarus”

Grumbling Fur: “Acid Ali Khan”

Kuedo: “In Your Sleep”

Neil Young: “Peace Trail”

Leonard Cohen: “You Want it Darker”

Shirley Collins: “Awake Awake /The Split Ash Tree / May Carol / Southover”

eMMplekz: “Britain’s Go Talon”

Anohni: “Drone Bomb Me”

Yves Tumor: “The Feeling When You Walk Away”