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talkingismylifewrites · 6 years ago

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Broo ok could you give me ANYTHING HONESTLY ANYTHING with a king scenario?? Like theres johanna and regina (or whatever names you want idc) and ronald (gdhdns UGLY NAME SORRY) and dominic? Like sexy stuff, fluffy stuff, sexy fluffy stuff I DONT CARE (also its understandable if you dont write genderbends i just love ur hcs and style of writing SO MUCH)

i love genderbends, don’t worry! one day i will write my joger epic wherein roger is regina, the kickass drummer who blows john richard deacon’s mind because this fandom is lacking in genderbends particularly with girl!roger

Anyways, hope you enjoy!!

i feel like??? it just goes without saying that in the king!au they’re a little more...cautious about having babies

Regina and Johanna aren’t just like, normal women, they are Musicians and their job is 24/7 and demanding

Johanna getting pregnant initially was a Big Deal and not just because of Ron’s uber catholic family but because the band had to wrap up a tour as fast as possible, start working on a new album, and schedule in some maternity leave because yknow BABY

(Johanna was SO SCARED to tell the girls?? like she was worried they’d kick her out and make her leave because it was so ill-timed)

(not that you can TIME an accidental pregnancy. and really, if we’re gonna blame anyone blame Melina because she’s the one who literally poured tequila down her’s and Ron’s throats)

(so when Johanna found out she told, in order, her doctor, Ron, her mother, Ron’s mother, the cab driver who picked her up from the station, the woman who gave her the chocolate chip scone at her favorite bakery, and then the girls)

(Regina was the first to recover from the shock. she practically flew into her arms and started babbling about how wonderful it all was, how exciting, a baby!! what would they name it?? definitely Regina, such a regal name, and of course she’ll be godmother--

While Melina tried to hide that she was crying before sending Miami off to go fetch a bottle of sparkling apple cider as they deserved a toast!

Brianna was the only one who was hesitant in celebrating, after all, they’d have a lot to manage before it came, but yes, congrats, Johanna! such a blessing)

Yes, so babies

Very strict about the babies because while little Rebecca was the reason they all got together, another baby could easily be why they all fell apart

Regina never wants to give up touring and making music, which a baby could impede

Johanna of course wants more, but she also doesn’t want to stop while they’re still going

(it’s also so not her turn, okay she only just managed to fit back into her prebaby jeans)

Ron and Dominic?

They definitely want more kids

For sure

Like Dominic just wants more little girls with Regina’s eyes and Ron’s reddish hair or Johanna’s smile and his own nose

But they’d never enforce that on their girls

So they all decide: no babies until they’re ready

(they last exactly one year)

On Dominic’s birthday, they all proceed to get absolutely blitzed on too much red wine and too much good food while on tour in the south of Spain

Regina is the one who suggests skinny dipping in the Mediterranean but its Ron who initiates the sex

what originally was just Regina and Johanna splashing each other turns into Ron carrying Johanna caveman style back into their rental house and laying her out on the floor and licking the salt from her skin while Regina throws her legs over her shoulders and goes to town

Dominic follows shortly behind, shouting that it’s his birthday and he will not be ignored like this and someone better touch his dick before he leaves them all on grounds of emotional cruelty

Needless to say, everyone :) has :) fun :)

A month later, Regina is aware that Something Is Not Right

Regina is very in tune with her body

She has to be, as it is the most important part of her job for everything to be in working order

Drumming is more than just wrists and arms, if she’s sick or her legs are hurting she won’t be able to play like she usually does

So when she begins to feel...different?

She freaks out, goes to the doctor, and discovers that their passion filled night by the mediterranean blitzed their Planned Babies Only Decision

Regina freaks and drives straight to Miami’s office because, well

there’s a huge giant possibility that this baby’s father is a married man (Ron)

Miami, who already dealt with the logistics of their relationship and potential baby the moment he found out they were together gives her a big hug

(Regina is totally his favorite he would rather die than admit it but it’s true)

And tells her that he’s already figured it all out and that she’ll be taken care of

Also, they were due for time in the studio anyways, so they can work on a new album until regina has the baby and then they’ll have the break before the tour

With the band all handled, Regina decides that all she has to do is tell the others

She goes back to the doctor, gets her first scan, and then she comes home, puts the picture of the Bean in a frame, and hangs it on the wall

“There’s no way they won’t notice it,” Regina says, resting her hands on her hips and admiring her little miracle

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

It takes them three weeks

At first it was cute

Then it was annoying

By the third week she’s ready to take the baby herself and find another three people who are more observant

Desperate times call for desperate measures

She asks Dom if the photos in the living room are crooked and he’s like, nope, they’re looking good, Reg!

She asks Johanna to help her dust, and sends her to take care of the pictures in the living room. She watches as Jo dusts for 15min, chattering away about the new album but not noticing a thing

She straight up asks Ron if he noticed the new frame in the living room and Ron was like, oh, no, but i’m sure it looks great!

She’s completely given up when Melina, Marc, Brianna, and Chris come to dinner

Dom and Brianna have commandeered the kitchen, working side by side to make a roast with lots of vegetarian options

(Dom keeps trying to hip check her away when she starts Touching The Meat because what does she know about a roast??? They are Delicate Cuts of Meat and You Cannot Disturb Them! No Brianna, it’s not too dry!!)

Her and Jo are curled up next to each other the couch chatting with Marc and Ron about the upcoming album

While Melina and Chris stand around shooting the shit and drinking beers by their record player

It’s Chris who spots it first, just out of the corner of his eye

Regina was quite proud the way she set it up. It’s just the picture in the frame, but underneath she’s written

Condom Failed: Deacon-Taylor-Tetlaff-Beyrand Baby, Due Spring 1977

She had a bit of a giggle when she was writing it, but now, knowing that she’s involved with Three Idiots, she thinks it was more than just condom failure that led her here

So Chris sees it, and he immediately drops his beer bottle, reaching out to grab Melina’s arm tightly

“The fuck, Mullen,” Regina snaps, staring at the mess on her floor.

“Are you alright?” Johanna asks, standing up to check on him

Melina stares at him, then his arm, before looking at where he’s staring

She sees the picture, and lets out a scream of excitement, her hands covering her mouth

“Holy fuck!”

Brianna comes running out of the kitchen at the sound, Dom on her heels (after he checked to make sure the roast was okay)

Meanwhile, Chris is really trying not to blubber because he really just loves babies and well, CLEARLY this is why they invited them over!

(Dom just wanted an excuse to make a roast) (he’s very proud of his recipe) (So So So Proud)

“Oh my god, you guys, congratulations!” Chris cries, moving to pull Johanna into a hug

Because let’s face it, she was the last one pregnant, so it’s a safe bet!

He’s Wrong though

“Thank you...?” Johanna says, returning the hug and making a face at Brianna over his shoulder.

Brianna shrugs

“I can’t believe it! This is so exciting, you must be so excited!” Melina shrieks, barely able to get the words out

Chris is still hugging Jo tight

He pulls back, staring at her in horror, then at the wine glass in her hand

The wine glass

That he filled

Twice

“Johanna!” he yelps, unaware that Regina is burrying her face in her hands while Johanna is Confused

“You can’t drink when you’re pregnant!”

There is a long pause

Very long

Johanna stares him deadass in the eyes and takes a large sip

“I’m not,” she says, as dry as her Merlot

“Then who’s sonogram is on the wall?” Melina demands

“What sonogram?” Ron snorts turning to look at the wall.

“God you’re so lucky you’re cute,” Regina drawls, still perched on the edge of the couch, sipping at her tonic-lime-mint-hold-the-vodka

Ron frowns

Johanna gasps

Dom freezes

“Regina,” Dom says, his voice fragile. “Regina, are you--?”

“Hi Papa.” she smirks before looking at the other three, “Daddy, Mummy. Took you long enough to notice.”

Johanna, who has never once shrieked in her life, shrieks before pressing their mouths together, her thumbs brushing the apples of Regina’s cheeks, whispering, “I love you so much.”

Ron jumps to his feet with a whoop, grabbing Regina so as to spin her around and around in circles before letting her go to yank Johanna into a kiss

“We’re having a baby!” he cheers

Dom rushes towards her, falling to his knees before Regina and buries his face into her stomach

There may be tears

“Hi, baby,” he whispers, “It’s your Papa.”

Regina runs her fingers through his hair, smiling wetly at the other three

“I hope the baby gets my brains because otherwise they’re fucked,” she laughs. “That photo’s been up for three fucking weeks!”

The three of them laugh and cry and kiss

Regina is passed around the rest of them, where they, too, press kisses to her cheeks and hands to the slight curve of her stomach

It’s not until the faint scent of smoke wafts to them do they remember why they were all together to begin with

“My roast!” Dom wails

(seven and a half months later, Regina cuddles her newborn daughter while the three stand around, all three ready to greet the newest member of their family)

("Im just saying she looks like a Tiger Lily,” Regina coos)

(”Over my dead body,” Johanna says wetly. Picking her name has been the second biggest fight in their entire relationship. “She’s too perfect for that.”)

(They name her Catherine)

(It isn’t until they bring her home to they realize their mistake)

(”This is my daughter, Cat,” Regina smirks.)

("Goddamnit,” Johanna hisses.)

#send me more hcs!!!#john/veronica/roger/dominique #king!au #roger taylor #john deacon #caro writes #answered asks

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thekintsukuroikid · 7 years ago

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November 12th 2017 4:11am

Tofino is never worrying about running out of battery life, or the gas tank. Or atm service charges.

It’s is an odd place. Living on the mainland you get hit with the same cold and rain and you learn pretty early on how to shelter yourself in the rat race, to keep busy until the clouds roll through. Tofino is this weird anomalous places where people travel here for the express reason of running headlong into the rainy cold. Duh, the waves are better for surfing and storm watching. It’s weird being this close to the ocean. You’re surrounded by it here, you can hear it from the dead middle of town. It’s dark, cold and can swallow you up, and yet here we are grabbing neon coloured boards and wearing goofy rubber suits and paddling away from shore. Standing up, riding it. There’s a metaphor there somewhere I think. A really lame one. Suffice to say Tofino is the setting where I’ve always been most comfortable with entertaining feelings of optimism, they linger in my mind a little bit longer here, there aren’t a lot of things here that can take them away. And yet standing here alone on this beach I still wonder what it would be like to walk into the water and let the water I love so much fill up my lungs. To finally feel the tension unclench and release.

A girl bought me a drink and told me how happy she was that everything about this place wasn’t like home.

I agreed.

this trip was really about running away.

The band getting to create beautiful music for people to enjoy on a Saturday night, Thats pretty amazing right?

I remember how hard learning 3 chords was and thinking how weird it must be to be able to do so much more but the peak of your musical ambition is playing for my drunk ass.

—

I met a girl at the merch table. She was kind and she was pretty and in our conversation about the logistics of fitting a surfboard on a motorcycle I noticed her biting her lip…and looking at mine…and exhibiting every universal sign I could think of to express a “shut the fuck up and let’s make out already” sentiment–

“All I could do was wonder how much she’d have to know about me, to hate me as much as I do.”

This isn’t me. I’m so tired of this

I’ve been diagnosed with clinical major depression.

atleast I think thats what its called, I kinda zoned out when I hear it.

I’ve known that somethings been wrong forever but I’ve never had it named by someone else before. I’ve never been in a position where I could go out and really do that. I’ve been getting help for months but this weekend was the first time I’ve been able to process it all. 2 doctor’s a therapist and a councillor. 4 different opinions. The same mdi-10 depression index score. How it works is, 20 is dysthemia or mild depression and 25+ is no bueno moderate depression. 30+ is major depression. I figured I’d be around 18-19 with my shiny psych degree and my practicing of mindfullness and understanding of CBT and readings of Dr. Marsha Linehan and Brené Brown.–-

I got a fucking 38.

Of all the fucking tests to ace I sure know how to pick em lol.

Talk therapy’s helped narrowed it down, where In reality I’ve likely been dealing with this for over a decade. I could have and likely should have gotten help when I was in early highschool/late middle school. The fact that I’ve never been on medication pretty deeply concerns my therapist. I still don’t know if I want the pills, I stare at the prescription sometimes and wonder what the sweet fuck I’m going to do. It’s hard to plan things in a pros and con’s type of scenario with brain altering chemicals, like its not like theres a frame of reference or anything. I’ve always been getting by with habits and discipline. Reading ahead, doing homework early in case I sleep through my classes again. Never letting anyone get close enough to be in a position to judge you. Never be vulnerable. You’re not cool enough to have baggage.

It’s not like I’m like this all of the time. I have good days, mostly when I’m around other people, even strangers. It’s when I’m by myself for too long that it starts to creep into my mind, a little voice getting progressively louder and more persuasive. I Have fun by remembering what it’s supposed to feel like and selling it to everyone who can see me. This isn’t the stereotypical 3am negative thoughts, I mean those happen too but its more like 3pm, in the middle of my group of friends laughing, just getting hit with this whole body feeling of dread and trying to crack a joke anyway. I then follow this with sullen, silent car rides home or 45 minutes sitting on the shower floor wondering if I’ll always feel this numb?

That’s the worst part…the numbness of it all. Losing hours in the day to this thing that I can’t even really describe. I never get mad or sad or happy just attenuated, dulled versions of these emotions. I’m scared of heights, like really fucking scared of heights but I learned to rock climb because fear hits me in such a meaningless way now. This is such a weirdly strong biological component. I feel like I can never move forward to create myself because I’m always looking back, trying to get back to how I used to feel. That’s the one thing I know is missing, that sense of self that guides my decision making. I’ve never been able to go with my gut, the kind of spontaneity and passion and creativity that comes with that, Instead Its always minimize the damage, lower the risk. I feel inadequate in every measurable and measurable way, to the point of it being physically crippling.

I’ve been really fucking good at hiding this. Its the thing I’m honestly the most proud of, which is a bit counterintuitive. It’s allowed me to flip something that feels so intrinsically selfish and allowed me to keep focus on the people that are important to me. It’s allowed me to learn some really important lessons about friendships and relationships, coping and empathy, all without the vulnerability of facing those things head on. Depression to me, at least the way that i’m doing it (which I know is the wrong way to think about it) is this selfishness I don’t want to indulge.

There is massive guilt with this. I have so much. I have taken so much time, love, energy, money from the people in my life and I feel like I am and I have so little to show for it. That I am a highlight in every worst way, of the differences between what is good and what is just nice. but the thing is I’m starting to realize that this thing, this depression thing it couldn’t give less of a shit about how you rationalize it, its taken better people than me, I’ve seen it first hand.

For me this thing hits two-fold. Its the physicality of these symptoms I can no longer ignore or fight through. Messed up eating schedules, sleeping too much or too little, missing classes, being late to events or appointments and just constantly feeling zoned out, in a daze.

On the mental side of it, its been management. I’ve been in a dark place for a long time and my diminishing ability for me to manage these mental health symptoms means that I feel increasingly less equipped to take on this complete feeling of stagnation. This shit takes work. It’s like im trying to carry a weight with broken arms and no cast. It’s a feeling that even if I had an opportunity, job or otherwise, I lack the tools and the self belief to actually be and do what I want. It is such a weird sensation to feel the slide from wondering how to make it by 30…to wondering about making it to 30.

I Try to work hard to be grateful and find the joy in things. I spend my days trying to bridge the gap between the humility of recognizing this reality, with the ego of thinking I deserve better. I mean maybe this is as good as it gets? Maybe some people just spiral. I hope that isn’t me, I don’t want to see how far this rabbit hole goes, I don’t want to become what its trying to make me become, I think thats why I work so hard to keep being extraverted. I try to be around my friends, especially if I know that they have it a lot worse or are facing a difficulty. Being empathetic to what they’re dealing with makes you feel like a bit of a daft jerk for dwelling your own bullshit. That used to keep things quiet long enough. Then again you don’t win a fight by closing your eyes.

—

I went to the bar in Tofino where I bought my first legal drink and I thought about all the drinks I’ve had since then. I got hit with this really intense feeling of dread. Not that I had wasted all that time in those 5 years, Worse still, That I’ve never truly had the ability to truly appreciate all the amazing things that have happened since then.

Even if I couldn’t feel it I wanted to do the logical work towards getting out of this. I learned really early on to focus not on building a resume but on building a eulogy. To live a life well lived. To do things not for the spoils but for the man I’d become in the pursuit.

In the 5 year since I’ve been back to Tofino, I’ve hated that man. I still hate him. I am so much of what I told myself I’d never be: alone, weak, and of little consequence. I’ve tried everything to fix that man and I still can’t explain where that process went wrong. I’ve tried to surround myself with people who I love. But never letting them get close enough love me because of a combination of never feeling like I deserved it and never wanting to be burned or betrayed for being vulnerable.

I don’t know if I can really get better I don’t really know what better is. But trying has to be better than this. Thats the funniest bit about this, I don’t even think I can really imagine what better would be like, what the absence of all this would feel like.

I just know that there is more than this…that maybe I can be more than this.

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin,

I want to make all of this mean something. Maybe it doesn’t mean anything. I just know that I could set myself on fire to keep others warm. If I couldn’t feel wanted, or that I deserved to be wanted I could at least make people comfortable. I never knew there was a difference between happiness and the distraction from sadness. I would just connect to benevolence. I’d try volunteering, donating time and money partly because I enjoy those things, but deep down in a small way it was also an attempt to try reconciling the diminishing potential I felt. If I kept doing the right things, things would turn around, that I could out work this thing I was fighting. It was all just heading to nowhere, I realized I could get hit by a car tomorrow and nobody would know this truth about me, the uphill clawing. I think now I want to turn this pain into something tangible for myself and others.If this is rock bottom I want to look around, I want to carve my name in the rock beneath my feet and remember what this feels like. I never want to know it first hand again. Maybe this is that first step. Who the hell can see forever but maybe I can just win tomorrow.

— This is the most I’ve ever written about myself and it’s a hell of a lot more than I’ve ever wanted to. Hell it’s the most I’ve ever thought of myself and part of me feels like this sounds really self obsessed. But I think, at least I hope, it’s just a self awareness that comes from no longer seeing the contrasts in life.

If you are reading this it means that 1) you’ve found this randomly, and in which case… “sup?” or 2) you are one of the maybe 4 people I genuinely trust to tell this too without fear of being treated differently after doing it. If it is option 2…Surprise? I’ve worked extremely hard to make sure you couldn’t have seen this coming. It also means that you’ve shown me love implicitly in such a way that removes so much doubt, I hope you know how powerful and beautiful that is.

I don’t know man I think this is all really just about wanting to feel that oneness with myself again, to finally find peace one day. I don’t have to live, I get to, and I want too. The world is abhorrently beautiful man. daunting, ridiculous, backbreaking and gorgeous. I want to feel all of it, I want to find my place in it and I can’t do it alone. Not anymore.

Happy Birthday to me. ayeee.

#depression.#happy birthday #35mm #nikon #photography #photoessay #technicially #ironandwinereferences #lost in my mind

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batterymonster2021 · 5 years ago

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My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

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My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

Translator: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo whats up everybody. I am Sam, and i simply turned 17. A number of years ago, earlier than my freshman yr in excessive tuition, I wanted to play snare drum within the Foxboro high institution Marching Band, and it was once a dream that I just had to achieve. However each and every snare drum and harness weighed about 40 kilos every, and i’ve a disorder called Progeria. So just to give you an inspiration, I weigh most effective about 50 pounds. So, logistically, I relatively could not lift a regular sized snare drum, and on the grounds that of this the band director assigned me to play pit percussion for the duration of the halftime exhibit. Now pit percussion used to be fun. It involved some quite cool auxiliary percussion devices, like the bongos, timpani, and timbales, and cowbell. So it was fun, nevertheless it worried no marching, and that i was simply so devastated. Nonetheless, nothing used to be going to stop me from enjoying snare drum with the marching band within the halftime show.So my household and i worked with an engineer to design a snare drum harness that may be lighter, and simpler for me to carry. So after steady work, we made a snare drum equipment that weighs handiest about 6 kilos. (Applause) I just want to provide you with some extra know-how about Progeria. It affects handiest about 350 kids at present, worldwide. So it is pretty rare, and the results of Progeria comprise: tight epidermis, lack of weight reap, stunted progress, and coronary heart disorder.Final yr my mother and her team of scientists published the first successful Progeria medication be trained, and seeing that of this I was once interviewed on NPR, and John Hamilton asked me the query: "what’s the major thing that humans should find out about you?" And my answer used to be with ease that i’ve a very pleased lifestyles. (Applause) So despite the fact that there are lots of limitations in my existence, with plenty of them being created by Progeria, I do not need humans to suppose unhealthy for me. I don’t suppose about these limitations always, and i’m in a position to overcome most of them anyway.So Im right here today, to share with you my philosophy for a comfortable existence. So, for me, there are 3 aspects to this philosophy. So this can be a quote from the famous Ferris Bueller. The first side to my philosophy is that Im k with what I finally cant do considering there’s a lot i can do. Now individuals commonly ask me questions like, "Isnt it difficult living with Progeria?" or "What daily challenges of Progeria do you face?" And id like to assert that, even though i have Progeria, most of my time is spent fascinated with matters that don’t have anything to do with Progeria in any respect.Now this doesnt imply that I ignore the poor aspects of these limitations. When I cant do whatever like run a protracted distance, or go on an intense curler coaster, i know what Im lacking out on. However as a substitute, I pick to focus on the activities that i can do through matters that Im keen about, like scouting, or song, or comic books, or any of my favourite Boston sports groups. Yeah, so — (Laughter) nevertheless, commonly I ought to to find a different method to do something by means of making changes, and that i wish to put those matters in the "can do" category. Form of like you noticed with the drum earlier. So heres a clip with me enjoying Spider-Man with the Foxboro high institution Marching Band at halftime a couple of years ago. (Video) Spider-Man theme song (Applause) thanks. All correct, all right, so — That was beautiful cool, and so I was once equipped to accomplish my dream of playing snare drum with the marching band, as I consider i will do for all of my goals.So expectantly, you can accomplish your dreams as well, with this outlook. The subsequent aspect to my philosophy is that I surround myself with folks I need to be with, individuals of excessive excellent. Im enormously lucky to have an potent family, who have continuously supported me during my entire lifestyles. And Im also particularly lucky to have a quite shut group of pals at institution. Now were variety of goofy, plenty of us are band geeks, however we fairly enjoy each others manufacturer, and we aid every other out when we have to.We see each different for who we’re on the within. So that is us goofing off a little bit. So have been juniors in excessive school now, and we are able to now mentor younger band contributors, as a single collective unit. What i like about being in a group like the band, is that the song that we make collectively, is right, is actual, and it supersedes Progeria. So I dont must worry about that when Im feeling so excellent about making music. But even having made a documentary, happening tv a couple of instances, I think like Im at my easiest point when Im with the humans that surround me daily. They furnish the actual confident influences in my life, as i’m hoping i can furnish a optimistic impact in theirs as well. (Applause) thanks. So the bottom line right here, is that i am hoping you respect and love your loved ones, love your friends, for you guys, love you Bros and well known your mentors, and your group, considering the fact that they are an extraordinarily actual facet of every day lifestyles, they may be able to make a truly gigantic, constructive impact.The third aspect to the philosophy is, keep moving ahead. Heres a quote by means of a person you may be aware of, named Walt Disney, and its one in every of my favorite costs. I continually attempt to have whatever to seem ahead to. Some thing to attempt for to make my lifestyles richer. It doesnt must be enormous. It might be whatever from watching forward to the following comedian book to come back out, or happening a significant family vacation, or hanging out with my friends, to going to the following high institution soccer game. Nonetheless, all of those things hold me targeted, and comprehend that theres a shiny future ahead, and may just get me by way of some intricate instances that I may be having. Now this mentality involves staying in a forward pondering state of mind. I try difficult to not waste vigor feeling badly for myself, due to the fact that after I do, I get stuck in a paradox, where theres no room for any happiness or every other emotion. Now, its now not that I ignore when Im feeling badly, I sort of be given it, I let it in, in order that i can acknowledge it, and do what I have got to do to maneuver prior it.Once I was younger, I desired to be an engineer. I wanted to be an inventor, who would catapult the world into a greater future. Perhaps this came from my love of Legos, and the liberty of expression that I felt after I used to be constructing with them. And this used to be additionally derived from my household and my mentors, who consistently make me feel entire, and excellent about myself. Now at present my ambitions have transformed a little bit, identification like to enter the field of Biology, possibly telephone biology, or genetics, or biochemistry, or relatively something. This is a pal of mine, who I appear up to, Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, and that is us at TEDMED last 12 months, chatting away.I believe that it doesn’t matter what I select to end up, I think that i will be able to change the world. And as Im striving to change the arena, I will be completely happy. About 4 years ago, HBO began to film a documentary about my family and me referred to as existence according to Sam. That was once a beautiful excellent experience, however it was once additionally 4 years ago. And like anybody, my views on many matters have transformed, and confidently matured, like my talents career choice. Nevertheless, some matters have stayed the identical in the course of that point. Like my mentality, and philosophy closer to lifestyles. So I want to exhibit you a clip of my more youthful self from the movie, that I consider embodies that philosophy. (Video) i do know extra about it genetically. So its less of an embodiment now.It was like this factor that prevents me from doing all these things, that reasons other kids to die, that factors every person to be pressured, and now its a protein that is irregular, that weakens the constitution of cells. So, and it takes a burden off of me for the reason that now I dont have got to consider about Progeria as an entity. Okay, pretty good, huh? (Applause) thanks. So, as you can find Ive been thinking this way for a long time. However id under no circumstances particularly had to practice all of those points of my philosophy to the scan at one time, unless last January. I used to be lovely in poor health, I had a chest bloodless, and that i was once in the hospital for a number of days, and i was secluded from all the facets of my lifestyles that I felt made me, me, that form of gave me my identification.However realizing that I was once going to get higher, and watching forward to a time that i would feel good again, helped me to maintain moving forward. And commonly I needed to be brave, and it wasnt consistently easy. Usually I faltered, I had dangerous days, but i noticed that being courageous isnt speculated to be effortless. And for me, I feel its the key option to hold moving forward. So, all in all, I dont waste power feeling bad for myself.I surround myself with humans that I want to be with, and i keep relocating ahead. So with this philosophy, i hope that every one of you, in spite of your boundaries, can have an awfully happy lifestyles as good. Oh, wait, cling on a 2d, an additional piece of advice – (Laughter) on no account leave out a party if which you could help it. My faculties homecoming dance is tomorrow night, and that i can be there. Thank you very so much. (Applause) .

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airoasis · 5 years ago

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My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

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My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

Translator: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo hey every body. I am Sam, and i just grew to become 17. A number of years ago, earlier than my freshman yr in excessive school, I desired to play snare drum within the Foxboro high institution Marching Band, and it was once a dream that I simply had to achieve. However each and every snare drum and harness weighed about 40 kilos each and every, and i’ve a ailment known as Progeria. So simply to give you an suggestion, I weigh handiest about 50 pounds. So, logistically, I fairly could not raise a average sized snare drum, and due to the fact that of this the band director assigned me to play pit percussion during the halftime show.Now pit percussion used to be enjoyable. It concerned some rather cool auxiliary percussion devices, just like the bongos, timpani, and timbales, and cowbell. So it was fun, but it surely concerned no marching, and that i was once just so devastated. Nonetheless, nothing was going to discontinue me from taking part in snare drum with the marching band within the halftime show. So my family and i worked with an engineer to design a snare drum harness that will be lighter, and simpler for me to hold. So after continuous work, we made a snare drum equipment that weighs simplest about 6 kilos. (Applause) I just want to provide you with some extra know-how about Progeria. It impacts most effective about 350 kids in these days, international. So it is lovely infrequent, and the effects of Progeria comprise: tight epidermis, lack of weight acquire, stunted growth, and heart ailment. Last yr my mother and her staff of scientists published the first victorious Progeria healing study, and on the grounds that of this I was interviewed on NPR, and John Hamilton asked me the query: "what’s the predominant thing that people must find out about you?" And my reply used to be quite simply that i have an awfully completely happy life.(Applause) So even though there are numerous limitations in my existence, with plenty of them being created by using Progeria, I do not need men and women to feel unhealthy for me. I don’t consider about these limitations all the time, and i’m able to beat most of them anyway. So Im right here in these days, to share with you my philosophy for a completely happy existence. So, for me, there are three facets to this philosophy. So this is a quote from the noted Ferris Bueller. The primary side to my philosophy is that Im k with what I finally cant do when you consider that there’s so much i can do. Now individuals frequently question me questions like, "Isnt it rough residing with Progeria?" or "What everyday challenges of Progeria do you face?" And identification like to claim that, although i’ve Progeria, most of my time is spent fascinated by matters that don’t have anything to do with Progeria in any respect. Now this doesnt imply that I ignore the terrible facets of those limitations.After I cant do something like run a long distance, or go on an severe roller coaster, i know what Im lacking out on. But alternatively, I decide on to focus on the hobbies that i can do by way of matters that Im passionate about, like scouting, or song, or comedian books, or any of my favorite Boston physical activities groups. Yeah, so — (Laughter) nevertheless, usually I need to in finding an additional solution to do some thing by using making adjustments, and that i wish to put these matters within the "can do" class. Form of like you noticed with the drum prior. So heres a clip with me taking part in Spider-Man with the Foxboro high school Marching Band at halftime a few years in the past. (Video) Spider-Man theme track (Applause) thank you. All proper, all correct, so — That was once lovely cool, and so I was able to accomplish my dream of playing snare drum with the marching band, as I believe i can do for all of my goals.So with a bit of luck, that you would be able to accomplish your desires as good, with this outlook. The next side to my philosophy is that I surround myself with humans I want to be with, individuals of high fine. Im extremely lucky to have an strong family, who’ve normally supported me for the duration of my entire life. And Im also relatively lucky to have a particularly shut team of acquaintances at school. Now had been sort of goofy, a number of us are band geeks, but we quite experience every others organization, and we support each other out once we have got to. We see each different for who we are on the within.So that is us goofing off a little bit. So were juniors in excessive school now, and we will now mentor more youthful band participants, as a single collective unit. What i love about being in a bunch like the band, is that the music that we make together, is right, is actual, and it supersedes Progeria. So I dont have got to worry about that when Im feeling so excellent about making song.But even having made a documentary, going on tv a few occasions, I consider like Im at my easiest point when Im with the folks that encompass me day-to-day. They provide the real positive influences in my existence, as i am hoping i will furnish a optimistic have an impact on in theirs as good. (Applause) thanks. So the bottom line here, is that i’m hoping you respect and love your loved ones, love your pals, for you guys, love you Bros and renowned your mentors, and your neighborhood, considering they are an extraordinarily actual part of every day existence, they can make a real large, confident influence. The 0.33 facet to the philosophy is, preserve moving ahead. Heres a quote by means of a person you can also comprehend, named Walt Disney, and its considered one of my favourite quotes. I at all times attempt to have something to look ahead to. Anything to attempt for to make my lifestyles richer. It doesnt ought to be significant. It might be anything from looking ahead to the following comic publication to return out, or occurring a large family trip, or striking out with my neighbors, to going to the subsequent high college soccer recreation.Nevertheless, all of these things preserve me centered, and comprehend that theres a vibrant future forward, and could get me by means of some complex occasions that I is also having. Now this mentality includes staying in a ahead pondering state of mind. I are attempting hard to not waste vigour feeling badly for myself, considering the fact that after I do, I get stuck in a paradox, the place theres no room for any happiness or every other emotion.Now, its no longer that I ignore when Im feeling badly, I type of receive it, I let it in, so that i can well known it, and do what I have got to do to maneuver previous it. Once I was more youthful, I wanted to be an engineer. I wanted to be an inventor, who would catapult the sector into a greater future. Might be this got here from my love of Legos, and the freedom of expression that I felt once I was constructing with them. And this used to be additionally derived from my family and my mentors, who always make me feel whole, and good about myself. Now at present my ambitions have converted slightly bit, id like to go into the subject of Biology, maybe cellphone biology, or genetics, or biochemistry, or rather some thing.This can be a buddy of mine, who I seem up to, Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, and this is us at TEDMED last year, chatting away. I believe that no matter what I decide upon to turn out to be, I feel that i can change the sector. And as Im striving to vary the arena, I can be blissful. About four years ago, HBO began to film a documentary about my household and me known as life in line with Sam. That used to be a sexy nice expertise, nevertheless it was also 4 years in the past. And like any one, my views on many things have modified, and optimistically matured, like my skills career choice.However, some matters have stayed the equal for the duration of that point. Like my mentality, and philosophy closer to existence. So I wish to exhibit you a clip of my younger self from the film, that I feel embodies that philosophy. (Video) i know extra about it genetically. So its much less of an embodiment now. It used to be like this factor that prevents me from doing all this stuff, that reasons different kids to die, that reasons everybody to be stressed, and now its a protein that is abnormal, that weakens the constitution of cells. So, and it takes a burden off of me considering now I dont must believe about Progeria as an entity. K, beautiful just right, huh? (Applause) thanks.So, as you will see that Ive been pondering this fashion for many years. However identity on no account really needed to apply all of those points of my philosophy to the scan at one time, except final January. I was once pretty unwell, I had a chest bloodless, and that i used to be in the medical institution for a few days, and that i was once secluded from all of the features of my existence that I felt made me, me, that type of gave me my identification. But realizing that I was going to get higher, and watching ahead to a time that i might consider just right once more, helped me to hold moving ahead. And many times I needed to be courageous, and it wasnt perpetually convenient. Sometimes I faltered, I had unhealthy days, but i noticed that being brave isnt imagined to be convenient. And for me, I think its the important thing option to keep relocating forward. So, all in all, I dont waste power feeling dangerous for myself. I encompass myself with people that I want to be with, and that i hold moving ahead. So with this philosophy, i hope that each one of you, despite your barriers, can have an extraordinarily completely satisfied life as well.Oh, wait, dangle on a 2d, one other piece of advice – (Laughter) on no account omit a occasion if that you can aid it. My schools homecoming dance is the next day night time, and that i will be there. Thank you very much. (Applause) .

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jess-oh · 7 years ago

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Reflection

i just hardcore vented to emily and im usually pretty weary and careful of bringing up my relationship with God and the church to her bc i know she isnt religious but i was just so furious and on a role that i didnt really care

but yeah JKBHFDLKNF,AMDFJKSHL

im just so frickin MAD

first, i was mad with andrew and sofia bc they dont see the point in giving bobby(sofia’s ex) closure and theres nothing that i can say to change their mind but i cant believe how unbelievably selfish theyre being in not letting him know that the reason sofia and he broke up was not because of anything that he did wrong but bc she had her own personal things to deal with and their argument is why should they open up an old wound and just bring back the hurt? and theyre assuming hes moved on bc hes dated other people since sofia but doesnt mean it doesnt bother him and that hes gotten over it. and andrew kept rushing to sofia’s aid and saying why should she have to tell him if she doesnt want to and that mindset is just so selfish. it’s not about you. it’s not just about how you feel or what you want to do. this is about him and what you did to hurt him, whether or not it was intentional. and i think it’s valid to still address the problem and get it over with and leave it behind. time means nothing. you can spend your whole life wondering what you did wrong bc you never got closure. and im just so frustrated bc i know that no matter what i say, they wont change their minds and see that theyre wrong.

and with p josh, i was walking home with angela today and i realized that he has so many flaws but his heart is too offendable and always takes criticism really poorly which is a big issue and im the most frustrated bc his whole thing is serving others and being like Jesus and the disciples but he plays the power card all too frequently and it doesnt feel like hes actually trying to serve us. and he cant be so ambitious with his vision and goals and expect everyone else to play along. we have our own things to deal with and just because he can do something doesnt mean everyone else can be expected to follow at the same level. they might not be used to it and everyone reacts to things differently. just bc jason is a great server doesnt mean i will be. i freaking suck at being a server and i could never do it. i dont do well in stressful, spontaneous situations. but i am good at planning long term events but that doesnt mean he can.

i think more importantly, we’re getting away from the vision. a church is a hospital for the broken and not a place to put saints on display. and i think we’ve started to become too into our own vision instead of God’s vision and we need to get back to basics and build up from there. we are being too ambitious with everything right now and there is a lot of transition happening and p josh cannot expect us to keep up with him when we have our own things in our lives to deal with. i am still so impacted by that one line from “Kuya Derek” that said, “I am a Christian but I am more defined by Jesus than I am by the doctrine.” God is love. Everything that the Ecclessia is is rooted in love. And by saying, “if you feel uncomfortable or have a problem with something, you can leave.” P Josh words things really poorly a lot and I dont think we should attack him with all of his flaws at once on Sunday. This is an ongoing process and he’s only human and we cant expect him to immediately change. But I do really think we need to address his offendable heart and his power cards. How can he preach about wanting to make MAST something where students are serving others when he cant even do that for us? He’s being open about his issues and I respect that but he is still so blind. I almost feel like he’s telling us part of his struggles and flaws and just turning a blind eye to the real issues at hand in an effort to make himself look better. and now that i type that, i dont believe it to be true. but he HAS to be aware of these things. how can he hope that anyone will follow him when hes being such a hypocrite? And this is definitely something that I need to calm down about and pray about but asdfghjkl;

i definitely want to make a list and have it ready to address during our meeting on sunday.

also, i feel like angela has disliked me as a person for a while so i am really glad we’re getting along so well now but i also dont want our friendship to be rooted in hate. i dont want to just bond with her bc we gossip about other people. i want to really be her friend but i do think bc we’re both so straightforward and blunt, we have the potential to become really close.

and i should address this in the future but i didnt today but she talked about how shes really passionate about the LGBTQ+ community today but the church finds that a really taboo topic to address and she doesnt want it to be like that but shes made fun of the politically correct culture at Columbia on more than a handful of occassions and that actually really turned me off and discouraged to bring up the topic in the past.

and another thing for p josh, i know that he wants lakeview to be a more multicultural place again and i wasnt there for that and i just feel like hes so in love with how things used to be but he needs to recognize that this isnt the past. this is now. we can try to be a more multicultural place again and think about what we can do now but he cant expect it to be like how it once was bc it will never be the same again. it will change and it will be different.

im also surprised he didnt tell angela about when i called him out on his decision making bc that was lowkey one of my fears that he vented to jason and angela so im surprised she was surprised about it.

but yeah, im gonna finish watching new girl, shower, pack a little, and start to pray about this.

im sad today was the last life group but im also glad i got to pray for everyone bc i really wanted to. and today was actually so nice and felt so comfortable. we’re usually so tense and awkward but today was so much fun and i feel like everyone felt like they were free to be themselves and i really really enjoyed it. i just wish we couldve had this time sooner on.

im starting to calm down and just imagine different scenarios and what i would say to him and how he would react.

i think the transition with the life groups and people leaving is a blessing in disguise. i think it’s been easy to get caught up in the details and logistics but we are now so far from the vision of it all. we’ve gotten so caught up with planning and thinking about how to benefit the most people that we have strayed so far away from what it means to love. to accept, and care, and invest, and love. and that’s what the church should be rooted in. out with the racism and cultural biases. what do we have if God is not at the center of it all. we shouldnt be thinking about how to benefit the most people. we should be thinking about how to save that one lost sheep.

and i will not leave lakeview. i refuse. God called me here for a reason and I intend to carry out His Will. and to combat Rachel’s argument of if you dont feel comfortable being around other Koreans, then you should leave, to that i say this—

we are the church and should be appealing to EVERYONE. regardless of their race. and dont get me wrong, i totally see the appeal in having a predominantly Korean American church. I grew up in a white dominated neighborhood and was never really around Korean culture. my parents never spoke korean to me. there were always barely any Asians at my school. The cousins near my age lived on the other side of the country and my cousins that lived in California are wayyyy older than me and i didnt start talking to them until Robbin passed away. And I am still so hurt and saddened by him bc i still do not fully understand why God had to take him away from this Earth. And I know that so much good has come from it but it still hurts and pains me so much to this day but I am choosing to trust in God’s reasoning and plan and will and just trust that there was a reason why he took Robbin from this Earth. So yes, I see the appeal. But we really should not be preaching to each other and other Koreans. We should be preaching to ANYONE that can hear the Word.

#reflection

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survivorelsalvador · 7 years ago

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EPISODE 12 - Let The Big Dogs Fight It Out - Chips

(If a confessional is just a gif or a picture then it was most likely Veronica, winner of Jeju Island, uwu <3)

Ashton

Ayyy finally on top. I've been playing from the bottom for most of the game and now I finally have the numbers. Me Richie Lily and Chips, That's the four and I plan on going all the way with them. Wow it feels good right now. Finally have some power.

Dana

"WHY DON'T YOU REINTRODUCE YOURSELF LILY... AS QUEEN OF LYING.

I 100% deserve this flip from Lily. But Nicholas? Honestly, he's self-proclaimed bobo the fool part 2. Lily really got us good.

Realistically, I probably should have seen this coming, but I didn't bring snakey, cutthroat, paranoid, always-paying-attention, and plotting Dana to this game. I brought the most ~causal~ UTR version of myself instead, so I wasn't even thinking about people flipping on me.

What does this mean for me in the game? I have NOTHING to lose. I called people snakes in tribe chat tonight, basically, I'm being the best version of myself. Don't think you can take sweet beautiful Queen Willow from me without thinking you'll have hell to pay. Me, Zak, and Nicholas are hopefully going to figure something out to keep at least a few of us around as long as possible. Zak added us to an alliance chat called ""are we aligned,"" which I think pretty perfectly describes the fresh hell and confusion this game has been so far. I DIDN'T EVEN WORRY ABOUT NOT HAVING ALLIANCE CHATS. That's how fucking chill i'm trying to be.

Now lets move on to Lily. I'll applaud her, a VERY good move. On a personal level? I absolutely love her, she's a great friend. BUT she must have learned something from Bahamas Dana, huh? Sometimes you have to lie in this game to win, and I think she has set herself up very well to be at FTC and i'd be ecstatic to see her get there, because my questions for her are already nice and prepared. If Lily gets to FTC, she's facing a MASSIVE problem. Lily PREACHES honesty and loyalty, and in this game, I believe her lack of both of those in this game will be to her fault. See here's the thing, if you don't PREACH a loyal game and PROMISE honesty, but people believe you are loyal anyway, you can act however you want and apologize later. You never set any expectations for your behavior in that scenario, other people did, and you simply broke them. HOWEVER, Princess Lily MISSED a piece from my Bahamas playbook. Because she has vowed loyalty all along in this game. She in fact DID NOT vote for me in Bahamas because according to her own metrics for voting, you should vote for someone whose loyalty compensates for what they lack in strategic gameplay. We have had this conversation in and out of game context, where she insists that this is the way to vote in this game. NOW. If that is true, then Lily has basically already asked me not to vote for her at the end of this game and I'd be HAPPY not to.

She's going to have a difficult time because both logically and logistically speaking, how am I supposed to analyze her game play any different than she has assessed and devalued mine in the past? At the same time, how could I blatantly reject the ways she has HERSELF asked others to evaluate her game play in the past?

Tonight had me SHOOK, but also infinitely more excited to see what happens next. I love waiting on apology tours :')

Nicholas

Dana

Time to cause as many problems as possible. I'm going to be telling lies as fast as I can type them. I'm at the point where I go home if I don't tell enough lies today, so i'm here for it. I have a 50/50 chance of going home according to Lily, which means that I'm going to post my boot list and who i'll vote for to win in the tribe chat and just let that bomb explode. If I go home, it's been fun and I can't wait to fuck with people on jury.

Richie

well that vote went really easy for how complicated it was... willows gone (RIP) and no idol was played so we could have taken either nicholas or dana out but thats fine willow was a threat because people liked her i'm just nervous about an idol this round im still suspicious about nicholas having an idol so i think voting out zak would be the safest thing to do because he'd be the least likely to get the idol played on him if nicholas is in possession of it??? but i just won another immunity even though i didnt really want to and the target on my back is just increasing and theres probably no way i make it to the end unless i win out and ive really just been getting lucky on these comps so thats not realistic lmao

Chips

So, highkey, I'm working incredibly closely with Richie in this game because why not and if he wins over me I honestly don't care since the last game we played in together I robbed him of the final two when I won the final individual immunity challenge.

Anyway, he tells me that Dana is pitching hard for her alliance of three Dana/Zak/Nicholas to stay by claiming that she just NOW started talking to Zak anyway. I'm just - Okay... I want to just say bye to the three of them. After that group from the tribe before merge tried to come for my life if not for an idol play they all need to go before I feel comfortable. Richie feels similarly, we're thinking when it gets to final five is when we're going to turn on our own alliance and cut Lily... but until then our group of four should be sticking together.

The only wrinkle in our plan is that they have two vote cancelers which means they can force a tie or something? I dunno... I'm just gonna sit back and let the big dogs fight it out.

Ashton

Here comes the pagonging. Well hopefully. Thats the best case scenario for my game at least. At this point there isn't much of a reason to vote me out. I'm pretty beatable at the end since I don't even talk to the other side. So rn my plan is to just make sure all my alliance members want to take me to final 2/3. Also please be final 2 I think my only chance to win would be Chips and I at the end. If it's a final 3 then i'm fucked cuz either Richie or Lily will win.

Lily

Well damn. I guess I successfully flipped??? Richie is defiently keeping me in the loop now and I love it (and him) and hope that we can stay strong until the end. I feel so bad for turning on Nicholas but he seemed so adamant on voting with Dana I didn't want to ruin the plan by telling him. We will see how the votes go tonight. If there are three votes or two votes because I'm negating danas vote then I will know Nicholas voted with Dana and zak. This is fine but it would be nice to know that Nicholas still doesn't want to vote for me. It would be nice to some how take him farther if he has an idol or something. But I just don't think it would be possible. I wish I had an idol because I would totally do another flip cause that would just make this game crazier and honestly that's what the confessionals need. Hopefully I make it past this and all the way to an FTC. If not, I really hope they get me out this time so I can keep the 7 streak alive. We will see. Dana claims to have majority but I just don't see it. But you never know I told Dana to always keep fighting and I know she has been working Richie hard I hope when I explain my entire game to her in FTC (if I magically get there) that she could at least consider voting for me. I still feel as though I played a loyal game. I had to continue the lie from that one vote much longer than anticipated, and I hope she knows how much of a bad ass she is and how much I love her. Nicholas Richie chips Dana Ashton zak Ily (zak thank you for all the snaps it's me or you bud or it's rocks and then it's not me or you so we can continue the snap streak fuck yeah) 🦄

#ididntconsent

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hemcountry · 8 years ago

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INTERVIEW: Seattle country band the Country Lips

We’re lucky to receive loads of new country music from around the world, however, that can present a problem, who do we write about? What will our readers find interesting?

Well, one band caught our attention long before we heard a note of music, they are Seattle-based band Country Lips who had sent us their single Grizzly Bear Billboard.

The band are made up of 8 members Austin Jacobsen (bass) Trevor Pendras (electric guitar, vocals) Miles Burnett (drums, vocals) Hamilton Boyce (electric guitar, vocals), Alex Leake – (acoustic guitar, vocals) Jonah Byrne (fiddle) Kenny Aramaki (Keys) and Gus Clark (accordion, mandolin).

Trevor took some time to answer our questions.

Q. Where did the name for the band come from? Was there any other name suggested?

A. I lived with our drummer’s older brother and we used to jam on country tunes at the house. I remember him calling up to me that he wanted me to come down and play some country lips. I assume it was an instance of misspeaking and he meant to say country licks, but we laughed at it and somehow it became our band name. There may have been another suggestion, but I don’t remember there being much debate.

Q. Now Google tells me that Seattle is 2,391 miles from Nashville, so how do 8 lads from Seattle find themselves in a country band?

A. We all had our own backgrounds with country music, whether it was growing up with it or just having an appreciation for the musicianship. Seattle and the northwest has actually had a solid country scene for as long as it’s had a music scene. Though more recently it may been known for it’s folky americana output, there are a number of great country bands playing all manner of country music in venus around town. I fell into it through the guitar, country pickin’ is some of the quirkiest and most nuanced style of electric guitar playing and it was the style I most wanted to learn to play ever since I picked up a guitar.

Q. I’m not a fan of labeling music, I think people should just listen to what they like but to give our readers an idea of your music what style would you describe the band?

A. I’d say it’s party country. West-coast country. Honky tonk meets norteño.

Q. Listening to the album ‘Till the Daylight Comes’, I found myself imaging this music from the era of Johnny Cash. Was this something you was conscious of/aiming for?

A. We certainly focus on the harder-edged side of country music, which Cash brought to the masses back in his heyday. I think the best country music is the kind that is a little bit dangerous and aggressive, so that much is on purpose.

Q. Which musicians inspired your sound?

A. There are a lot, and it depends on which member you ask. A few that we set out to emulate early on were Merle Haggard, George Jones, Dwight Yoakum, Charlie Rich, Willie Nelson, that ilk. More recently we’ve drawn influence from tex-mex and norteño bands.

Q. Where did the song title Grizzly Bear Billboard come from?

Grizzly Bear Billboard some “imagined lyrical imagery”. Photo by Jake Clifford

A. That came from a bit of imagined lyrical imagery. It’s part of a song that was about remembering things in a certain way. For some reason I imagined a billboard with a bear on it, maybe inspired by Grizzly chewing tobacco or Big Bear malt liquor, but it was a vivid image in my mind and I just went with it.

Q. The song Only Here Long Enough to Leave has the essentials for a country song: steel guitar, deep voice, a cheeky little bit of honky tonk piano and a story about heartache.

A. Yeah Hamilton brought that idea to the table. The idea became to scale it up with each verse, speaking first about being in a place, then in a relationship, then on this earth… just long enough to leave. We imagined a video for it that still hasn’t happened but would just be Hamilton looking really bummed just going from place to place and immediately leaving.

Q. Where do you find your songwriting inspirations from?

A. A lot of mine come as exaggerated (or not) versions of my own frustrations with work or life or relationships and the general social deviance that comes with such frustrations. Musically I like to try to pick a different avenue or niche of country music to try to write in each time, in part to challenge myself but also to keep things interesting. Sometimes too we’ll just come up with a fun country one-liner and just have to build a song around it.

Q. If you had to highlight one or two tracks that just had to be on the album, which ones and why?

A. I’d say Laundromat and Grizzly Bear Billboard. Laundromat has that bouncy two-step feel that we often use as our backbone, a stacked riff we all play together, and the relentless two-part harmony which I feel marks our sound. And Grizzly Bear Billboard marks one of our first somewhat serious take on a mid-tempo country song, and it comes with a music video we made at a county fair in southern Washington with Coco Foto.

Q. I read a review by a SongKick user who said

“Many of the band members are very individualist and I am happy that they have the courage and ability to not have to conform to what is considered “normal” behavior when performing”

Q. What do you think of that? I can see why one would say that. We certainly are a group of characters and I think that shows. We are like any group of great friends, all unique and all having a lot of fun.

Q. Do you feel pressure to conform and be normal? Certainly not. The pressure we put on ourselves, beyond being great musicians, is to continue trying to be original and unique.

Q. Jacob Uitti at KEXP 90.3 Seattle said:

“In a city not known for its folk music, accordion playing and hip shaking, Country Lips bring the best out of their considerable audiences”

This kind of touches on my previous question, I’m not sure people are expecting to find such a sound in Seattle, so why do you think fan’s in Seattle are attracted to the music?

A. This has been one of the more inspiring things to happen. We all love country music because we know it can be fun, party music and so we made a point to try to play to that side of country. And along the way we were able to share that with people who may not have thought they liked country. Its fun and easy to dance to, its songs about relatable everyday problems, and theres drinking.

Q. What’s it like trying to get 8 musicians plus instruments on the road?

The Ford E350 keeping the Country Lips on the road – Credit Connie Aramaki

A. Its a challenge! Logistically it’s always tough getting 8 people to be able to take the time out of their lives to travel around together. We have a little bus, a ford E350 shuttle – it looks like an airporter or a retirement home van – that has been super reliable for us and has taken us as far as Texas and back safely.

Q. When can we expect you in the UK?

A. Sooner than later we hope! We certainly want to make it overseas as soon as we can, its just about working out the logistics and finding the gigs. Keep an eye out for us though for sure.

Make sure you find the band online:

Facebook /countrylips | Twitter @countrylips | Instagram /country.lips | Website countrylips.com

INTERVIEW: Seattle country band the Country Lips was originally published on HEM COUNTRY

#Country Lips #Country Music #Grizzly Bear Billboard #Interview #Seattle Country Music #countrymusic #countrynews. IrishCountry #UKCountry

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batterymonster2021 · 5 years ago

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My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

New Post has been published on https://hititem.kr/my-philosophy-for-a-happy-life-sam-berns-tedxmidatlantic-8/

My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic

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