#i confess i do not know 80s or earlier television as well as i could — or at least the kind of television that wayne would watch anyways

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friends, pals, and besties very important question for you — what tv show would wayne enjoy watching reruns of most? 🤔

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39. and 80. with jin?

from »this list:

39.   “I’ll be gentle, promise.”

80.   First kiss

a/n: this was supposed to be a drabble! fluff became plot. 🤒

🌨️ pairing: seokjin x f!reader | wordcount: 2.2k

🌨️ warnings: throat touching [no choking], mentions of sadist!y/n, mentions of alcohol, no kisses for sj, y/n is explicitly shorter than sj

The threshold of normalcy is thin at four o’clock in the morning.

If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t be standing in the middle of the pavement with your hand on Seokjin’s throat.

Jungkook was nervous. Everyone promised to livestream the first day of his overseas gaming tournament. A small party formed in the apartment Jungkook shares with his roommate, Siyeon. 

The first flakes appeared as the sun fell. Five centimeters of snow were crunching under your boots by the time you buzzed their apartment at midnight. During downtime between Jungkook’s appearances, you held your tea and stood by the window to watch sudden heavy snow falling out of a purple sky. You were blowing cool air over a second cup when Seokjin appeared by your side. He always stands a little too close. The lazy “wow” he muttered was given an echo. “Yeah,” you smiled, as you felt Seokjin lock into the hypnosis of watching parked cars become hills, “wow.” 

The fact that you and Seokjin both live on the north side of town sealed the decision to walk home together. 

Seokjin is a friend. He was a friend of a friend before Jungkook properly introduced him to you during a snowboarding trip last year. You would never call Seokjin a close friend, but you’re disappointed when he doesn’t join the group chat’s drinks or afternoons at the gaming café. 

A fuzzy red glove is a slice of vivid color between the collar of Seokjin’s black puffer coat and his chin. Your heart is beating in your throat. Frigid air cools heat on your cheeks, but your chest could burst.

For a moment, you forgot this is the second time you’ve truly been alone with him.

Seokjin looks completely tranquil. His heavy eyelids are sealed shut. The faint smile on his lips is an invitation.

When Seokjin paused his careful waddle down the street, you watched him drop into a squat. Streetlights are flashed on in the early morning darkness. Under an orange beam, gloves dug into undisturbed snow like a front loader digging into rubble. Instinctively, you dropped down to grab defensive handfuls for yourself.

Snow is melting on your tits. Seokjin succeeded in dumping a cold streak between your coat, your sweater, and your scarf. High pointy shoulders and confused eyes flashed through your vision, and the realization that giddy childishness after the first snowfall of December has filled Seokjin with stupid bravery skipped your heart before you were crawling over his back, a victorious laugh was parting the air, and your hand snapped out from under his pompom hat. 

Seokjin kept the hat on. You know there’s a chunk of snow melting on the top of his head. Thick wool presses over his ears. You don’t need to see those ears to know they’re bright red—they’re the same color as his shiny, frozen nose.

Trembling hands swiped away his remaining handfuls on your shoulders. You pat off the rest of your snow on his hips. Locked in a half-hug, you stared at each other. Your eyes were filled with curiosity. Seokjin only looked calm. When he asked the question, your head tilted with smiling fascination.

“What would you do? If I asked you to kiss me.”

“Do you want me to show you?” Alert with the energy that only hits when you’ve been awake all night, your smile crooked up tighter.

“Yeah.”

Despite his flaring nostrils and the fog your breath was building, Seokjin spoke quietly.

“In this moment? Or in my fantasies?”

“Do the fantasies hurt?” His nose snorted. Seokjin sniffled in a wet sound, and apologized with a strangely high giggle. 

Seokjin can put on charm. Practiced expressions, flirty puns, and careful body language are his ice-breaking forte. The absence of those affectations relaxed your shoulders back, and softened your intrigued smile. 

“Who’s been talking?” Laughter peeled you away from Seokjin’s body. Instinct kept your hands on his hips. Under the marshmallow-soft rings of his puffer coat, you could sense a hint of their curve. “It was Jungkook, wasn’t it?” Your sadistic bedroom tendencies have apparently breached osmosis. 

“I just know,” quiet breath rasped in, “so don’t be afraid to show me.”

“Right.” Studying Seokjin’s muted excitement up and down grounded you back into the moment. “Well. If I showed you what I think about…” You squeezed his waist tighter. “I would need to put my hand on your throat. Is that okay?” 

“Sure.”   

“I’ll be gentle.” Your smile disappeared with a full-body sigh. Hands on your shoulders fell away. Seokjin was glowing in the lamplight. His eyes were already closed. “Promise.”

Shadows darken the arcs of Seokjin’s closed eyelids. Everything that isn’t shadow is dimmed with orange, and softened. You know Seokjin has smooth features. Right now, though, he looks like a moody painting in half-light; framed by blurs of a snowed-in world. You breathe thin through your nose. You don’t want to create clouds. Thick, crimson lips are a shining target.  

Eyebrows flick down under the wispy black fringe sticking out under his hat, and glistening light appears slowly.

Seokjin’s slowly opening eyes have settled thin. Forcing your eyes off his lips, you glance up.

“Don’t stop.” Movement pulses under the damper of your glove. Pulling in, and pushing out. Seokjin swallows heavily.

Seokjin has an elegant throat. A bold larynx. Of course, you notice. It was one of the first things you noticed when you met him. He was unzipping the high collar of his coat and shooting you a careless glance over Jungkook’s awkward introduction. Eyes, lips, throat. You ignored the warm details until you had a moment to reflect, later. Seokjin is stunning to you.

“I’m showing you what I would do, right?” Seokjin’s dark eyebrows are angled down hard, but you can only raise your eyebrows with a little smile and an innocent shrug. “I would do it slowly.” 

It’s a partial truth. Mostly, you stopped because you were staring.

All of your pressure is angled up under Seokjin’s soft chin. Mild disappointment tamps your high. You need to press harder—or, you need to slide your hand lower, and lower—to really feel his heartbeat. 

Your free hand slides around the back of his neck. The plush of a thick hat borders the crook between your thumb and fingers. Feeling the support of your feet; the shape of the body in front of you, and the shapes of a dark city and muffling snow spreading out around you—you know where you are. The snow you’re standing on is packed down fresh. Ice doesn’t threaten to slip. 

Thick winter boots strain into a tilt. Seokjin is bending his knees.

Something tickles. Your whole body tickles. Your eyelashes have hazed down into darkness, and you can feel Seokjin hear the first puff of a laugh you just let out, because the shape hinting under his thick hat jerks. 

“What,” your eyes pop open as his jaw swipes past your lips like a match sparking over an igniter, “are you trying to piss me off?” Wide surprise bounces off brick walls, and echoes into alleyways. Studying the scrunched-up face Seokjin is pushing into his shoulder, you suck in airy amusement. The grimace on his face looks like guilt. “Don’t worry about it,” you sigh. “I know you aren’t playing games with me. Right?” Your fingers fall onto his shoulders, and tap out a drum.

The heels of your boots crunch back down into your footprints. Sucking a deep breath of winter air into your lungs reminds you of the facts. 

You feel comfortable around Seokjin.   

Right now, the past doesn’t matter. 

It doesn’t matter that Seokjin knows you were interested. 

This moment is fresh, and new. This moment doesn’t hang on previous expectations.

Seokjin started spending more time with everyone. He laughed too hard at your jokes. He let brushes of bodies linger. Once, he sent you a flying kiss as a thank you for going outside to check for a lost item in Jungkook’s car. The way he avoided your eyes after you caught it and sent it back to him left you with a single impression. Seokjin knows how to give—receiving turns his ears red. 

Coming on to Seokjin was pointless. First, you just wanted a fuck. Then, you tried asking him for a date. Seokjin turned you down with a simple explanation. “I don’t like complicated things.”

You and Seokjin were alone at a bar earlier this month. Nobody else arrived. A fireplace was crackling; Christmas lights strung up romantic glows. Tired, idle jokes that this was everybody’s attempt to set the two of you up on a winter date became conversation about television and aliens.

“I was engaged. A few years ago.” 

The confession was a non-sequitur.

“Oh, really?” You glanced at Seokjin’s gin and tonic. Neither of you were really drinking.

The story unraveled. Seokjin’s parents had demands. So did hers. Neither of them had romantic notions about marriage. He shook hands with a woman he met at business school, and sealed a secret deal. In one year, they were engaged. The marriage date was kicked into the future again, and again. Seokjin was already burning out of the corporate world when she accepted a job overseas. You didn’t need to know the complete story to foresee its conclusion. Hearing that he still chats with her put a smile on your face. 

Laughter is shaking Seokjin’s chest. You’re suddenly reminded of the chill of wet fabric clinging to your skin. Seokjin huffs out a crystalline sound that hangs in the air, holds his snow-soaked mittens up to his face, and breathes into them. 

You’re confused about his feelings. So is he. Light is flashing in his wet eyes, and laughter is covering up his full-body shake.

You thought Seokjin wanted to share his past with you as a simple sign of trust. As the memory fizzles away, you feel yourself smiling. Maybe he was trying to tell you he really doesn’t like complicated things.

“You should take your hat off.” You shove your hands into your pockets. The high note of disturbed waterproof fabric fades into silence. “That can’t be healthy.”

“It’s making my hair wet.” Seokjin grabs the fat fur pomom at the top of his hat. Wool sucks up around his ears and slides off, a head of stick-straight hair reveals itself, and Seokjin bends over in a lanky sweep. A chunk of unmelted snow falls with a solid thwump. A hole is carved in the snow under its weight. Sympathetic shivers chatters your teeth. You don’t know how Seokjin hasn’t been shivering. Lifting up straight, Seokjin jerks his chin to the side, and groans at himself. “Ah. I’m too old for this.” The smooth in his voice is sudden. He’s genuinely apologizing. “Sorry.”

“Nobody’s too old for a snowball fight. Start complaining when you’re ninety.”

“I’m sorry I asked you to kiss me.” 

“Oh.”

The clarification warms nerves under your skin. Flexing your fists inside your pockets, you straighten out your legs, and shiver again. The warmth escaping off your skin has cleared away moonlit, snowlit unreality. Turning gears in your stomach pop up thoughts of your afternoon shift at work. 

“Come on.”

Ahead of you, dark shops and empty apartments form an orange tunnel beneath the heavy sky. A sudden dry rumble pulls your attention up the street. A silhouette is shuffling around a car. Snow fluffs off the car’s windshield with each echo of the scraper. 

You lift your leg to take another step into snow, and stop. Lowering your boot into fluff that hugs your ankle, you glance over your shoulder. Footprints in the snow carve away from Seokjin’s body. The snow behind him is a trampled mess. 

A landscape of snowed-over cars and frosty lamposts spreads out around motionless, sloped shoulders. Seokjin’s long throat is exposed. He’s gazing up at the sky, and a huff of white pools above his face. You glance up, too. The snow has stopped falling. Everything overhead is streaking tiers of violet and grey.

“Can I ask you something else?” His head rolls down slowly. The snow on his blue gloves has flaked away and melted. When he shoves his hands into the pockets of his puffer coat, Seokjin takes a waddling step forward.

“Of course.” Buried under thick winter layers, you know your body doesn’t look as tense as you feel. Trembling your muscles in tight, chilled wet but warming up slowly, you think about your hot water bottle at home. You think about thick blankets, and good sleep. 

“What do you want?”

“What do you think I want, Seokjin?” 

“Food.” The word drops too fast and flat for Seokjin to hide his intentions.

“That sounds like what you want.” You swash your hand out towards Seokjin. Half-asleep, or horny, or both—his eyes are barely open, and he’s moving in slow-motion. 

“It is.” Seokjin’s shoulders hunch with a silent laugh. 

“Dinner? Or just food?” You’ve heard Seokjin praise steak places with open kitchens and tiny seasonal menus. If Seokjin wants you to buy him dinner, you’re already apologizing to your wallet. Sticky damp and cold rolls your lips together. “Come on,” you realize how hard your lips were tingling when you feel them numb into the cold, “let’s walk and talk.”

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My Two Cents on Female Characters in Animated Television Shows

Recently, while discussing my disappointment with the lack of development for the girls in My Hero Academia, I received a rather pointed response that accused me of not caring about female characters at all. This couldn’t be further from the truth, as often girl characters are usually some of my favorites in most shows, but where I think this person got confused is that they mistook my criticisms for contempt. You can criticize something without disliking it. Although I laughed and rolled my eyes at the accusation being the staunch feminist that I am, I figured it was a worthwhile topic to discuss: the portrayal and characterization of female characters in media. Particularly, animated television products.

Even though I wasn’t alive at the time, let’s rewind the clock back to the 1980s. During this decade, most animated television series were more focused on selling toys to go with the product than telling a good story, and this was also the time when gendered products exploded. Boys watched He-Man, G.I. Joe, and Transformers. Girls watched My Little Pony, the Care Bears, and Jem and the Holograms. The biggest shows usually had a gender division, though there were some shows that catered to children as a whole. What we usually got out of the boy shows is a cast almost exclusively male with maybe one or two female characters, such as with the 80s Voltron series were Allura was the only female character on the side of good. Likewise with girl oriented shows, most of the cast was girls with only a small handful of boys, though the Care Bears was an outlier due to having a rather fine mix of the two. During this era, if a girl was on the team, she usually didn’t do much. She was the damsel to be saved or the love interest to be smooth talked. She rarely had much more personality than “is a girl”. They were just kind of cookie cutter stereotypes who existed to be saved and supported by the real heroes. Some shows however did focus on strong warrior women such as She-Ra and Spider-woman. However, both of these were female spin-offs of boy shows and were again gendered products aimed only at female viewers.

The 1990s saw the emergence of shows with female leads that weren’t necessarily aimed exclusively at girls, but more often than not, it was more of a case of shows aimed at girls that just happened to attract a male audience. This happened with shows like The Powerpuff Girls or Daria, with Daria being a spin-off of Beavis and Butthead created to give MTV a female icon to draw viewership, as well as serving as a feminist icon and a voice of the disaffected nihilism of 90s teens. Shows aimed at a broader audience like Recess, The Magic School Bus, and Captain Planet started a trend of including more female characters, but it was still very common for the ratio to be tipped in favor of male characters. And this trope still remains at large to this day. This ratio is usually about 3:2 or 2:1 in a smaller group. Unless it’s aimed at girls or designed specifically to appeal to both genders, most products have more boy than girl characters.

Now with the 2000s, this is when my earliest childhood memories come back to me, and it’s the girls from this era of media that turned me into a feminist. I grew up on shows like Teen Titans, Avatar the Last Airbender, Kim Possible, and Totally Spies. This is when I would argue girl characters were really starting to really leap out and become actual people, though there were shades of this in the 90s as well. They were far more deep and complex than girl characters were in earlier media. Katara was still a maternal figure and a healer, but she had pride, a temper, and could be bossy. Starfire was a beautiful alien princess, but she was a warrior princess who was just as good in a fight if not better than her male teammates. Kim Possible was a super popular cheerleader, but she was also an honor roll student and a kick ass secret agent who retained her humbleness about it most of the time. While Clover was totally boy-crazy and fashion obsessed, she was balanced out by the academic Sam and the sporty Alex, and all three spies had episodes where they were the one saving the day and figuring out the problem. Fortunately, the 2010s have continued this trend of fleshed-out female characters, as shows have allowed female characters to exceed the normal parameters or expectations of their genders to treat them more like people, such as Flame Princess in Adventure Time donning very traditionally masculine clothing when she raps, both of which are not stereotypically feminine.

However, where Western Animation has progressed greatly, Shonen Anime has fallen majorly by the wayside. A common criticism of Naruto is that Sakura spent most of the time standing around doing nothing, and this sadly applies to all of the women. Kurenai is a Jonin level ninja, but she’s only ever shown in a single fight against Itachi and Kisame where she uses exactly one technique, and it’s used to show off how strong and cool Itachi is because he could counter her illusions with his own. Hinata is driven to become stronger due to being inspired by Naruto, but barely gets any screen time or skill improvement, and her only notable fight in part II is against Pain where it was a vehicle for her confessing her feelings for Naruto, and then triggering Naruto’s 6 tailed form so that Naruto could win the fight. Heck, Ino was standing ten feet away from the wanted terrorists that killed her teacher and she did nothing the entire fight. It’s not like she had mind control powers that would have been useful or anything. Sure the arc was for Shikamaru’s character growth, but even Choji did something and Choji sucks. And Tenten... Well she doesn’t matter. You could literally replace her with a lamp and nobody would be able to tell the difference. She’s just there because every squad must have a girl character.

So, now it’s time for the big feelings ouchie word: Strong Female Character. When people hear this they assume it means a character like Calhoun in Wreck-It Ralph, that tough as nails no bs cranky type of female who don’t need no man and yes, Calhoun is a Strong Female Character. And so is Katara. And Sadie Miller in Steven Universe. And Quinn Morgendorfer from Daria. Being a Strong Female Character isn’t about being tough or being a walking tank. Strong Female Characters simply have strong characterization. They’re well-constructed. Katara lost her mother when she was young and she had to take on her mother’s responsibilities, causing her to become very mature at a young age and to feel like anyone in need of help should get it because that’s her ‘job’ in a sense. Taking care of others is what she’s done since she lost her mother, it’s become her identity, and she could never reject that self-appointed duty without losing who she is as a person. Raven from Teen Titans pushes people away because she’s destined to destroy the world, and she hates herself for what she was created to do. She views herself as a living curse, and she doesn’t want to let people get close to her because it’ll hurt that much more when she has to fulfill her destiny and hurt the people that she cares about. Sadie Miller has only ever poofed one corrupted gem, but there’s a clear personality at play. She has low self-esteem and puts up with people telling her what to do because she’s a pleaser. She likes to make other people happy. Quinn is as classic girly girl as you can get. She’s shallow, vain, and bows to peer pressure. However, she voices that she doesn’t always like having to be like this, but that if she didn’t, she wouldn’t have anything in common with her friends. She’d rather be a shell of her real self surrounded by friends than her true self and alone. As Daria points out, Quinn wears superficiality like a suit of armor because she’s afraid of looking inside and finding nothing. But in later seasons, she begins to embrace the things that make her stand out by becoming more openly invested in her studies regardless of what it makes people think of her, and honestly, nobody really cares. A Strong Female Character doesn’t have to lead an army to be strong, she just has to be a fully defined person. So, now let’s bring the discussion full circle back to My Hero Academia. Earlier I mentioned the standard 3:2 ratio for larger groups. That is to say, if there’s an odd number of main characters, expect one extra boy for every boy-girl set. Too bad in My Hero Academia, it’s a 2:1 ratio of 14 boys and 6 girls. That’s 30% of the class size. They barely make up 1/4 of the class. And of those six maybe three of them have strong personalities. Tsuyu Asui, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Mina Ashido all have very distinct personalities, stand out in the class, and and have been given noteworthy character traits. Tsu tends to favor logic over emotion but doesn’t always like that this is her go-to response because she’s afraid people will think she’s heartless. Momo has high expectations for herself, and had a whole arc dedicated to her disappointment from the tournament arc. And Mina has a clearly defined personality, flaws, and tends to speak the most of the girls in the class. While Jiro’s not necessarily flat, we know less about her than the other girls. Uraraka’s character is so fixated on being the cute love interest that she doesn’t have any other personality traits. And Hakagure’s only real gimmick is that she’s invisible, but other than that is just a stereotypical girl. There’s nothing wrong with a female character not being a central figure in the narrative. What is wrong is when female characters are left to being window dressing. Jiro’s parents are both musicians and Jiro seems to like music too so why is she trying to be a hero? We know next to nothing about Hagakure. Sure, there are boy characters we don’t know very well either. Shoji, Koda, Sato, and Aoyama are still largely underdeveloped. But see, it’s problematic not only because the ratio is so heavily slanted, but because the girls that need character development don’t get much screen time. Uraraka has used the disarming training she got from her internship a few times, but that’s not a personality or a character development. And what happened when she went to the Yakuza secret hideout? She got left outside with the rest of the girls while most of the plot happened inside with the boys. Heck, Nejire who is part of the Big Three, we saw the backstories and training for both Mirio and Tamaki, but Nejire was just sort of ... present. She wasn’t given a character. Now, does that mean that I hate the girls in My Hero Academia? Of course not! Tsu is one of my favorite characters, and I like Jiro. She’s cool. But that doesn’t mean that I’m happy with the level of development and focus they’ve gotten. They’re characters too and they should be allowed to be more fleshed out in the story.

[musicdeejaysorceress]

Nostalgia Music Playlist Also on Youtube Updated Writings Added By Wednesday October 30 2019

Nostalgia Music Playlist Also on Youtube

First off, I want to thank all who have taken the time to view all of my online content including these music playlists, the following is some of the songs from the Nostalgia Music Playlist that I initially started approximately 9 months ago, one of the multiple reasons why I am sharing this music playlist is because I have had the good fortune of unexpectedly discovering that this is one of my more highly viewed music playlists and to intuitively help remind me that it is ok to share some of my music interests provided I do so in a wise and intuitively thought  process with additional thanks to those who look at my online writings. I intend to share more of the songs from this playlist within 49 to 70 hours andor sooner from now.

Wednesday October 30, 2019 by 1119pm-I listened to my creative intuition to add previous  youtube comments that I have previously written to a multiple number of the songs, I continue to appreciate all who view these writings, though I admit that I must allow the option to be open-ended if I prefer to post written comments to the remaining songs andor to just let it be currently the way it is. I say this with much happiness in my heart, it is just that I must give myself enough time to carefully ponder on this because there are a multiple number of other areas/goals that I must also focus/set to accomplish in my personal andor professional life. Regardless of what I eventually decide, it has been one of my multiple passions to share this nostalgia music playlist and to get a glimpse from other youtube commenters on how diverse music genres of songs can be universal-listened to multiple people from various backgrounds, almost in a music can be a beneficial uniter, an uplifting channel/vehicle for unity.

Nostalgia Music Playlist

Side  Travis

Youtube comment from approximately 9 months ago

Side by Travis is another song that I first heard around the early 2000s when I was first stationed in Yokosuka Japan, definitely by the summer 2003 andor earlier timeframe via I think what was a Brit Awards cd collection. I now intuitively and fully understand the meaning of this meaningful song that is Side by Travis. I truthfully wish that I could  have intuitively and logically realized the message and deeper meaning of this song when I first heard it when I was around 22 years old. However, better late than never and I prefer to be discreet when I first figured out the full meaning of Side by Travis especially since I am in the process of learning to embody the message and meaning of this song as I reluctantly admit to still being a work in progress/construction in progress when it comes to this.

 Addicted Saving Abel

Pain Three Days Grace

Come Go With Me Expose

Your Wildest Dreams  Moody Blues

I Can See Clearly Now Jimmy Cliff

Gold  Spandau Ballet

Stellify Ian Brown

Heart  & Soul T’Pau

Follow You Follow Me Genesis

Wings Little Mix

Youre Still The One Shania Twain

Clumsy Fergie

Belinda Carlisle I Get Wea

Dolphins Cry Live

Express Yourself  Madonna

Caught Up In You  38 Special

Addicted Saving Abel

Secret Rendezvous Karyn White

If You Only Knew Shinedown

I Feel The Earth Move  Martika

Circle In The Sand Belinda Carlisle

Desire U2

Orinoco Flow Enya

In Your Eyes  Kylie Minogue

Sensitized Kylie Minogue

Trying Not To Love You  Nickelback

Therapy  Armin Van Buuren James Newman

Lovesong  The Cure

C’Mon and Get My Love  D-Mob feat. Cathy Dennis

Do You Know Angel City

Touch Me Angel City

I Wanna Be Bad  Willa Ford

Va Va Voom Nicki Minaj

I’m So Into You SWV

Slide In GoldFrap

Meet Me Halfway Black Eyed Peas

Scream & Shout  will.i.am

Burnin For You Blue Oyster Cult

Dr. Feelgood Motley Crue

The Perfect Drug Nine Inch Nails

Latch  Disclosure feat. Sam Smith

Crush Dave Matthews Band

Raindrops (Encore Une Fois Pt. II) Extended Mix by Sash! Feat. Stunt youtube comment from approximately 2 months ago

I must properly credit and admit that a version of this Raindrops song from the Trance Party Vol. 6  that I enjoyed listening to multiple times (before heading to where I worked in Norfolk Virginia) around the 2008 timeframe is one of the reasons that indirectly influenced why I enjoy this youtube version of Raindrops (Encore Une Fois Pt. II) to this day. I was living quite a carefree and a little bit of a freespirited life during this time yet one of the reasons why I first enjoyed this distinctive song even then and even to this day relates to the exciting adventurous vibe energy to this song.

Is This Love Whitesnake youtube comment from approximately 2 months ago

I feel very lucky to have heard this dazzling romantic rock song Is This Love by Whitesnake by the time I was between 8 to 11 years old either by local radio andor television. I also started to enjoy Is This Love by Whitesnake so much more by the July 2011 timeframe because it was contained on a music collection titled American Anthems that I unexpectedly discovered through the Amazon UK website.

Rock You Like A Hurricane Scorpions youtube comment from 2 months ago

To think I was somewhere around 13 to 15 years old when I unintentionally heard this push the envelope yet amusing classic rock song that is Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions via local radio. Obviously, I enjoy the album version of Rock You Like a Hurricane, however I feel that this live version of Rock You Like a Hurricane also does the album version justice.

No One Like You Scorpions youtube comment from 2 months ago

I am lucky to have been exposed to multiple brilliant classic rock songs  via online and radio. This song No One Like You by the Scorpions is a refreshing/one of a kind song that I first heard around by the time I was between 13 to 16 years old via local radio, and I started to unexpectedly enjoy much more by the late 2010/early 2011 timeframe.

Miss You The Rolling Stones youtube comment from 2 months ago

I truly wish that I could easily recall the very first time in my life that I first heard I Miss You by The Rolling Stones. However, I am so glad in a pleasant way to have surprisingly heard this well made classic rock song via a local metropolitan Washington D.C. radio station less than a year ago.

Wicked Game Chris Isaak

Peaceful Easy Feeling  Eagles youtube comment from 2 months ago

There are a multiple number of songs that  I enjoy by the Eagles with I confess some of the songs such as Witchy Woman, One of These Nights, Take It Easy and Life In The Fast Lane being among some of those songs. However, something about this Peaceful Easy Feeling classic rock tune by the Eagles made an indelible mark on my soul when I first heard this song via local radio by the time I was between my mid 20s to late 20s. The calming and yet optimistic vocals and music also do it for me with this entertaining classic rock song.

Candyman Christina Aguilera youtube comment from 2 months ago

There was a catchy commercial that I spotted sometime around the 2007 to 2009 timeframe featured the Candyman song by Christina Aguilera which helped me become aware of this daring song. I admit that the music video to the Candyman song also gives this Christina Aguilera song a quirky and compelling music story quality/vibe.

I Begin To Wonder Danni Minogue

Full Service  New Kids On the Block youtube comment from 2 months ago

I confess that I got into this Full Service song by the New Kids On The Block by the summer 2011 timeframe some time after purchasing the Block music collection by New Kids on the Block by the February 2011 timeframe. Additionally, I find the metaphor of the auto/car imagery to describe what they intend to do do for their love interest/intended human target in this song very novel/distinctive.

Rendez-Vu Basement Jaxx youtube comment from 2 months ago

I have to credit first hearing this Rendez-vu song by Basement Jaxx from a Brit Awards music collection by the 2002 timeframe (I just wish that I could remember which one).  The romantic vocals and the futuristic music create a one of a kind electronic/club/dance tune/melody.

When the Lights Go Out Five youtube comment from 2 months ago

I admit that I am previously familiar with this illicit music pleasure song that is When The Lights Go Out by Five because I had heard this song via a local radio station when I was around 17/18 years old. The 90s dance, club and hip-hop music melding coupled with the bold vocals and lyrics definitely make this song an entertaining nostalgic 90s song.

Bubblin Blue feat. L.A.D.E

Voodoo Adam Lambert youtube comment from 2 months ago

I confess that this soulful and passionate song that is Voodoo by Adam Lambert first penetrated my music soul when I first heard it by the October 2011 timeframe. Something about the shining vocals and radiant music makes me think of a musical story about someone who has left such a powerful mark on the singer's soul to where their love for that person metaphorically influences the person to be totally wrapped around the finger of the person who they are bewitched by (in love with).

My Kinda Party Jason Aldean youtube comment from 2 months ago

I admit that I happen to unexpectedly find out about a music collection by Jason Aldean online around summer 2011 that contained the My Kinda Party song (definitely by the August 2011 timeframe). For whatever reason, this catchy country song played in my mind today.

 If You Only Knew Shinedown

Practice What You Preach Barry White

Possum Kingdom The Toadies

Owner of A Lonely Heart Yes

Lovesong The Cure

Live version of The Lovesong by The Cure via the New Wave & Rock 80’s Memories-It was an easy decision for me to take a chance on listening to a live version of The Cure’s classic Lovesong because I have enjoyed this creative and moving song for multiple years now, and first hearing it inside a store around the time I was 8 or 9 years old. I understand that others may interpret this song in different ways though I have always taken this song to be about a person telling another that they are always going to be in love with the person regardless of what they may do or say andor how long they may be in that person’s life, basically a positive song about enduring love, either way I find this song to be very meaningful.

Last Nine Inch Nails

Only When I Sleep The Corrs

Soothe My Soul Depeche Mode youtube comment from 2 months ago

Depeche Mode - Soothe My Soul (Official Music Video) Soothe My Soul-I’m fortunate to have had a chance to purchase the music collection that contained this song in 2013 and I reluctantly admit that certain circumstances came up to where I started to hear and enjoy this song more in the 2017 timeframe the more that I would hear this song via my iheartradio account . This group sounds just as good live, I have been to a Depeche Mode concert in 2013 and in 2017 and both times the live performances were even better than I imagined and I have to credit my husband for influencing me to like this group in the first place because he introduced me to a good mix of their music around the year when we first met (we met in August 2002).

2 Hearts Kylie Minogue youtube comment from one month ago

2 Hearts by Kylie Minogue-My angelic husband actually introduced me to a great deal of her music around the 2003 timeframe and I started to listen to Kylie Minogue much more after we got married in 2004. X was one of the first music collections that I wanted to buy via my own free will though my husband was again being very sweet by purchasing me the X music collection that this sensual and well crafted song that 2 Hearts is on. I admit that I started to enjoy this song around the autumn 2007 timeframe when I first heard it online.

Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones

Pocketful of Sunshine Natasha Bedingfield

No One Is To Blame Howard Jones

All I Wanna Do Danni Minogue

Mr. Saxobeat Alexandra Stan youtube comment from 1 month ago

Thank goodness for one of the Future Trance cds (Germany music import) introducing me to Mr. Saxobeat by Alexandra Stan around the summer 2011 timeframe.

Sex Type Thing Stone Temple Pilots youtube comment from 1 month ago

Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots-I confess that this song first seeped into my mind when I first heard this song as a 90s teenager via radio andor television (sometime between the time I was between 14 to 17 years old). For whatever reason, I admit that this song crept back into my memory when I heard it again around the autumn 2009 timeframe when I saw a Stone Temple Pilots greatest hits cd at an Orlando Florida library (this particular library was a few miles from the University of Central Florida campus). Anyhow, the more I think of it the woman in that music video definitely plays whatever role she was given very well though for some reason her dress makes me think of a Cinderella vibe.

Wicked Garden Stone Temple Pilots

Red Light Go Mea Fisher youtube comment from 1 month ago

I’m both so grateful and feeling happy/joyful that youtube has the image for the Femmes Fatales The 12 Leading Ladies of Electronica music collection because that music collection is where I first heard the electrifying and seductive Red Light Go song by Mea Fisher around the autumn 2008 timeframe and one of my earliest memories of hearing and enjoying this song was when this song was playing in a car that I had and drove in to work around this timeframe (I had purchased the music collection from some music store inside MacArthur Center mall in Norfolk Virginia by the autumn 2008 timeframe and the mp3 music collection from Amazon multiple years later). Anyhow,  the vocals and music to this Red Light Go song  by Mea Fisher are very memorable despite this song being definitely different from being a super cheerful type of electronic/club song.

I’ll Make You Feel Good K7 youtube comment from 1 month ago

Regarding K7 I'll Make You Feel Good song-I first heard this bold and innovative song during my teenage years during local radio and for whatever unexpected reason I got into this song again by around the 2008 timeframe when I was residing in Norfolk Virginia.

Right Round Flo Rida feat. Kesha

I Like It Rough by Lady Gaga-I confess that this is an illicit pleasure song that I first heard by around the 2008 timeframe through a zune music player that I use to have. Additionally, Lady Gaga’s music was played via  local radio in Norfolk Virginia (where my husband and I were residing in during that timeframe) and via online,  hearing through these channels Lady Gaga’s music indirectly influenced me to give more of her songs a listen

Cold Crossfade

Waiting For You Layla comment from 1 month ago

This youtube music video for Waiting For You by Layla via the Femmes Fatales the 12 Leading Ladies of Electronica deserve more views. i first heard this bold and club like song around the autumn 2008 timeframe when hearing this song after buying the Femmes Fatales cd collection from the MacArthur Center mall in Norfolk Virginia, I enjoyed the collection so much that it was an easy decision for me to purchase the mp3 music collection from Amazon multiple years later.

Sunlight In The Rain Kelli Ali youtube comment from 1 month ago

I remember this beautiful song Sunlight In The Rain by Kelli Ali from around the 2005 to 2007 timeframe because my angelic husband had us listening to a chillout music compilation and this gem of a song was one of the songs on this collection. I am happy/overjoyed that this gorgeous song is also available on youtube.

Siria Endless Summer

I Surrender Kate Ryan  via the song version similar to the youtube poster image of Trance Volume 2 youtube comment from 1 month ago

This music version of I Surrender by Kate Ryan is similar to a version of the song that I heard via a Best of Dance 2008 music collection by the December 2008/January 2009 timeframe.  I am thrilled/excited to find the version of this song on this youtube music channel.

Deeper Fragma

Burning Love Katie Jewels

Rush Rush Full Length version Paula Abdul youtube comment from 1 month ago

I’m so glad that this full length version is currently available on youtube the chemistry between Paula Abdul and Keanu Reeves is sizzling. I unexpectedly found this full length youtube video version of Rush Rush by Paula Abdul though I am lucky to have first heard this song in the early 90s via television andor radio by the time I was somewhere between 11 to 14 years old, the music, video, and the vocals for this song are enthralling.

Feeling Hypnotized Blackliquid Remix Colette youtube comment from 1 month ago

This song Feelin Hypnotized by Colette is far from the most cheerful song, yet there is something about this song I find very magnetic nearly 11 years after I first heard this unique song (autumn 2008 in Norfolk Virginia). I’m thrilled to find Hypnotized by Colette on this youtube channel via the Femmes Fatales The 12 Leading Ladies of Electronic because it was the Femmes Fatales collection was where I first heard this song.

Sweet Dreams La Bouche

Little Bird Annie Lennox

Beyond The Invisible Enigma

Lovergirl Teena Marie youtube comment from 1 week ago

It is definitely beyond rhyme and reason why this classic song that is Lovergirl by Teena Marie is on my mind tonight. There are a multiple number of fun to read comments on this page in regards to this song all I can add is that probably in the case of multiple music listeners on this page I first unexpectedly heard this song via local radio as a teenager and then I started to enjoy the song much more after hearing it on a local California radio station in my 20s. Fast forward by around the  December 10, 2010 and via circumstances that are better for me to be discreet about, I started to enjoy this song again more frequently. Though I must say after hearing Teena Marie's powerful vocals in this Lovergirl song that the music coupled with her vocals showcase a dynamo vocal/music powerhouse with this song.

See You Again Miley Cyrus youtube comment from 1 week ago

I find See You Again by Miley Cyrus to be very fun and pleasant to listen to even after multiple years after first hearing this catchy song. One of my earliest memories of  when I happen to have unexpectedly heard this song was around the late 2007/early 2008 timeframe when I heard this song play on a local Florida radio station in a car that I had at the time (My husband and I were stationed on the Mayport Naval base through the navy around this timeframe).

Take My Breath Away Berlin

Gimme Some Love Gina G youtube comment from 1 week ago

I'm thrilled to see this exciting dance/club song and the image cover for the song that is Gimme Some Love by Gina G here on youtube for two major reasons, one because I saw an mp3 version of thissong available for purchase online and only realized this after seeing this image and 2 this song brings back happy memories of when I first heard this song in my early 20s from a dance music collection that I had purchased multiple years ago when I was in Japan, even my amazing husband was singing part of this song the first time I started to play it on youtube tonight.

Self Control Laura Branigan youtube comment from 1 week ago

I feel very lucky to have first heard Self Control by Laura Branigan when I was around 7 andor 8 years old (1987/1988 timeframe) via local radio, this unique song penetrated  my soul the first time I heard it as a very young girl and multiple years later I still enjoy listening to this elegant song and I'm so glad the the music video is available to watch online because even the music video has a distinctive storytelling quality to it that enhances what appears to be a sleeptime dream in this music video for the song Self Control by Laura Branigan

I See Right Through To You DJ Encore

Something Kinda Ooooh Girls Aloud

Only When I Lose Myself Depeche Mode

Promiscuous Girl Nelly Furtado Timbaland

Turn Me On  David Guetta Nicki Minaj youtube comment from 7 months ago

Turn Me On David Guetta Nicki Minaj-As with many others, this daring song penetrated my soul when I first listened to the music collection that this distinctive song was on around what was either the July 2011 andor August 2011 timeframe.

Love Affair Kylie Minogue

Love Affair by Kylie Minogue-I have to credit my heavenly husband for indirectly influencing one of the multiple reasons why I still enjoy a multiple number of her songs multiple years later (because he had introduced me to more of her music in the early 2000s. For whatever reason, I noticed and listened more often to this vivid song more frequently after the April 2011 timeframe, this was around the same month that I enjoyed the good fortune of being able to attend one of her concerts.  One of the reasons why this song stays in my mind multiple years later is because of the daring energy of the song.

Fever Madonna

Fever by Madonna-I started to more frequently listen to this song by the early 2000s when I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan (through the U.S. Navy) and her music relates to multiple happy memories during my time there including the connection with this smoldering and memorable song.

Circle In The Sand Belinda Carlisle

Circle in the Sand Belinda Carlisle-I am very lucky to have actually heard this song by the time I was 7 years old on local radio around the time I had heard her Heaven on Earth song. I then started to get into this song much more after the late 2007 timeframe after purchasing one of her greatest hit music collections that contained this Circle in the Sand song. One of the reasons why I enjoy this remarkable song is because this song makes me think of a connection to a destiny andor mystical type of situation that appears to be implied in a creative way with this song.

Work Freemasons Radio Edit Kelly Rowland

Work (Freemasons Radio Edit) by Kelly Rowland, I confess that I actually became aware of this exhilarating club song after hearing this song via a UK music import of the Now 69 music collection that I purchased by the 2008 timeframe.

Chocolate Kylie Minogue

Chocolate by Kylie Minogue-I’m fortunate to have seen a music video to Chocolate by Kylie Minogue online by around the January 2004 to June 2004 timeframe and I have enjoyed this captivating song every since.

my husband is the one who played a major influence in why I started to listen to the music of Kylie Minogue more often starting around the timeframe of 2002/2003. This song Chocolate by Kylie Minogue is a masterpiece of a song that I remember first hearing by early 2004 when I was 23 years old and living in California. This song also reminds me in a blissful way of my husband who helps encourage me to be more than just the best wife I can be yet also a woman who is in the process of learning to be more in touch with my intuition, self confident, and resilient.

Dangerous cascada

Dangerous by Cascada-I luckily heard this song by the 2011/2012 timeframe via one of her music collections. The music story of how one person can have such a strong effect on the heart despite being very “dangerous” makes for enthralling music.

Wildest Dreams Taylor Swift

I am lucky to be previously familiar with Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift because I had purchased her 1989 music collection by around the December 2014 timeframe. This creative song leaves it open-ended in a clever way why the romantic partnership was meant to be temporary from the start because at the beginning of the song the lyrics suggest/implied that the music/song narrator already saw the temporary vibe of the love affair even before it began though it leaves it open why this was known ahead of time. However the lyrics no one has to know what we do definitely seems to hint at some taboo, controversial andor forbidden partnership with some rebel person type of character maybe/possibly similar to in Taylor Swift’s Ready For It song from her Reputation music collection.

High On Life DJ Encore

High On Lifeby DJ Encore-A beautiful dance song that appears to be about being around someone who has a healing andor creative inspiring effect on someone’s spirit. I feel lucky that I had the opportunity to obtain the music collection containing this during when I was in my 20s.

Falling Into You Celine Dion

Whine Up Kat De Luna feat. Elephant Man

Like A Prayer Madonna

Like a Prayer by Madonna-I am blessed to have originally heard this moving/meaningful love song by around the 1989/1990 timeframe though I admit to only intuitively being at least somewhat aware of some of the meanings of the Like A Prayer song after the 2016 timeframe for some. A dynamic song about how being in love with someone can be almost like a powerful spiritual experience.

Number 1 Goldfrapp youtube comment from 11 months ago

I like the electro and club vibe energy in this song Number 1 by Goldfrapp. I luckily first heard this song around the 2005/2006 via online.

Feel Your Love Kim Sozzi

Feel Your Love by Kim Sozzi-I am very lucky to have first heard this original dance/club love song that is Feel Your Love by around the March 2011 to July 2011 timeframe. Even multiple years after enjoying it I still have yet to make out the full meaning of this song, I am wondering if this song symbolizes either expectedly andor reuniting with someone after a long time span- 5 years andor longer-and pretty much telling them that you are ready to start anew with forgiveness. Regardless of the Feel Your Love meaning, the vocals are astonishing and the music and the music video have a vibrant energy even with the element of the night time lights in the music video.

Gods & Monsters Lana Del Rey

Gods and Monsters by Lana Del Rey-This is a music gem that I have to admit that I am previously familiar with after first hearing it via Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die Paradise Edition by around the November 2012 timeframe. Her soulful vocals and passionate energy in this song creatively transform Gods and Monsters into a song that could appear to have multiple meanings because of the abstract yet make a music listener think type of lyrics.

Youtube comment from 7 months ago

Gods and Monsters Lana Del Rey-I admit that I became familiar with this song after the November 2012 timeframe when I purchased her Born to Die Paradise music collection. Still years later, I confess that I find the push the envelope vocals and daring indie dance music fun to listen to with Gods and Monsters by Lana Del Rey.

The Dolphins Cry Live

Possum Kingdom The Toadies

Come On Barry White

How Deep Is Your Love Bee Gees youtube comment from 2 weeks ago

I have my amazing husband to thank for indirectly influencing me to love this one of a kind song that is How Deep is Your Love by Bee Gees, he recently was singing this song out of the blue when I was already in a happy mood, I find this song to be very beautiful even if I am still trying to intuitively and logically determine if this song is from the male perspective, and yes I do show my sweet and handsome husband how much he means to me multiple times because I intuitively understand that there are multiple other women who also would be happy to do the same though that is something for another post.

Do It Nelly Furtado

Ooh Ooh Baby Britney Spears

Break The Ice Britney Spears

Cyclone Baby Bash T-Pain

Like A Drug Kylie Minogue youtube comment from 8 months ago

My creative intuition/intuitive heart is influencing me to honor my husband with this love/dance song that is Like a Drug by Kylie Minogue. I truthfully purchased the music collection by Kylie Minogue in late 2007 featuring this song and I got into this Like A Drug song more by the 2008 timeframe when I was residing in Norfolk Virginia. Fortunately my husband is encouraging me of listening to her music to this day since he was significant in influencing me to enjoy more of her music when after we first met in 2002.

Fascination Alphabeat

Pumpkin Soup Kate Nash

Take Control DJ Bobo

Come On Get Higher Matt Nathanson

Live Your Life  T.I. Rihanna

Heartbeat Madonna

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‘Siesta Key’ Recap: Is Alex the Next Ted Bundy?

We’re only one episode away from the final episode of Siesta Key and things are getting even more tense than usual: Cara and Garrett are at a standstill in their relationship, Madisson won’t take a shot on Jared, and Alex and Juliette are fighting and breaking up and making up so often that none of us can keep track of where their relationship’s at.

We caught up with Reality King Spencer Pratt to get all his thoughts on Juliette’s 21st birthday and he has more than just well-wishes for The Key’s stormies couple.

On Kelsey’s benefit for her mom...and Jacob's triumphant appearance:

That was a very tiny event for Kelsey to be feeling so many emotions. Maybe she knew she wasn’t getting filmed as much and was trying to get back the “A Story”? She went all in on that speech.

Heidi loved when Jacob showed up. When he got up to stand behind Kelsey as she was reading her speech, Heidi said, "oh my god, what an amazing boyfriend.” I was all, “shit, all I’ve got to do to get that kind of response out of Heidi is to stand behind her quietly? I’m all in.” Thanks for being an inspiration, Jacob.

It really felt like the producers wanted him to film, and he told them, “no, no, if Kelsey has any more confessions to make, she can do that off-air where my family doesn’t have to hear them, thanks.”

On Alex showing up to Kelsey’s benefit:

$200 seems kind of low for a donation when you’re trying to show everyone that you’re a good guy and The King of The Key. Maybe he spent it all on Pauly Paul’s bail and the diamond he bought Juliette. Though the necklace he bought Juliette for her birthday...I thought this stuff was supposed to be Tiffany or Cartier. That didn’t look like either. I did not see that trinket and immediately think, “oh you should definitely get back together over this necklace.” Maybe he should have just donated the $99 he spent on it to help cure MS.

On the performance at Kelsey’s benefit:

It was very nice of Kelsey to include Brandon and Pauly at this high-class, invite-only event to raise more awareness for MS, which I am going to google right now. Their performance really gave the evening the gravity and importance it felt like it needed.

This whole thing was a full range of emotions. You go from Kelsey weeping because she loves her mom and just realized she doesn’t know how to read, to Pauly Paul getting bleeped out by MTV and screaming, "let’s turn this place all the way up!” I definitely needed the mood switch, though, because I’m not trying to be crying into my white wine here.

On whether Kelsey or Alex is the better speech-giver:

It was Kelsey’s realest moment on the show, so I’ve got to applaud her for that. I definitely believe all the things she said about her mom are true—which is a first for our girl—but I don’t think anyone’s out here calling her a “naturally gifted speaker” behind her back. She should have taken some notes from Alex. We hate that guy, but his dad brought in a teleprompter to the Autism Gala. You can’t compete with that.

On Jared trying to win Madisson’s affections:

It seems like they don’t teach you how to spit any game in the Navy. Jared didn’t need to take Madisson away to some private room to explain how he’s developed feelings for her. It felt like he was about to ask her dad if he could date her, when all he needed to say was, “I like you. Do you want to have lunch and see what develops?” He was really taking us back to the 1800s here.

You know what it felt like? A bad ‘80s movie and Jared’s all, “I’m telling you I’m the guy that loves you.” Was he going to break into song next? He seems like a nice guy, but I gotta keep it on the real: If he had a chance before this little pitch he threw at her, well...he certainly has zero chance now. He should just go back to trying to steal Kelsey from her boyfriend.

On Madisson’s response to Jared’s proposal (that’s the only way to describe it):

She seemed confused. It was like she hadn’t thought of homey asking her out at all since the first time on the beach. She’s given him every sign that she isn’t interested and..nothing. Aren’t Navy seals supposed to be good at picking up signals? Because ol’ boy over here seems to be much better at riding Range Rovers.

I think Madisson was all “oh my god, Jared, you were a sidepiece I hooked up with a few times in high school. Why are you trying to Swimfan me?” Did I already mention her should stick to Kelsey? Because I’m gonna say it again. That’s how you stay on this show.

On Madisson saying no:

I’m so proud of her for not saying “yes.” That was a great scene for women, young girls, dudes watching this show, everyone. It was a good reminder that just because someone gives you a 10-minute guilt trip about you being “the one that got away,” it doesn’t mean that you have to feel the same way about them.

Can I also just say how proud I am of her for being the first reality star in the history of television to say the word “apprehensive”?

On whether Brandon and Madisson are ever getting back together. :

I like that we’re still playing pretend like #Bradisson is getting back together. It’s always good to have dreams. Getting back together with an ex has surely worked out for everyone else on The Key.

On Cara and Garrett getting back together:

These two aren’t just being awkward for the show—I think I’ve realized that they truly just don’t know how to interact with each other.

“I would like to continue” is a really weird line to drop on someone you’re planning on dating. I think Garrett picked up all his ideas of romance from The Bachelor. He was probably looking around for a rose to hand her. Should have brought it from home.

How weird is it that Garrett’s going on this personal appearance tour and inviting Cara along after three months of dating? Did you see how quickly Cara realized that it might mean less screen time? It was like, “do you think I’m getting together with you so I can be on the show less?”

On Garrett not wanting to go to Italy with Cara because he needs to work:

If he really wanted to talk about money, he should have just said, “I’ll go to Italy. Just pay my personal training fee and I’ll come out there and work you out. I have high hopes for you. Matter of fact, here’s a promo code. I’ll get your entire family fit with a mix of pre-recorded and in-person workouts guaranteed to make them sweat.”

You know what this put in perspective for me? The whole tour fiasco that happened earlier this season. How are Cara and Garrett inviting each other on trips around the world and Brandon wouldn’t even let Camilla get on the guest list at a show in Orlando. I guess she was on her way out way before the tour began.

Garrett can take Camilla with him if Cara doesn’t want to do it. Girl seems desperate to get out of The Key.

On Cara showing up to Juliette’s birthday party:

They must have had a really good talk under that freeway overpass. They must have gone for chicken nuggets after and connected over both wanting to be landlords. After watching Chloe struggle to sell fake houses, Juliette only wants to be on the buyer’s end now.

I bet Cara also made good points about what it’s like to be in a relationship with Alex. I believe Juliette when she says that she always has to do what Alex wants. I think he uses his money as a way to guilt her. He’s like, “I bought you dinner and clothes.” OK cool, dude, let me see the designer labels. Psych! Having money doesn’t give you the right to treat others like trash. Take that to the bank.

If Juliette gets her own boat in season 3, she wont even remember dating Alex. Can we start a GoFundMe?

On Alex’s gift to Juliette:

I thought that box was going to open and we were going to get a zoom-in, but we didn’t even get to assess the jewelry properly. I was really hoping for a big-ass diamond but what we saw was a trinket. A bauble!

You know, all the ladies on this show are all “ugh” about Juliette even talking to Alex, but if I were her, I’d just take the jewelry and walk. You can roll all the eyes you want, Kelsey and Amanda, but I don’t see you starting a mint jewelry collection at 21. So maybe just worry about yourselves. Juliette can accept all the jewelry she wants.

My only concern is that Alex has a real Ted Bundy-esque vibe about him, so I would say definitely take the jewelry but also let Chloe know where you are at all times. Don’t you ever turn off that Bitmoji, Jules.

Spencer Pratt's big concern about Alex and Juliette:

Alex thinks he can solve every problem with money. No one’s given him any reason to suspect differently, so what reason does he have to change? What I’m more worried about is what Juliette said about him not giving her any space because he knows she’ll move on.

That’s a huge red flag. If you ask for space and your boyfriend or girlfriend or whoever won’t give it to you...oooh, that’s a red alert!

I feel like we’re forgetting that Juliette’s only 21. She’s a kid. You know what? I hope she’s in it just for the jewelry. I hope she gets an entire collection. And I hope that she and her lovely french mother just pawn the whole thing at the local jewelry store/bait-and-tackle shop and buy themselves their own boat. That would be quality.

On Chloe’s cliffhanger:

Everything was chill and then here’s Chloe coming in with “the information I have now could change everything.” I thought I was watching Siesta Key, but now it feels like we’re on CNN. Is that Rachel Maddow in the back booth of the Tiki Bar? Is that Adam Schiff doing a presser outside? I wish Chloe would have worked a little harder on The Mueller Report because Alex cheating? It’s never new.

Source: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a26963452/siesta-key-mtv-season-two-episode-11-recap-spencer-pratt-alex-juliette-necklace/

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Thousands of eco-warriors pour into London to bring city to standstill

Environmental protesters will paralyse London‘s roads today by creating human barricades at five landmarks.

Organisers of the Extinction Rebellion group claim up to 30,000 eco-protesters are expected to block major routes from 9am. Scotland Yard warned drivers to expect road closures and widespread disruption in the capital. 

The movement, which is demanding the Government takes urgent action on climate change and wildlife declines, has been backed by actress Dame Emma Thompson and former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams. 

Climate protest group Extinction Rebellion set up camp in London’s Hyde Park yesterday before today’s plans for disruption

The campaigners, who include the granddaughter of a baronet, are demanding the introduction of a legally binding policy to reduce carbon emission to net zero by 2025. 

They say they will continue to block key roads in London for weeks and ‘escalate civil disobedience’ if their demands are not met. 

Humans have declared war on nature, says ex-archbishop of Canterbury

Humans have declared war on nature and put progress before the planet, the former archbishop of Canterbury said on the eve of environmental protests aimed at bringing London to a standstill.

Dr Rowan Williams said the world is in a crisis which could be called ‘being at war with ourselves’.

He spoke at a meditation event outside St Paul’s Cathedral in the capital attended by activists preparing to take part in mass demonstrations organised by the Extinction Rebellion group.

Sitting on the ground amid protesters who held flags and banners, he said: ‘We have declared war on our nature when we declare war on the natural world.

‘We are at war with ourselves when we are at war with our neighbour, whether that neighbour is human or non-human.

‘We are here tonight to declare that we do not wish to be at war. We wish to make peace with ourselves by making peace with our neighbour earth and with our God.’

Praying at the all-faith gathering, he added: ‘We confess that we have polluted our own atmosphere, causing global warming and climate change that have increased poverty in many parts of our planet.

‘We have contributed to crises and been more concerned with getting gold than keeping our planet green. We have loved progress more than the planet. We are sorry.’

Extinction Rebellion, which describes itself as a non-violent direct action and civil disobedience group, said the protests at major central London locations including Parliament Square and Oxford Circus from Monday ‘will be bringing London to a standstill for up to two weeks’.

The first stage of their global ‘Rebellion Week’ will see human barricades at Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge, Parliament Square and Piccadilly Circus.

Their goal is to shut down vital roads and transport links, causing misery for commuters and keeping over-stretched police officers busy for hours. 

The so-called festival of action will see food stalls set up and talks given in the middle of the road throughout the day. Some protesters even plan to super-glue their hands to objects in the road and each other. 

One of those expected on the streets is Tamsin Omond, the granddaughter of Dorset baronet Sir Thomas Lees. The 35-year-old went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. 

The most prominent figure in Extinction Rebellion is Left-wing academic Roger Hallam, whose stated ambition for the group is to ‘bring down all the regimes in the world and replace them’, starting with Britain.

Last November, Extinction Rebellion blocked bridges across London to bring chaos to the capital. 

In February, they took part in a nationwide school strike and on April 1, during one of the Brexit debates, a group of their protesters stripped off in the House of Commons. 

Speaking at a meditation on the eve of the protests Dr Williams said humans had declared war on nature.

He said: ‘We are here tonight to declare that we do not wish to be at war. We wish to make peace with ourselves by making peace with our neighbour Earth and with our God.’

Thompson has previously said of the demonstrations: ‘It is time to stand up and save our home.’

The Met Police said it was aware of the protests. 

Officers said their operational response to camping ‘would be dependent on what if any other issues might be ongoing at the time’. 

On April 1, during one of the Brexit debates, a group of Extinction Rebellion protesters stripped off in the House of Commons 

Extinction Rebellion protesters sit after pouring fake blood onto the ground in London outside Downing Street on March 9

Scotland Yard said they have ‘appropriate policing plans’ in place for the demonstrations and that officers will be used from across the force ‘to support the public order operation during the coming weeks’.

Protests across Europe 

Today will see people in at least 80 cities in more than 33 countries hold similar climate demonstrations.

The first protest of the day was held at Schuman Square in Brussels this morning as protesters formed a human ‘XR’ logo – the same as that of Extinction Rebellion.

The Extinction Rebellion ‘Rebellion Week’ begins at Schuman Square in Brussels today as protesters form a human ‘XR’ logo

Police advised people travelling around London in the coming days to allow extra time for their journey in the event of road closures and general disruption.

A spokesman for the organisers said: ‘The International Rebellion begins and Extinction Rebellion will be bringing London to a standstill for up to two weeks.

‘They will be blocking five of the city’s busiest and most iconic locations in a non-violent, peaceful act of rebellion where they invite people to join them for several days of creative, artist-led resistance.’

Demonstrators arrived at London’s Hyde Park yesterday, some having journeyed to the city on foot in recent weeks from various parts of the UK for what is described as an ‘International Rebellion’. 

While organisers encouraged people to set up camp in Hyde Park overnight into this morning, they were warned they could be breaking the law by doing so is an offence under Royal Parks legislation.

A spokesman for The Royal Parks said Extinction Rebellion had not asked for permission to begin the protest in the park and that camping is not allowed.

DOMINIC LAWSON: Deluded middle-class climate warriors can’t see the real danger of their bright idea 

 Claire Perry said her encounter with this (until now) obscure group had been ‘good and productive’

Getting to see a government minister isn’t easy. I’d challenge any reader to see how long it takes to persuade the civil servants manning the bureaucratic barricades to let you bend a minister’s ear about whatever concerns you.

Yet somehow they found a space in the diary for a group called Extinction Rebellion (XR) to lobby the Minister of State for Energy, Claire Perry.

Ms Perry told the Mail on Sunday that her encounter with this (until now) obscure group had been ‘good and productive’.

Really? Extinction Rebellion is this week launching mass protests designed to shut down or obstruct transport links, causing (more) misery to commuters and business. If that’s the result of ‘productive’ talks, I wonder what would happen if they had gone badly.

But making Britain hell for business (and anyone who drives a car) is what Extinction Rebellion stands for. As the Energy Minister must know, its mission is to ‘save the planet’ by eliminating Britain’s CO2 emissions entirely by 2025.

Brutish

Or in other words, to reduce us to a state of mere subsistence, last seen in the pre-industrial age when life was (for the great majority) nasty, brutish and short.

As if to emphasise the primitiveness to which they wish us to return, this is the group which on April Fool’s Day performed a naked protest in the public gallery of the House of Commons.

Actually, this is the only way people with such views could take part (so to speak) in parliamentary debate. Because any party which tried to get MPs elected on a policy of mass immiseration would not win a single seat. There might be some thousands of middle-class students and drop-outs sufficiently aesthetically offended by mass consumerism to vote for such a manifesto, but that would be it.

This is the group which on April Fool’s Day performed a naked protest in the public gallery of the House of Commons

Unsurprisingly, the leaders of this movement tend to come from well-to-do homes, which have never experienced scarcity or privation. 

The figures behind the demonstrations planned for this week include Tamsin Omond, granddaughter of the Dorset baronet Sir Thomas Lees

The figures behind the demonstrations planned for this week include Tamsin Omond, granddaughter of the Dorset baronet Sir Thomas Lees; Stuart Basden (who said his week in prison after an earlier action was ‘a bit like boarding school’); and George Barda, son of the distinguished stage and music photographer Clive Barda OBE FRSA and a 43-year-old postgraduate student at King’s College London.

I am distantly related to one of the inspirations for this movement, the environmentalist author and journalist George Monbiot (we are both scions of the family which created the J Lyons catering and food manufacturing empire). Monbiot is anything but a hypocrite. He leads the life he preaches to others: he doesn’t own a car, never flies and, so far as I know, survives on a purely plant-based diet.

Last week, Monbiot appeared on Frankie Boyle’s television show, New World Order, and was cheered by the youthful audience when he demanded action to end economic growth, adding that this meant ‘we’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it’.

Monbiot has been consistent in this: in 2007 he wrote an article for the Guardian welcoming the prospect of a recession, even though, as he acknowledged, ‘it would cause some people to lose their jobs and homes’. (He got his wish: it turned out not to be popular).

But if it’s the planet you want to save, and you believe its very existence is threatened by excessive emissions of CO2, then what happens in this country is almost beside the point. The UK contributes little more than one per cent of global CO2 emissions. Even if the inhabitants of these islands were reduced by an environmentalist version of the Cambodian dictator Pol Pot to a state of pre-industrial and self-sufficient subsistence farming — no wicked imports of food via boat or plane — it would have a minuscule effect on the planet’s future.

In fact, the UK — chiefly through the steady closure of the domestic coal industry — has been in the vanguard of reducing CO2 emissions: in 2018, our emissions were at their lowest levels in 120 years.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion block off a road at Parliament Square, London, during a protest in October last year

The group yesterday set up camp in London’s Hyde park ahead of plans to cause widespread disruption across London later

It’s not British politicians that groups such as Extinction Rebellion should be haranguing and demonstrating against, but those in the People’s Republic of China. That is the nation responsible for 60 per cent of the growth in global CO2 emissions over the past decade.

And China is currently building almost 260 gigawatts of new coal-fired power generating capacity — in itself almost the size of the entire U.S. coal-fired capacity.

The trouble is the Chinese state would treat rather robustly any Extinction Rebellion activists who attempted to demonstrate on its busiest streets, or to mount a naked protest in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. I don’t recommend they try that.

Plunder

Nor should we be so critical of the Chinese. They, as we in the West did before them, are using cheap energy wrenched from the Earth’s resources to escape from lives of almost unimaginable poverty. And it was economic growth which ultimately created the circumstances in which peace rather than conflict became the normal state of human affairs: nations could prosper and enrich themselves through trade rather than the plunder of neighbours in a zero-sum world.

If the likes of Extinction Rebellion were to get their way, it is something like that bleak past which would be revisited upon us. And the political forces emerging from that would be truly terrifying.

If she is still in the habit of seeking their opinions, Claire Perry might point that out to the delusional middle-class climate warriors.

Who’s ready to get arrested? Undercover with the eco-activist group Extinction Rebellion who plan to bring London to a halt on Monday – and are as ruthlessly professional as they are deluded

By HOLLY BANCROFT FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 

Cigarette break: XR training volunteer Clare Farrell

I’m sitting in a cavernous community hall in East London with a group of eco-activists huddled in thick jackets against the cold.

We’re being drilled for our arrest – like soldiers being trained for capture and interrogation by the enemy.

Our tutor is a sixtysomething woman with fuzzy white hair who knows all about civil disobedience and its legal consequences.

She explains passionately that we must not speak to the police, other than to give our name and date of birth.

We must not get drunk before the ‘action’ in just a few days’ time.

And we should consider wearing adult nappies – in case we’re locked up for hours in a police van with no access to a lavatory. Or if we decide to chain ourselves to railings, barriers or whatever else to cause maximum disruption.

Welcome to Extinction Rebellion (XR), the revolutionary protest group hell-bent on eliminating fossil fuels from Britain.

To achieve this, they are planning an onslaught of civil disobedience on a scale rarely seen in this country. And I’m here undercover as a new recruit, or ‘rebel’ as they call it.

My induction took place late last month in an anonymous office block near Euston station. I’m told XR was given the space for free by a well-placed sympathiser.

A lift takes me to the fourth floor – an open-plan space with a smattering of desks and some 40 new recruits, an even mix of male and female, all casually dressed.

A handmade poster by the lifts is daubed ‘Eco not Ego’. A large sign warns us to avoid ‘suppression juice’ – that’s alcohol – so we can ‘rebel with a clear body and mind’. Brightly coloured banners hang from the ceiling – ‘No Brexit in a dead planet’, says one – while a giant papier-mâché skeleton of some big beast lies, under construction, in the corner.

This introductory meeting is led by a bearded XR activist called Greg, who lives in a squat in West London with other members of the group. His first move is to lead us in an awkward ‘ice breaker’. Sitting in rows on school chairs, we’re instructed to stick both arms in the air and waggle from side to side, chanting ‘woo-hoo’.

Then comes a minute’s silence for ‘the dying planet’. Struggling not to laugh, I bowed my head with the others, eyes down.

‘Devote some of your brain to imagining the kind of world you want to create,’ says Greg. ‘To get through this struggle together, we need to hold tight to our dream.’

We’re asked to think of one word to describe the world we want – and shouts of ‘harmony’, ‘sharing’ and ‘green’ come from around the room. ‘Courageous’, mutters a boy in a long beige trench coat sitting next to me. 

Questions follow. The volunteers are keen, but concerned. 

A charity worker with short blonde hair says she is worried about XR’s policy of deliberately getting arrested.

Not that she’s against breaking the law – just that it might deter volunteers who cannot take the risk of getting into trouble.

Eating her dinner from a Tupperware box, another young woman raises concerns about XR’s links to Labour’s hard-Left Momentum faction. George agrees XR and Momentum have a good relationship.

Preparing for action: A photo of an XR meeting taken by our undercover reporter. There is no suggestion those pictured are all intending to break the law

Then we are told to get in a long line, arranged in order of willingness to get arrested. It is time to hone our tactics and strategy for the forthcoming ‘rebellion week’ – which starts tomorrow.

‘Move around the room according to what you feel,’ says Naomi, one of the lead activists.

‘The question is this: how arrestable are you in XR?’

A handful immediately place themselves at one end of the room, the extreme that signifies: ‘Yes, I really wish to be arrested right now.’ A few walk to the opposite side, meaning: ‘Absolutely not.’

I’m with the majority shuffling around in the middle amid embarrassed laughter. This position says: ‘Maybe, let’s think about it.’

They ask us how far we’ll go. Will we commit a litany of protest crimes – smashing windows, defacing buildings? Will we glue ourselves to doors or block roads using ‘swarming’ – sitting down for a few minutes at a time to stop traffic?

‘I’m comfortable with spray paint that permanently damages but not breaking windows,’ states a woman in her 30s from a refugee charity.

‘I’m somewhere between the permanent spray paint and the chalk spray paint,’ says a man studying for a PhD in environmental activism. ‘They can’t charge you with criminal damage if you use chalk paint.’

‘Training session’: XR potential recruits Greg, left, and George

After an hour or so, we’re all split up into what they call ‘affinity’ groups based on how radical they judge us to be. They don’t seem to think I’m very revolutionary.

Roles are assigned for the forthcoming ‘action’. Our group has a ‘wellbeing co-ordinator’, a ‘legal observer’ and a ‘media organiser’.

Middle-class zealots who’ll make Monday a misery for millions 

The most prominent – and radical – of the XR leaders is failed organic farmer and PhD student Roger Hallam

Failed farmer wants a world revolution 

The most prominent – and radical – of the XR leaders is failed organic farmer and PhD student Roger Hallam.

After years in a succession of Left-wing groups, the 52-year-old says the ‘name of the game’ for XR is to ‘bring down all the regimes in the world and replace them’. Hallam (above) says paralysing traffic will eventually cause food shortages and trigger uprisings.

In a recent interview, he said XR protesters should be ready to cause disruption through personal ‘sacrifice’. If necessary, they ‘should be willing to die’.

XR co-founder Stuart Basden, 36, a middle-class writer from Bristol

Co-founder says jail’s like boarding school 

XR co-founder Stuart Basden, 36, a middle-class writer from Bristol (above), has goals that go way beyond a desire to curb global warming.

Indeed, he has claimed: ‘XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life.’

Basden has urged XR followers to embrace going to prison – where he spent a week after defacing London’s City Hall with spray paint last year – saying it is ‘a bit like boarding school’

Tasmin Osmond, 35, is a veteran of ‘direct actions’

Veteran campaigner from baronet family 

Tasmin Osmond, 35, is a veteran of ‘direct actions’ which had little to do with climate change, such as Occupy London, the poverty protest which set up a camp outside St Paul’s cathedral in 2011.

The granddaughter of Dorset baronet Sir Thomas Lees, Omond (above) went to Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read English.

She was thrown out of anti-aviation group Plane Stupid after saying the green movement ‘brand’ was ‘unwashed, unshaven and up a tree’, and this ‘doesn’t represent me’.

George Barda, 43, believes the ‘Criminal UK Government’ is to blame for climate change

Student who’s on Putin’s TV channel 

George Barda, 43, believes the ‘Criminal UK Government’ is to blame for climate change.

A post-graduate student at prestigious King’s College in London, the son of classical music and stage photographer Clive Barda still finds time to be a dedicated revolutionary and camped outside St Paul’s cathedral in the Occupy London campaign.

Today, Barda (above) is a director of XR parent company Compassionate Revolution and regularly appears on Russia Today, Russia’s controversial British TV channel.

How far would we go for the movement? A Scottish actress in her 20s tells us she’s planning to recruit her mother. ‘I think I’d be OK with being arrested,’ she adds. ‘It’s just that I’m so in and out of the country, I work between here and Paris. I don’t know if I would be able to make my court date, so I don’t know if it would work out.’

Another young woman, a university student, says she’ll bring her harp along to keep us entertained during ‘rebellion week’. Before the meeting breaks up, the organisers call for mature women willing to be trained as ‘de-escalators’.

These are the people asked to calm down frustrated members of the public, particularly drivers, trapped in the traffic jams we’re going to cause.

Then the evening comes to a conclusion with repeated chants of ‘Extinction… Rebellion’ from the hardened activists, who then treat us to an impromptu and utterly excruciating dance.

A beat box starts blaring, one long-haired man sways expansively, arms waving out of time, the others jig about. I leave, armed with XR stickers and posters to plaster on the streets.

The group gives me constant updates through the WhatsApp messaging system, and a few days later I’m back in the office block for another training session. This time, it’s altogether more alarming.

An activist in her 20s called Jess lays out XR’s terrifying vision of the future: ‘We want to build a structure, a community and test prototypes for the coming structural collapse of the regimes of Western democracies. And we see this as inevitable – this has to happen.’

Now, we’re drawn further into the plans for illegal protest, and made to take part in role-play scenarios of activists clashing with the police.

The golden rule is to stay silent when confronted by police – unless we quote from a self-righteous prepared statement outlining our supposed right to break the law as a ‘conscientious protector’ of Planet Earth.

And we must never, ever identify any of the XR organisers in case they are charged with inciting illegal activities.

Activists who plan to ‘lock on’ by super-gluing themselves to public property are warned to expect a long wait, as few police officers are trained to dissolve the glue.

The hope is to cause the maximum amount of chaos. They might even have activists locked on at five separate protest points in London. If we are seized by the police, we must make our bodies go floppy, to tie up more officers as they attempt to carry us away.

I endure a further marathon training session at a climbing centre in North London.

We’re being addressed by the white-haired lady, who I now know is press officer Jayne Forbes. Stating her own readiness for martyrdom and jail, she tells us that: ‘I’m an older person with no responsibilities.

‘I’m prepared to go to prison and I think we are privileged in this country to have prisons that are relatively acceptable.

‘If I was living in Brazil or something, I could get killed as an activist. Our prisons are not bad compared to many in the world.’

She tells us never to agree to a caution because that would be ‘an admission of guilt’.

We must never accept the help of a duty solicitor because they would be ‘pally with the police’. I’m learning a great deal.

We’re advised only to bring an old-fashioned ‘burner’ mobile phone to the protest in case the police want to seize the device as evidence.

I’m told a paperback will help me while away the long hours in a police cell – and that I can ask for up to three blankets from the custody officers.

I now have a list of ‘friendly’ solicitors on a small sheet of paper reminding me of my legal rights. Can we get vegan food in prison? XR thinks the answer is ‘yes’.

By the time I say my goodbyes, I’m truly worried. If this week goes according to plan for Extinction Rebellion, I know that many of its members will be only too delighted to learn first-hand about the inside of our police cells and our prisons – believing they have come one step closer to making their dangerous plan a reality.

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