I’ve been tagged by both @sowhatifiliveinkyushu and @theknickknackblog in the same music post over the last couple of days, so I thought I should do the honourable thing and join in…
Three albums that I am currently listening to:
Sink-Along by ECHT!
Slow, breakbeat, almost drone bass jazz played by a four-piece out of Belgium. Lots of gut churning bass, heavy breaks, lots of atmosphere. Right up my street!
(scared the local old boys at the vinyl night with this the other night)
Sonny & Terry by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee
Classic Chicago blues and soul from 1973. Some of their own, some of others, covers of Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke, and one two minute instrumental track (Sonny’s Thing) that you could play to a hip-hop crowd today and the heads would be all over it.
Camembert Electrique by Gong
Oh man, this is just like the pinnacle of weird, abstract psychedelic acid fuelled space prog, and it’s awesome! It builds and builds, like a trip and just keeps spiralling round. Never gets overly pretentious like some of the other prog bands of the time and always stays on the right side of the music, rather than the pomp.
As is tradition, i shall now tag in a load of other Tumblrfuckers who may or may not choose to follow suit... I mean, what the fuck do I care? I'm not your daddy. Unless you're into that whole thing of course and then yeah, message me and we can come to an agreement.
@wildthings04 (not sure which is the right one of yours to tag) @theoldsmelly @somethingforever @mutedlullaby @ddraig02 @boshaan @stramoniumdiffusion @h0rsefuneral (you change your name so often i can never find you in these things!) @crowbone @znoellepaige @runerunner
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i <3 menial tasks. for srs.
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If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)
At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.
Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.
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It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.
We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.
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people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.
what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.
you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.
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