#it always will be “da ba de da ba di”

[chrlotpony]

"I thought it was da ba dee da ba di??"

"THERES LYRICS?!"

"'if I was green I would die' is a reference to a cover"

"new gen, it's actually da ba di da ba die"

my autistic ass who's been comically in love with I'm blue by eiffel 65 since being conceived

[frierenscript]

Hiragana and Katakana / ひらがな、カタカナ

There are 3 types of characters in Japanese - Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.

Hiragana(ひらがな) is the easiest to read, and every sentence can be written in it, just like alphabet in English, even if we don't know correct Kanji.

Katakana(カタカナ) is another version of Hiragana, used for the words from foreign countries. For example, we write "ケーキ"(from "cake" in English) or "パン"(from "pão" in Portuguese, which means "bread" in English) as both didn't originally exist in Japan.

Kanji was brought from China, of course, and were developed as Japanese characters. Each Kanji has each meaning, so it makes us easier to understand what it exactly means. For example, when we see "いし", we don't know what it means because we have many words of the same sound ;石(stone), 意思(intention), 医師(doctor), etc.

Japanese sentences are made up of a mixture of these three types of characters.

Hereunder you can see the list of Hiragana and Katakana.

基本ひらがな（Basic Hiragana）

-for keyboard input-

あ(A)   い(I)    う(U)    え(E)   お（O）  

か(Ka)  き(Ki)   く(Ku)  け(Ke)  こ(Ko) 

さ(Sa)  し(Shi)  す(Su)  せ(Se)  そ(So) 

た(Ta)  ち(Chi)  つ(Tsu) て(Te)  と(To) 

な(Na)  に(Ni)   ぬ(Nu)  ね(Ne)  の(No) 

は(Ha)  ひ(Hi)  ふ(Fu)  へ(He)  ほ(Ho) 

ま(Ma)  み(Mi)  む(Mu)  め(Me)  も(Mo) 

や(Ya)          ゆ(Yu)         よ(Yo) 

ら(Ra)  り(Ri)   る(Ru)  れ(Re)  ろ(Ro) 

わ(Wa)                      　　　　  を(Wo) 

ん(N)    

As for pronunciation...

orange colored characters are sometimes different from the original sounds.（は may be pronounced "Wa", へ may be "E", and it depends on how to use the character in the sentence.)

Red colored ones are completely different.(を is always pronounced "o", not "wo".)

                           

濁音(Daku-on)～濁点付き(With ゛　Dakuten)

が(Ga)  ぎ(Gi)  ぐ(Gu)  げ(Ge)  ご(Go)

ざ(Za)  じ(Ji)   ず(Zu)  ぜ（Ze) ぞ(Zo)

だ(Da)  ぢ(Di)  づ(Du)  で(De)  ど(Do)

ば(Ba)  び(Bi)  ぶ(Bu)  べ(Be)  ぼ(Bo)

Pronunciation : ぢ＝"Dzi" or "Ji"

づ＝"Dzu" or "Zu"

半濁音(Han-dakuon)～半濁点付き(With ゜Han-

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　dakuten)

ぱ(Pa)  ぴ(Pi)  ぷ(Pu)  ぺ(Pe)  ぽ(Po)

拗音(You-on)

きゃ(Kya)       きゅ(Kyu)      きょ(Kyo)

ぎゃ(Gya)       ぎゅ(Gyu)     ぎょ(Gyo)

しゃ(Sha)       しゅ(Shu)      しょ(Sho)

じゃ(Ja)　      じゅ(Ju)       じょ(Jo)

ちゃ(Cha)       ちゅ(Chu)     ちょ(Cho) 

ぢゃ(Dya)       ぢゅ(Dyu)     ぢょ(Dyo)

にゃ(Nya)       にゅ(Nyu)     にょ(Nyo)

ひゃ(Hya)       ひゅ(Hyu)     ひょ(Hyo) 

びゃ(Bya)       びゅ(Byu)     びょ(Byo)

ぴゃ(Pya)       ぴゅ(Pyu)     ぴょ(Pyo)

みゃ(Mya)       みゅ(Myu)     みょ(Myo)

りゃ(Rya)       りゅ(Ryu)      りょ(Ryo)

Pronunciation : ぢゃ＝ "Dza" or "Ja"

　　　　　　　　ぢゅ＝"Dzu" or "Ju"

　　　　　　　　ぢょ＝"Dzo" or "Jo"

促音(Soku-on)＝ っ 小さい「つ」（Small“tsu”）

There is no romaji for single small “っ”,

because we add one more next character,

like きって＝Kitte , or はっぱ＝Happa.

基本カタカナ（Basic Katakana）

Pronunciation is completely same as Hiragana and please read above in detail.

ア(A)   イ(I)    ウ(U)   エ(E)   オ(O)

カ(Ka)  キ(Ki)   ク(Ku)  ケ(Ke)  コ(Ko)

サ(Sa)  シ(Shi)  ス(Su)  セ(Se)  ソ(So)

タ(Ta)  チ(Chi)  ツ(Tsu) テ(Te)  ト(To)

ナ(Na)  ニ(Ni)  ヌ(Nu)  ネ(Ne)  ノ(No)

ハ(Ha)  ヒ(Hi)   フ(Fu)  ヘ(He)  ホ(Ho)

マ(Ma)  ミ(Mi)  ム(Mu)  メ(Me)  モ(Mo)

ヤ(Ya)        　　 ユ(Yu)         　 ヨ(Yo)

ラ(Ra)  リ(Ri)   ル(Ru)  レ(Re)  ロ(Ro)

ワ(Wa)                       　　　  ヲ(Wo)

ン(N)

濁音(Daku-on)～濁点付き(With ゛　Dakuten)

ガ(Ga)  ギ(Gi)   グ(Gu)  ゲ(Ge)  ゴ(Go)

ザ(Za)  ジ(Ji)   ズ(Zu)  ゼ（Ze）  ゾ(Zo)

ダ(Da)  ヂ(Di)  ヅ(Du)  デ(De)  ド(Do)

バ(Ba)  ビ(Bi)   ブ(Bu)  ベ(Be)  ボ(Bo)

半濁音(Han-dakuon)～半濁点付き(With ゜　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Han-dakuten)

パ(Pa)  ピ(Pi)   プ(Pu)  ペ(Pe)  ポ(Po)

拗音(You-on)

キャ(Kya)       キュ(Kyu)      キョ(Kyo)

ギャ(Gya)       ギュ(Gyu)      ギョ(Gyo)

シャ(Sha)       シュ(Shu)      ショ(Sho)

ジャ(Ja)    　    ジュ(Ju)       ジョ(Jo)

チャ(Cha)       チュ(Chu)      チョ(Cho)

ヂャ(Dya)       ヂュ(Dyu)      ヂョ(Dyo)

ニャ(Nya)       ニュ(Nyu)      ニョ(Nyo)

ヒャ(Hya)       ヒュ(Hyu)       ヒョ(Hyo)

ビャ(Bya)       ビュ(Byu)       ビョ(Byo)

ピャ(Pya)       ピュ(Pyu)       ピョ(Pyo)

ミャ(Mya)       ミュ(Myu)       ミョ(Myo)

リャ(Rya)       リュ(Ryu)       リョ(Ryo)

促音(Soku-on)＝ ッ 小さい「ツ」（Small “tsu”）

[onemorestepahead]

12 April ‘24

01:35am

I want you to go away from me as far as you could. I dont want you to ever worry, think, ya kuch vi Ekam! I am a mess deep inside, I guess I always have been. I should have never let you come this close to me yaara!

I dont why I was waiting for you to come back from India and wanted to talk to you about the future we both might could have. Par things are changing I guess babe. I cant see you ihda ! You are the only important person other than my family to me now. Tainu ihda vekhna kills me inside yaara par fer selfish ho jaana and try to talk/meet you. I guess bas yaadan ikathiya kari jaana pya! Pta hi nai lagga sohneya kado ihna jaroori ho gya tu nai te rok hi lainda apne aap nu! Teri life te na ihda di karda! Hun te bas ehi pashtaava reh gya par tainu milan da ya vekhan da ik vi moment pashtaava nai aa. Rabb ne mainu ihna ku time tere naal de ditta, bas ehi shukar ohda! I wish apne dovaa da future kuch hor hunda. I have been so sure about you and wanted to spend my life with you shuru toh hi. Tere lyi saari duniya naal larh jaanda par tainu na hurt karda. Bas tainu reejh naal pyaar larn da mauka nai mileya yaara, te jehde moments larhda rehya oh vi pyaar naal hi kadh sakda si! Bas ehi gal nai samjh laggi par I want you to remember this, eh apne dovaa de vich jo vi hoya ihda har ek moment meant world to me. Bas ihde baarey kadi regret na kari putt! Tu meri jaan aa jaan te hamesha rahenga. Ihda da pyaar nai hoya mere toh pehla kadi te hun te vaise vi nai hona kadi. Ajeeb ee nasha tu te mere layi.

All I want is to see you happy. Te je agree kardi aa tah mainu jaan de! Tere te teri life layi ehi sahi aa putt. I dont think I will be able to stop loving you te jhooth keh ke nai pejna chahunda! Shayad kadi mauka vi na miley ihda khul ke kehan da!

[walt-thisney]

Review @ Bad Alchemy Magazine ( Germany )

Fernando Cerqueira ist der rote Faden, der SPH als post-industriales Kassettenforum der Jahre 1990-94 verknüpft mit Thisco als 2001 zusammen mit Luis Van Seixas gegründetes Spielfeld der Sound Culture. Seit der 2015 begonnenen und 2021 explosiven Auf­erweckung von SPH führt er beides parallel. Wobei er sich selber aktiv eingemischt hat mit Croniamantal und Ras.Al.Ghul, als Rasal.Asad und Whalt Thisney. Atonal 3(SPH110, C-46) knüpft nun in Fortsetzung von „Atonal Vol 2 - Encyclopedia of Obscure Aural Won­ders – 80´s/90´s“ (SPH108, 2021) an „Atonal“ (SPH001, 1990) als dem einstigen Start­schuss an. Mit If, Bwana (Al Margolis), Pas Musique (Robert L. Pepper), Konstruktivists (Glenn Michael Wallis), Discmen (José António Moura), Geins't Naït (Laurent Petitgand & Thierry Mérigout) und Arcane Device (David Lee Myers). Dadurch, dass nur Kapotte Mu­zieks 'Various excerpts going at once from a concert at the Hörbar, Hamburg, 17 May 2012', 'Untitled (1980)' von Francisco Lopez und Manuel Motas 'Guitarra Electri-acústica 1996' zeitlich markiert sind, erschallt der Klang und Krach des elektrolurchigen Under­grounds als Kontinuum der vergangenen 4 ½ Jahrzehnte. Komprimiert sind die Turbinen und ratternden Züge der noch schweren Industriezeit und das Knistern, Bersten, Prasseln im elektrifizierten Nahbereich zum Hirnsausen und rabiaten Synapsenschliff, mit plunder­phonischen und ambienten Einsprengseln. Automatisch getaktet und sirrend als keuchen­de Hatz, als glissandierendes Surren und Jaulen, als 'sprechendes' und gabber-quickes Breakbeat-Zang-Tumb-Tumb. Mit bläschenfeinem Prickeln und Mikrodetonationen im rau­schenden Beinahenichts. Mit dumpf in sich kreisender, von verzerrter Stimme zerkratzter Melodik, stehendem Feedback oder, wieder mit verzerrter Computerstimme, einem noch��mal rotierenden Mahlwerk. Und einem steppenden, wummernden Ausklang. [BA 123 rbd]

Auf Thisco ertönt derweil Luis Van Seixas als Sci Fi Industries aus St. Petersburg in Flo­rida mit den digitalen Alben „Inherent Red Vice“ und „Evidence is Futile“, neben Industrial Psyche-Punk von the pop ritual oder, illustriert mit dem Tierkreiszeichen 'Ziegenfisch'= Steinbock, dem gitarrenrituellen „Stellium“ von Taj Chander, beide aus Memphis, Tennes­see. Cerqueira seinerseits präsentiert als WHALTHISNEY sich als „Hypnothist“ (auf 23 Stab Wounds Rec.) und „Othist“ (auf Brutalize Rec.) und mit dumpfer Pianomelancholie zu Dröhn- und Zitterwellen Polymathism (Thisco, C-46) als weiteren Ismus neben etwa „Psi­thurism“ [Blätter, die im Wind rascheln], „Lefthism“, „Automathism“, „Quiethism“ oder „Concrethism“. Ein Polymath war einst ein Universalgelehrter, ein Homo universalis, dem Cerqueira auf der Dark Side der Moderne gegenübersteht als nur noch postmoderner Eklektiker, der zwischen Paradise Motel und Sweet Hellfire von den Beständen zehrt – Exotica, Discreet Music, Musique d'Ameublement, Mood Music. Mit Schwitters („Merzbau­ten“), Baudrillard („Simulacra“), Debord („Dérive“, „Musica Psychogeographica“), Virilio („This Dromocracy“), R.A. Wilson („Discordia“, „Musica Eristica“), Thierry Hentsch („Mpire of Desire“), Thomas Frank („Commodify Your Dissent“), W. G. Sebald ('After Nature') als Stichwortgebern. Mit verneinten und dennoch angeeigneten Begriffen – ThisContinuum, Thisillusion, Thisquietude, Endotica, Thisowned, Etopia, Thiscordiana, Thisruption, This­equilibrium... Die Sexploitation geschwärzt. Aus Dis- (miss-, nicht-, zer-, un-) wird This, aus Eskapismus wird Fluchthilfe aus den Ketten der „Buyology“ und der 'Tyranny of the Mo­ment' ins 'Edgeland', in die 'Peripheria', die Einsamkeit, Thisneys „Mondo Lostalgico“. Who walks alone in the streets at night? The sad, the mad, the bad. The lost, the lonely. The sleepless, the homeless. All the city��s internal exiles. The night has always been the time for daylight’s dispossessed – the dissident, the different. Hier mit einer Sammlung ver­streuter Hauntologismen, die als 'Atmosphera', 'Temporality', 'Lamento', 'Surrender', 'Darkspace', 'Summer Nightfall', 'Disengage' schon ihr Spätgeborensein, ihre Leeseitigkeit andeuten. Und ausgießen in klimpernder Tristesse, dröhnendem Moll und manchmal dazu raunenden Stimmen, kaskadierend platzenden Bläschen oder müdem Kontrabasspizzi­cato. Aber: 'You decide the end of the story'. [BA 123 rbd]

[edmilson1000]

#bomdia Bom dia, o amigo de verdade sempre está junto, ele jamais procura intriga, falando aos outros de um fato seu, ele só fala com você e tudo morre ali, pode se atrapalhar e falar com você, mas se erra te pede desculpas, se olhar com outros olhos você ver que até na conversa em má hora, ele se preocupa com você, que sabe o avisar da hora ____________________________________________ #goodmorning Good morning, a true friend is always together, he never seeks intrigue, telling others about a fact of yours, he only talks to you and everything dies there, he can get in the way and talk to you, but if he makes a mistake, he apologizes, if look with different eyes you see that even in the conversation at a bad time, he cares about you, who knows how to let you know the time ____________________________________________ #bonmatin Bonjour, un véritable ami est toujours ensemble, il ne cherche jamais l'intrigue, racontant aux autres un fait à vous, il ne parle qu'à vous et tout meurt là-bas, il peut se mettre en travers et vous parler, mais s'il fait une erreur , il s'excuse, si regarde avec des yeux différents tu vois que même dans la conversation au mauvais moment, il se soucie de toi, qui sait te faire savoir l'heure ____________________________________________ #buenosdias Buenos días, un verdadero amigo siempre está junto, nunca busca intrigas, contarle a los demás un hecho tuyo, solo habla contigo y ahí muere todo, puede meterse y hablarte, pero si se equivoca. , se disculpa, si miras con otros ojos ves que hasta en la conversacion en un mal momento, se preocupa por ti, que sabe avisarte la hora ____________________________________________ #buongiorno Buongiorno, un amico vero sta sempre insieme, non cerca mai intrighi, raccontando agli altri un tuo fatto, parla solo con te e lì muore tutto, può mettersi in mezzo e parlarti, ma se sbaglia , si scusa, se guarda con occhi diversi vedi che anche nella conversazione in un brutto momento, ci tiene a te, chissà come farti sapere l'ora #ดารา #ข่าว #บันเทิง #ข่าวบันเทิง #giornofelice #felicesettimana #buon2023 #buonasettimana #settimanabenedetta #instagram #happyday #foi #faith #fé #fe #saint-esprit #holyspirit (em Novo Horizonte, Salvador) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxZJvWrebS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jprogr]

Quick Mini overview

Mini is a constructed language created by S.C. Gruget. It has 1000 words and a simple but useful grammar. Mini’s sentences are structured in the subject, verb, object manner:

mi i manja a poma - I eat an apple.

Given that words can function like any other words (that is, a verb also works as noun, for example), Mini uses particles to mark the role of a word in a sentence:

i: introduces the verb.

a: introduces direct object & noun complement.

e: introduces adjective complement.

So:

mi i manja a manja - I eat food.

tu e rapi - You are fast.

It uses the letters a, b, d, e, f, g, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v. Pronunciation of consonants is the same as in English, vowels sound a bit more like in Spanish. Stress of a word always falls on the second to last syllable.

“a” as in map.

“e” as in level.

“i” as in meet.

“o” as in more.

“u” as in balloon.

“g” as gift.

Tense and verb aspect is unspecified, but if needed it is built in combination with the i particle and another word:

mi i de manja a oranje - I ate an orange.

mi i manja a oranje - I eat an orange.

mi i go manja a oranje - I will eat an orange.

mi i en manja a oranje - I am eating an orange.

mi i ave manja a oranje - I have eaten an orange.

mi i de ave manja a oranje - I had eaten an orange.

mi i go ave manja a oranje - I will have eaten an orange.

i manja a oranje! - Eat an orange!

go-i manja a oranje - To eat an orange.

mi i da manja a oranje - I would eat an orange.

mi i pasa manja a oranje - I used to eat oranges.

mi i debe manja a oranje - I should eat an orange.

en-i manja a oranje e bon - Eating oranges is good.

Di oranje e de-i manja de mi - This is orange is eaten by me.

For negation precede the word no to that which you need negated:

mi i de no manja a da oranje - I did not eat that orange.

For an adjective precede a noun with a word. For an adverb follow a verb with o and a word:

mi i manja o rapi a oranje poma - I eat quickly an orange apple (the apple has the colour orange).

Possessives are just pronouns and subjects used as adjectives:

tu i manja a mi poma - You eat my apple.

The conjunctions are an, u:

mi i manja a poma an oranje - I eat an apple and an orange.

mi i go manja a poma u oranje - I will eat an apple or an orange.

Dependent and subordinating clauses also have their own words to mark their role:

mi i pensa ke tu i debe manja a poma - I think that you should eat apples.

mi i manja a poma ka mi i kan - I eat apples because I can.

mi i manja a poma vile tu i manja a oranje - I eat an apple while you eat oranges.

Tamen mi i manja poma, mi i no favo a si - Although I eat apples, I don’t like them.

Simple yes or no questions just add a ?:

tu i manja a oranje? - Do you eat oranges?

Open questions use ke in a variety of ways:

tu i manja a ke? - What do you eat?

ke man i manja a oranje - Who eats oranges?

tu i manja e ke loke? - Where are you eating?

si i manja en ke tempo? - When is he eating?

tu i manja e ke rason? - Why do you eat?

mi i debe manja a ke mui? - How much should I eat?

si i manja e ke moda? - How does she eat?

Numbers work as adjectives and are composed from left to right:

nulo - 0.

uno - 1.

duo - 2.

san - 3.

fo - 4.

penta - 5.

sita - 6

seven - 7.

ba - 8.

nin - 9.

ten - 10.

ten nin poma - 19 apples.

sento - 100.

kilo - 1,000.

duo-ten-san-ranko - 23rd.

You can create new words by composing them:

di-dia - today.

dimenti-neso - forgiveness.

duo-ranko-go-fini - Second to last.

[hotaru987sensei]

Hiragana and Katakana Part. 2

I hope everything is comming along well with your studies! Are you guys ready for part 2, because I know I am!

So lets get started.

Now that we’ve got a handling on the sounds that are the foundation of being able to speak Japanese its time to expand on that a little bit. As some of you may have noticed the letters that would make up the sounds for

D, G, P, B, J, and Z are missing. Theres just one group of sounds for us to learn after this so lets not waste any more time!

First of all take a few seconds to look at the chart above and see which characters are and aren’t included. Also look and see whats different between these characters and how they normally look.

Are you back? What did you notice?

The first thing you should’ve seen is that not all of the characters are included. It’s only the characters from the H, S, K, and T groups. The second should be the symbols on top of these letters. It's these two symbols that give us our second variety of sounds.

Those symbols are called Dakuten and Handakuten.

Dakuten

This is the quotation looking symbol that you see over the letters. Of our special letters most of them use this with the exception of one. The term for little quotations being added is usually shortened to Tenten. So if someone says you’re missing a tenten in this sense they’re probably referring to the quotation like symbol on the character.

The ones that use this are our K, S, T, and H line. So for example:

1) か Ka with the the dakuten becomes が Ga. Same with eveything else in the line.

かKa ぎGIぐGu げGe ごGo

2) さSa gets changed to ざZa. There is an exception with is (shi)し. It instead gets changed to (Ji)じ.

ざZa じJi ずZu ぜZe ぞZo

3) (Ta)た goes to (Da)だ. There are two special ones in this row, which is (chi)ち and (tsu)つ.

Chi with the dakuten is hardly used(I could be wrong), but I’ve rarely if ever come across it in this form. I cant even think of any words that use this. If you do come across it then it would be read similar to how (ji)じ. When typing it in on a keyboard you would write it as Du

As for the second one there are two ways it could be spelled out when writing it in English: (zu) or (dzu). When learning it I personally like the (dzu) one because it sounds closer to how the letter should sound, but for spelling purposes it probably looks better with the (zu) reading. When typing it on a keyboard you’d write it as Du.

だTa *ぢJi/Di *づ Zu/Dzu/Du でDe どDo

4) The last one in this list is our good friend the ‘H’ family. Now unlike the other groups, the ‘H’ family is pretty big. Of course we have the one that adds the tenten. It changes our はHa to ばBa

ばBa びBi ぶBu べBe ぼBo

This also brings us to the second symbol that changes the sound.

2. Handakuten

Luckily this symbol is only attached to one group, and that’s our ‘H’ group. Which is pretty nice since we don’t have to remember too much lol. It’s already a lot to take in. So if you see a small little circle on the letter it changes ‘H’ to ‘P’.

For example:

ぱPa ぴPi ぷPu ぺPe ぽPo

For this one, similar to how the first one had a shortened form of tenten, in this case if you forgot to write the circle on the character people might start saying maru. Maru is the Japanese word for circle.

Of course, all of this can be translated to the katakana characters too.

カキクケコ　ガギグゲゴ

サシスセソ　ザジズぜぞ

タチツテト　ダヂヅデド

ハヒフヘホ　バビブベボ　パピプペポ

We still have one more set of character combinations to learn and then we can get into some sentence and basic grammar stuff! I know it’s taking a while but please bare with me lol. You can always send me asks for any sorts of questions if you’re doing self study ^^

Hiragana and Katakana part 1

Hiragana and Katakana part 3

[kitsunenonihongo]

Writing System

This is super important, before we begin with learning words and sentences.

Japanese has 3 writing systems so to speak. Two of them are syllabaries, you may refer to them as "Alphabets", and the third writing system is sort of symbol based, like Chinese.

There's also ROMAJI. Which we'll be using to help you learn sounds and to speak. But please, work on learning the syllabaries as soon as possible. Romaji is terrible for many reasons, including the fact that everyone and their mother writes Romaji in a different way. You may notice that my Romaji is different than some others you've come across. So again. Try to get away from it as soon as possible. Don't be afraid. I know you can do it!

We'll start with Kana, namely Hiragana as you'll be seeing it the most.

HIRAGANA

Hiragana is used mainly for native Japanese words. You will see Hiragana everywhere. So you'll be wanting to learn that first.

A:あ　I:い　U:う　E:え　O:お

Ka:か　Ki:き　Ku:く　Ke:け　Ko:こ

Sa:さ　Shi:し　Su:す　Se:せ　So:そ

Ta:た　Chi:ち　Tsu:つ　Te:て　To:と

Na:な　Ni:に　Nu:ぬ　Ne:ね　No:の

Ha:は　Hi:ひ　Fu:ふ　He:へ　Ho:ほ

Ma:ま　Mi:み　Mu:む　Me:め　Mo:も

Ya:や　Yu:ゆ　Yo:よ　*yes there are only 3 of these

Ra:ら　Ri:り　Ru:る　Re:れ　Ro:ろ

Wa:わ　Wo:を　*yes there's only 2 of these

N:ん

Okay, now some of these characters get whats called a "Dakuten" that's a little " or ゜that's next to the Hiragana that changes it's sound. those are as follows:

Ga:が　Gi:ぎ　Gu:ぐ　Ge:げ　Go:ご

Za:ざ　Ji：じ　Zu:ず　Ze:ぜ　Zo:ぞ

Da：だ　Zi:ぢ　Dzu:づ　De:で Do:ど

Ba:ば　Bi:び　Bu:ぶ　Be:べ　Bo:ぼ

Pa:ぱ　Pi:ぴ　Pu:ぷ　Pe:ぺ　Po:ぽ

ぱ　ぴ　ぷ　ぺ　ぽ are the only ones that use the ゜dakuten.

You'll notice that 「ぢ」sounds like "zi" ... or "dzi"... and not "di" and that 「づ」sounds like "dzu" and not "du" ... that's.... that's a pain in the butt but it is what it is. In order to get the "di" sound it's written 「でぃ」"de" and a little "i" makes "di" ... and actually you'll probably only ever see that written in Katakana 「ディ」

Which brings me to the next part. Little vowels and Little Y sounds.

We covered some of the little y sounds last lesson. You'll see more little Ys than little vowels. The biggest thing you need to remember about little Ys is that they're always stuck to an "-i" character.

Kya:きゃ　Kyu:きゅ　Kyo:きょ　Gya:ぎゃ　Gyu:ぎゅ　Gyo:ぎょ

Sha:しゃ　Shu:しゅ　Sho:しょ　Ja:じゃ　Ju:じゅ　Jo:じょ

Cha:ちゃ　Chu:ちゅ　Cho:ちょ

Nya:にゃ　Nyu:にゅ　Nyo:にょ

Hya:ひゃ　Hyu:ひゅ　Hyo:ひょ　Bya:びゃ　Byu:びゅ　Byo:びょ

Pya:ぴゃ　Pyu:ぴゅ　Pyo:ぴょ

Rya:りゃ　Ryu:りゅ　Ryo:りょ

You'll notice some of these don't have "y"s in the romaji reading. Don't freak. That's just how it works. And is part of the reason I don't like Romaji.

Like I said you'll also see little vowels: ぁ ぃ　ぅ　ぇ　ぉ but like with 「ディ」"di" you'll probably only ever see them in Katakana. Here's a few anyway:

Fa:ふぁ　Fi:ふぃ　Fe:ふぇ　Fo:ふぉ

She:しぇ Je:じぇ　Che:ちぇ　Ti:てぃ　Di:でぃ

Finally there's little "tsu" っ this little symbol DOUBLES the next consonant!

っか = kka っさ = ssa

etc. a っ can be near any other kana it doesn't really have a restriction besides not coming before あ, い, う, え, お, or ANY of the "N"s

If you come across a double n it will be written with the lone N first 「ん」 followed by one of the Ns with a vowel next to it.

Ex: Konnichiwa = こんにちは

Like English the double consonant doesn't change the sound, it just lengthens it by a fraction (if even that).

っき = "kki" pronounced the same as "ki" って= "tte" pronounced the same as "te"

Does that make sense? :)

KATAKANA (less explanation here because it's the same rules and sounds)

Katakana is used mainly for loan words. Words borrowed from other languages. It's also used in some names.

A:ア　I:イ　U:ウ　E:エ　O:オ

Ka:カ　Ki:キ　Ku:ク　Ke:ケ　Ko:コ

Sa:サ　Shi:シ　Su:ス　Se:セ　So:ソ

Ta:タ　Chi:チ　Tsu:ツ　Te:テ　To:ト

Na:ナ　Ni:ニ　Nu:ヌ　Ne:ネ　No:ノ

Ha:ハ　Hi:ヒ　Fu:フ　He:ヘ　Ho:ホ

Ma:マ　Mi:ミ　Mu:ム　Me:メ　Mo:モ

Ya:ヤ　Yu:ユ　Yo:ヨ

Ra:ラ　Ri:リ　Ru:ル　Re:レ　Ro:ロ

Wa:ワ　Wo:ヲ

N:ン

Ga:ガ　Gi:ギ　Gu:グ　Ge:ゲ　Go:ゴ

Za:ザ　Ji:ジ　Zu:ズ　Ze:ゼ　Zo:ゾ

Da:ダ　Dzi:ヂ　Dzu:ヅ　De:デ　Do:ド

Ba:バ　Bi:ビ　Bu:ブ　Be:ベ　Bo:ボ

Pa:パ　Pi:ピ　Pu:プ　Pe:ペ　Po:ポ

Kya:キャ　Kyu:キュ　Kyo:キョ　Gya:ギャ　Gyu:ギュ　Gyo:ギョ

Sha:シャ　Shu:シュ　Sho:ショ　Ja:ジャ　Ju:ジュ　Jo:ジョ

Cha:チャ　Chu:チュ　Cho:チョ

Nya:ニャ　Nyu:ニュ　Nyo:ニョ

Hya:ヒャ　Hyu:ヒュ　Hyo:ヒョ　Bya:ビャ　Byu:ビュ　Byo:ビョ

Pya:ピャ　Pyu:ピュ　Pyo:ピョ

Mya:ミャ　Myu:ミュ　Myo:ミョ

Rya:リャ　Ryu:リュ　Ryo:リョ

Ti:ティ　Di:ディ　She:シェ　Je:ジェ　Che:チェ

Va:ヴァ　Vi:ヴィ　Vu:ヴ　Ve:ヴェ　Vo:ヴォ

ッコ= kko ッソ= sso ッタ=tta ッシ=sshi

... there are probably other possibilities I've left out, but these are all the common ones you should see. and even if that's not true I trust that you can see and understand the pattern here. :)

KANJI There's thousands of Kanji, so I'm not going to list. I will have Kanji in with the lessons, but learn them at your own pace. No worries. :) I've found that once I got to the point where I could start learning Kanji it's made reading a lot easier for me.

Sorry if this is a HELLISH ammount. Just write the syllabaries down and come back to them now and then as reference. You don't have to learn them all today, or this week, or even this month. I just want you to be familiar with them. :)

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

Okay, so I’ve been tagged several times in this “favorite opera lines” thing going around, and even though I’ve already done 5 of my favorites, I will go ahead and do more because why not?

So in no particular order:

...Can I just do all of Tatyana’s letter scene? please? okay.

Schchastye bilo tak vozmozhno,

Tak blizko! Tak blizko!

Happiness was once possible,

so close! So close!

-Eugene Onegin, Act III

Už je večer,

smím odbednit okeničky.

Všude tma, všude tma,

jenom měsíček bědným

lidem září a plničko,

plničko, hvězd..

Night falls;

now I can open the blinds.

Everything is dark, everything is dark,

and the poor have only the moon

and a whole legion of stars...

-Jenufa, Act II

Selig sind die Liebenden.

Die der Liebe sind,

sind nicht des Todes.

Und auferstehen werden

die dahingesunken

sind um Liebe.

Blessed are those who love.

Those who love

are not of the dead.

And those who died

for love

shall rise again.

-Das Wunder der Heliane, Act I

Le malheur, ma fille, n'est pas d'être méprisée,

mais seulement de se mépriser soi-même.

The misfortune, my daughter, is not to be held in contempt,

but only to have contempt for yourself.

-Dialogues des Carmélites, Act III

Prends cette île

qu'il est toujours en mon pouvoir

de te donner!

Un flot azuré bat ses grèves,

elle est belle, plaisante,

et c'est l'île des rêves!

Take this island

which is still in my power

to give you!

An azure wave beats at its shores;

it is beautiful, pleasant,

and it is the island of dreams!

-Don Quichotte, Act V

C'est Thaïs, l'idole fragile qui vient

pour la dernière fois s'asseoir à la table fleurie.

Demain, je ne serai pour toi plus rien qu'un nom.

This is Thaïs, the fragile idol who comes for the last time to sit at your flowered table. Tomorrow, I will be nothing more to you than a name.

-Thaïs, Act I

Ist das noch der Diwan, - auf dem sich -

dein Vater - verblutet hat? -

Is this still the sofa- on which-

your father- bled to death?

-Lulu, Act II

L'error che v'imputai...

Io... stessa... avea commesso.

The crime of which I accused you...

I...I myself...committed with him.

-Don Carlo, Act IV

“Rivolto allor Gesù al popolo assembrato

mostrò l'adultera ch'era a suoi piedi e così disse...

‘Quegli di voi che non peccò,

la prima pietra scagli.’

E la donna... la donna

perdonata s'alzò.”

Perdonata... perdonata... perdonata!

Iddio lo pronunziò.

“Then Jesus turned to the assembled people,

indicating the adulteress who was at his feet, and spoke thus:

‘Those of you who have not sinned,

throw the first stone.’

And the woman...the woman,

forgiven, arose.”

Forgiven...forgiven...she is forgiven!

God has spoken it.

-Stiffelio, Act III

Écoutez! Ces martyrs de la foi sont en prière là...et du Seigneur ils chantent les louanges...

en attendant la mort!

Vous, dans ce triste lieu,

répondez comme si vous étiez devant Dieu!

Listen! These martyrs of the faith are praying there...and they sing the praises of the Lord...while awaiting death!

You, in this place of grief,

answer as if you were before God!

-Les Huguenots, Act V

È se accusarmi il mondo vuol

pur di qualche errore,

m'accusi di pietà,

non di rigore.

And if the world wants to accuse me

of some error,

let it accuse me of mercy,

not cruelty.

-La clemenza di Tito, Act II

Ein Traum hat mir den Traum Zerstört,

Ein Traum der bittren Wirklichkeit

Den Traum der Phantasie.

Die Toten schicken solche Träume,

Wenn wir zu viel mit

Und in ihnen leben.

Wie weit darf sie es,

Ohn' uns zu entwurzeln?

A dream has dashed my dream to earth,

a dream of crude reality has killed

the dream of fantasy.

The dead send us such dreams

when we spend too much life

with and in them.

How far can we go in grief

before disaster?

-Die tote Stadt, Act III

Che un dì rinasca, io spero,

dell'aurea età l'albore;

che degli umani in core

regni fraterno amor.

I hope that one day the dawn

of the Golden Age is reborn;

that brotherly love reigns

in the heart of humanity.

-Il viaggio a Reims, Act I

Gibt es einen, der nicht trivial ist?

Is there an ending that isn’t trivial?

-Capriccio, Final Scene

Tutto nel mondo è burla.

L'uom è nato burlone,

La fede in cor gli ciurla,

Gli ciurla la ragione.

Tutti gabbati! Irride

L'un l'altro ogni mortal.

Ma ride ben chi ride

La risata final.

Everything in the world is a joke.

Man is born a joker,

In his mind, his reason is

always wavering.

Everyone is fooled! Every

mortal taunts each other.

But he laughs well who

has the last laugh.

-Falstaff, Act III

Les métaux, ces fleurs souterraines

Aux impérissables couleurs,

Ne brillent qu'au front des reines,

Des rois, des papes, des grands-ducs,

et des empereurs.

Honneur aux maîtres ciseleurs!

Tra la la la,

Honneur aux maîtres ciseleurs!

Metals, those underground flowers

with never-fading colors,

only shine on the brows of queens,

of kings, of popes, of grand dukes,

and of emperors.

Honor to the master metalworkers!

Tra la la la...

Honor to the master metalworkers!

-Benvenuto Cellini, multiple appearances throughout the opera

Leicht kann des Frommen Herz auch wanken

Und überschreiten Recht und Pflicht,

Wenn Lieb' und Furcht der Tugend Schranken,

Verzweiflung alle Dämme bricht.

Ist's recht, auf einer Kugel Lauf

Zwei edler Herzen Glück zu setzen?

Und unterliegen sie den Netzen,

Womit sie Leidenschaft umflicht,

Wer höb' den ersten Stein wohl auf?

Wer griff' in seinen Busen nicht?

Even the pious heart can easily swerve

And step away from right and duty,

When love and fear of rightousness' limits

Despair breaks all bounds.

Is it right that two noble hearts' happiness depends on the course of one bullet?

And if they are defeated by the nets

in which passion entwines them,

Who is to raise the first stone?

Who does not look into his own heart?

-Der Freischütz, Act III

Adieu donc, vains objets qui nous charment sur terre !

Salut, premiers rayons de l'immortalité !

L'infini m'appelle et m'éclaire ;

Je meurs pour la justice et pour la liberté.

So farewell, useless things which charm us on earth!

Greetings, first light of immortality!

The infinite calls me and enlightens me;

I die for justice and for liberty.

-Hérodiade, Act IV

Liberté, redescends des cieux,

Et que ton règne recommence!

Liberty, come down again from the skies,

and may your reign begin anew!

-Guillaume Tell, Act IV

Écoute bien:

Là-bas au fond du cimetière,

il est deux grands tilleuls! c'est là que pour

toujours je voudrais reposer!...

Si cela

m'était refusé... si la terre

chrétienne est interdite au corps

d'un malheureux,

près du chemin

ou dans le vallon solitaire

allez placer ma tombe!

En détournant les yeux

le prêtre passera...

Mais, à la dérobée,

quelque femme viendra visiter le banni...

et d'une douce larme, en son ombre tombée

le mort, le pauvre mort... se sentira béni...

Listen well!

Down there, at the back of the cemetery,

there are two great linden trees! It is there I wish to rest forever!...

If this is refused me...

if Christian ground is forbidden to the corpse

of a wretched man,

go place my grave

near the road

or in the lonely valley!

While turning his eyes away

the pastor will pass by...

but if, in secret,

some woman will come visit the banished man...

and with a gentle tear having fallen on his spirit...

the dead man, the poor dead man...will feel blessed...

-Werther, Act IV

Tu vois bien que je parle la sienne

quand je l'embrasse ainsi...

You well see that I speak the same [language as her]

when I embrace her like this...

-Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Act II

Pourquoi, les maîtres?

Parce qu'ils t'on fait naître, se croient-ils le droit

d'emprisonner ta jeunesse adorable?

Why are they the masters?

Because they gave birth to you, they believe they have the right

to lock away your adorable youth?

-Louise, Act II

[jgthirlwell]

2020 Year In Review

This year once again I invited some friends and colleagues to reflect on 2020

JG Thirlwell

Composer

Foetus Xordox Manorexia Steroid Maximus Venture Bros Archer

www.foetus.org

2020 was a troubling and disturbing year. I created a lot of music and experienced a lot of nights waking at 5am in a panic. I deeply missed the sacred experience of being able to see live music. In its absence of that I listened to a lot of music. It was difficult to whittle down this list but here are a lot of albums I enjoyed in 2020, in no particular order.

Le Grand Sbam Furvent (Dur Et Doux) John Elmquist’s HardArt Group I Own an Ion (900 Nurses) Roly Porter Kistvaen (Subtext) Liturgy Origin Of The Alimonies (YLYLCYN) Clark Kiri Variations (Throttle) Dai Kaht Dai Kaht I & II (Soleil Zeuhl) Chromb Le livre des merveilles (Dur Et Doux) Horse Lords The Common Task (Northern Spy) Ecker & Meultzer Carbon (Subtext) Insane Warrior Tendrils (RJ’s Electrical Connections) Jeff Parker Suite For Max Brown (International Anthem) Jacob Kirkegaard Opus Mors (Topos) Tristan Perich Drift Multiply (Nonesuch) Bec Plexus Sticklip (New Amsterdam) Vak Budo (Soleil Zeuhl) Merlin Nova BOO! (Bandcamp) The The Muscle OST (Cineola) Zombi 2020 (Relapse) Regis Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss (Downwards) Rival Consoles Articulation (Erased Tapes) Sarah Davachi Cantus, Descant (L.A.T.E.) Sufjan Stevens The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty) Idles Ultra Mono (Partisan) Daedelus The Bittereindeers (Brainfeeder) Boris No (Bandcamp) Aksak Maboul Figures / Un peu de l’ame des bandits / Onze Danses Pour Cobattre La Migraine (Crammed) Noveller Arrow (Ba Da Bing) Felicia Atkinson Everything Evaporate (Shelter Press) Ital Tek Dream Boundary (Planet Mu) Author and Punisher Beastland (Relapse) Sparks A Steady Drip Drip Drip (BMG) Corima Amatarasu (Soleil Zeuhl) Code Orange Underneath (Roadrunner) Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists /Silly Symphonies / To Be Surrounded../ Love Lore(Joyful Noise) Sote Moscels (Opal Tapes) Run The Jewels RTJ4 (Jewel Runners) Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi (Nuclear Blast) Master Boot Record Floppy Disk Overdrive (Metal Blade) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Mosaic Of Transformation (Ghostly International) / Ears (Western Vinyl) Michael Gordon Acquanetta (Cantelope) Neom Arkana Temporis (Soleil Zeuhl) Rian Treanor Ataxia / File Under UK Metaplasm (Planet Mu) Helm Saturnalia (Alter) Ivvvo doG (Halcyon Veil) Robert Normandeau Figures (Empreintes Digitales) Ben Vida Reducing The Tempo To Zero (Shelter Press) Beatrice Dillon Workaround (Pan) Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar (Domino) Sea Oleena Weaving A Basket (Higher Plain Music) Elysian Fields Transience Of Life (Ojet) Rhapsody Symphony Of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret (Magic Circle) Duma Duma (Nyege Nyege) Ulla Strauss Tumbling Towards a Wall / Seed (Bandcamp)

Honorable mentions Carl Stone Stolen Car (Unseen Worlds)  Nazar Guerilla (Hyperdub) Iwo Zaluski with the Children of Park Lane Primary School, Wembley The Remarkable Earth Making Machine (Trunk) Nahash Flowers Of The Revolution (SVBKVLT) Cindy Lee Whats Tonight To Eternity (Bandcamp) Insect Ark The Vanishing (Profound Lore) 33EMYBW Arthropods (SVBKVLT) Declan McKenna Zeroes (Tomplicated) Layma Azur Zeii (Bandcamp)

FILM TV Succession ZeroZeroZero Escape at Dannemora 1917 Small Axe : Five films by Steve McQueen Pirhanas Monos The Hater Better Call Saul

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Drew Daniel

Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth

an alphabet of 2020 recordings

Arca “KiCk i” BFTT “Intrusive / Obtrusive” clipping. “Visions of Bodies Being Burned” Duma “Duma” Eilbacher, Max “Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)” Forbidden Colors “La Yeguada” GILA “Energy Demonstration” HiedraH Club de Baile “Bichote-K Bailable Vol. 2” Ian Power “Maintenance Hums” Jeff Carey “Index[off]” Kassel Jaeger “Meith” Laurie Anderson “Songs From the Bardo” Mukqs “Water Levels” Negativland “The World Will Decide” O’Rourke, Jim “Shutting Down Here” Perlesvaus “These Things Below with Those Above” Quicksails “Blue Rise” Rian Treanor “File Under UK Metaplasm” Slikback “///” Terminal Nation “Holocene Extinction” Ulcerate “Stare Into Death and Be Still” Various Artists “HAUS of ALTR” William Tyler “New Vanitas” Xyla “Ways” Y A S H A “Summations” :zoviet-france: “Châsse 2ᵉ”

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Sarah Lipstate  (Noveller)

With all live performances canceled, this was truly the year of demo videos and home studio recording for me. These are 10 pieces of gear that came out in 2020 that helped keep me feeling creative and inspired during lockdown. In no particular order:

EHX Oceans 12 Dual Stereo Reverb - The Oceans 12 ticks all the boxes for what I’m looking for in a great soundscaping reverb. I used the Shimmer and Reverse algorithms in conjunction a lot when I was composing music for a film score.

Chase Bliss Audio Blooper - While I don’t actually own a Blooper, I had the pleasure of borrowing one from Mike of Baranik Guitars after NAMM this year. He made an incredible Blooper-inspired guitar and I was completely charmed by them both. Chase Bliss always delivers pedals that push me creatively and the Blooper truly hits the mark.

Cooper FX Arcades - I love everything Cooper FX has released to-date so the opportunity to access those sounds in one pedal via plug-in cartridges is just awesome.

SolidGoldFX NU-33 - I was asked to do a demo of this pedal for its release and ended up being really charmed by this box’s approach to lo-fi nostalgia. I’ve used it a lot for film scoring and highly recommend adding it to your collection.

Demedash Effects T-120 DLX V2 - I LOVE a good tape echo and the T-120 Deluxe V2 ranks up there with the best I’ve tried. This pedal made its way to me this Christmas and I look forward to making some beautiful sounds with it in the new year.

Hologram Electronics Microcosm - The Microcosm is one of those pedals where you should fully read the manual before diving in but once you put in that initial effort you’ve got a massively powerful tool on your hands. It does glitch like no other. Definitely worth the homework

Azzam Bells MP019 - I discovered this unique instrument through a post on Reverb’s IG page and immediately looked it up and ordered one. These experimental percussion instruments are hand-made in Italy and they’re as beautiful visually as they are sonically. I used it for bowed cymbal and daxophone sounds on a film score and it was absolutely haunting.

Echopark Dual Harmonic Boost 2 - I love the control you have over dialing in the perfect amount of grit with these dual boost circuits. I use it a lot as a textural tool when I’m laying down drones or bringing in big distorted swells. It’s one of the most versatile overdrives in my collection and I love that.

Fender Parallel Universe Series Volume II Maverick Dorado - I was smitten with the Maverick Dorado when I first saw it at NAMM. It has a lot of the specs that I look for in a guitar and the body shape with the Mystic Pine finish just blew me away. I hope that I get to use it live soon.

Polyeffects Beebo - The Beebo is one of those pedals that I genuinely feel is smarter than I am. It’s like an entire computer in one small touchscreen box. I can’t claim to have mastered using it yet but the sounds that I have managed to get out of it so far have been brilliant. I’m looking forward to spending more time with this box in 2021

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HELM 2020 REVIEW

Let's get the bad stuff out the way first, 2020 was undoubtedly an awful year. I'm still not sure how to really respond to seeing a global pandemic bring the capital to its knees and everything I love and hold dear to a grinding halt. Our government fucked it's response, putting profit before people and killing tens of thousands. The Labour Party descended into farce with the newly elected leader Sir Keith revealing himself as a bland centrist with no opposition or ideas. On a personal level it sucked not being able to travel or see my friends in different parts of the world - or even the same country - who I am starting to miss a lot. However, I was fortunate enough to get through the year with my sanity intact. Music, art and culture once again being my main positive. I think I listened to more music than I have in any year ever. I read more books than I have done since I was a teenager probably. I also re-discovered the joys of walking long distances and am extremely thankful for living near a lot of incredible green spaces: Epping Forest, Walthamstow Wetlands, Walthamstow Marshes, Wanstead Park, Wanstead Flats...

Music. My favourite albums of the year.

Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi Wetware - Flail Raspberry Bulbs - Before The Age Of Mirrors Necrot - Mortal Rope Sect - The Great Flood Private World - Aleph Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Pyrrhon - Abcess Time CS+Kreme - Snoopy Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry Drew McDowall - Agalma Regis - Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss Nazar - Guerilla Zoviet France - Russian Heterodoxical Songs (and all the ZF reissues!!) Triple Negative - God Bless the Death Drive Permission - Organised People Suffer Actress - Karma & Desire Acolytes - Stress II The Gerogerigegege - >(decrescendo) Chubby & The Gang - Speed Kills Flora Yin-Wong - Holy Palm Eiko Ishibashi - Hyakki Yagyo The The - See Without Being Seen Prurient - Casablanca Flamethrower Henning Christiansen - L’essere Umano Errabando La Voce Errabando Subdued - Over The Hills And Far Away Rian Treanor - File Under UK Metaplasm Komare - The Sense Of Hearing Shredded Nerve - Acts Of Betrayal Jesu - Terminus Autechre - SIGN Hey Colossus - Dances / Curses Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced Mark Harwood - A Perfect Punctual Paradise Under My Own Name Still House Plants - Fast Edit The Bug & Dis Fig - In Blue Kommand - Terrorscape Haus Arafna - Asche Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum Worm - Gloomlord Kraus - A Golden Brain Faceless Burial - Speciation

A shout-out to Jon Abby's AMPLIFY series on Bandcamp / Facebook, which I contributed a new piece of music to.

A shout out to the labels where most of the music I listened to seemed to come from:

The Trilogy Tapes Iron Bonehead Penultimate Press Dais La Vida Es Un Mus

Gigs. Despite live music being destroyed in 2020 I still saw a few unforgettable performances at the beginning of the year.

Graham Lambkin @ The ICA, London Puce Mary / JFK @ The Glove That Fits, London Demilich @ Finnfest, The Garage, London Container / PC World / National Unrest @ Venue MOT, London S.H.I.T / Asid / Chubby & The Gang @ Static Shock Festival, ExFed, London

Books I enjoyed. Most not published this year, but all read in 2020.

Joe Kennedy - Authentocrats David Balzer - Curationism Tom Mills - BBC: The Myth Of A Public Service Simon Morris - Consumer Guide: Special Edition Luke Turner - Out Of The Woods Various - Bad News For Labour Mike Wendling - Alt-Right Baited Area issues 1 & 2.

Film. Three good films I saw this year which I hadn't before.

Suspiria (Remake) Midsommar Cannibal Holocaust

Podcasts. I listened to a lot of these whilst walking.

We Don't Talk About The Weather Novara Media Tysky Sour & Novara FM Grounded with Louis Theroux System of Systems Red Scare loveline episodes Suite 212 NOISEXTRA Social Discipline CONTAIN

TV.

Didn't watch a huge amount and what I did was mostly trash. For some reason I rewatched both series' of This Life, a British drama from the late 90's about a group of young professionals house sharing and navigating their careers. Very cringey and has aged terribly, but it was perversely fascinating to revisit something from that time in the age of the pandemic. Following on from this I binge watched the entire series of Industry which was entertaining enough. A programme about a bunch of horny bankers with what felt like a confused ideology behind it. It seemed stuck between trying to criticise and glorify the culture around the industry, but also protect the industry itself from outside criticism by portraying anyone who may oppose as an insufferable wanker. Currently halfway through Succession which is OK. The Murdoch documentaries on the BBC were excellent and a rare respite from their descent into client journalism.

Thanks to anyone who listened to my music this year also. Best wishes to you all for 2021.

Luke Younger

http://hhelmm.com | http://alter.bandcamp.com

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Elliott Sharp

composer

1. My Nr. 1 lesson: patience. Whether it's bouncing through 30 seconds of severe turbulence at 39000 feet or slogging through 30 minutes of a interminable piece of concert music, one attribute I've tried to develop is the ability to see past the discrete and awaited ending, the exact framing of the immediate process, but put it into the context of a larger time frame. I've found that this year more than all others has demanded it. Breathing helps...

2. Books: revisiting old favorites from the realm of Thomas Pynchon and Philip K. Dick (both especially relevant), digging into John Lomax's portrait of Jelly Roll Morton, the works of Colson Whitehead, random things off of the shelf…

3. Composing: with touring off the table, I focused on that which needed to be written, some requested and commissioned, some spontaneously springing forth. Composing requires that one open the windows wide to the world, which at this moment brought in grief, terror, uncertainty, anxiety, visions of plague and pestilence and incipient fascism. Okay, now shut the window and get to work! How to process, translate, transform? The work can be a comfortable and obsessive cocoon once one learns to handle the radioactive materials and put them into the creativity reactor.

4. Beans! We have long been a fan in our house of the wide world of legumes but this year brought two stars to the front: the black bean and the red lentil. The black bean commands the lofty peaks but the seemingly infinite variations of dal surround it. Ginger, garlic, turmeric, smoked paprika, cayenne, onions, and olive oil form the basis then imagination builds.

5. Online teaching substituted for my canceled conduction of workshops in the Pyrenees Mountains of France. Between the participants and myself, we built a temporary but very congenial space online to share concepts and music. In addition, private lessons brought conversation and music with new friends in Germany, Italy, California, Australia, Illinois, Denmark, Pennsylvania, Spain, Florida, Brazil.

6. What started out as "stress baking" (before I even had heard of the term) soon became a frequent practice that yielded very edible results. The twins preferred the sweeter forays into banana bread and chocolate cake. I tried to find a balance between tried-and-true techniques and experiments in texture and taste with yeasted pumpernickels, multi-grains, and seed breads.

7. While not the same as performing 'live ', online gigs proved that it was possible to generate a surprising amount of adrenaline even without the pheromonal handshaking of a room filled with receptive ears. As a corollary, online recording collaborations with friends worldwide proved to be inspiring and a suitable substrate for sonic experimentation, exploration of new instruments, tunings, effects programming, structures. In these realms, shout-outs to Helene Breschand, Mike Cooper, Henry Kaiser, Tracie Morris, Mikel Banks, Dougie Bowne, Payton McDonald, Billy Martin, Colin Stetson, Jim O'Rourke, Scott Amendola, Roberto Zorzi, Jason Hoopes, Eric Mingus, Melanie Dyer, Dave Hofstra, Don McKenzie, Sergio Sorrentino, Veniero Rizzardi, Taylor Ho Bynum, Scott Fields, Bachir Attar, Karl Bruckmaier, Robbie Lee, Matthew Evan Taylor, Matteo Liberatore, Al Kaatz, David Barratt, Jessica Hallock, Kolin Zeinikov, Robbie Lee, Jeremy Nesse, James Ilgenfritz, Sergio Armaroli, Steve Piccolo, Sandy Ewen, David Weinstein, Jim Whittemore, Chris Vine, Werner Puntigam, William Schimmel.

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Daniel O’Sullivan

(Grumbling Fur, Guapo, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Ulver, Sunn O))), Æthenor, Laniakea, Miracle, Mothlite, and This Is Not This Heat.)

Music Richard Youngs - Ein Klein Nein Alabaster DePlume - Instrumentals Hildegard von Bingen - O Nobilissima Viriditas Francisco de Penalosa - Missa Ave Maria Peregrina Carlo Gesualdo - Responsoria 1611 Dirty Projectors - Five EPs Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal Brother Peter Broderick - Blackberry Richard Horowitz - Eros Of Arabia Duncan Trussell Family Hour Cocteau Twins in the bath

Books/comics Alexander Tucker - Entity Reunion II Derek Jarman - Chroma Stephen Harrod Buhner - Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm The Penguin Book Of Irish Poetry - edited by Patrick Crotty The Gospel Of Ramakrishna - translated by Swami Nikhilananda Lucretius - De Rerum Natura Plotinus - Enneads Ram Dass - Grist For The Mill Lisa Brown - Phantom Twin

Other Fasting / meditation / macrodosing Walks in freshly coppiced woodland (for the smell mainly). Plants / Foraging / Growing Traditional ferments Douglas Sirk movies Mandolorian Writing songs on the piano Rediscovery of Kenneth Graham via my kids

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Karl O’Connor (Regis)

01.Wolfgang Press - Unremembered, Remembered 02. Klara Lewis - Ingrid Live at Fylkingen 03. Jesu - Terminus 04. Dave Ball - Leeds Poly Demos 1979 05. Edwin Pouncey - Rated Sav X (the Savage Pencil Skratchbook) 06. The Bug - In Blue 07. New Order - Power,Corruption and Lies ( Writing Sessions  ) 08. JG Thirlwell and Simon Steensland - Oscillospira 09. FM Einheit and Andreas Ammer - Hammerschlag 10. Thurston Moore - By The Fire 11. Body Stuff - Body Stuff 3 12. Ann M Hogan - Honeysuckle Burials 13. Rob Halford - Confess (Autobiography)

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Caleb Braaten (Sacred Bones Records)

Shirley Collins Hearts Ease Dehd Flowers Of Devotion Duma Duma Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways Green-House Six Songs for Invisible Gardens John Jeffery Passage Drew McDowall Agalma Sweeping Promises Hunger For a Way Out Colter Wall Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs Woods Strange to Explain

My Favorite 90’s Nostalgia Movie Rewatches

Colors Ghost Dog Menace II Society The Player Rounders Safe Starship Troopers Trees Lounge Vampires Waiting For Guffman

Most Culturally Bankrupt Year : 1997

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Charlie Looker

(composer, Psalm Zero, Extra Life, Seaven Teares)

Ten Things That Didn’t Happen in 2020

1.  I didn’t write a ton of new music. Don’t get me wrong, I wrote some. I always do. But mostly I focused on my new YouTube channel, essays, and on getting old recordings released. I haven’t even been working a day-job so I thought I was going to write my next Ring Cycle, but I really didn’t find Covid inspiring.

2.  Trump wasn’t re-elected. Cool.

3. I didn’t lose anyone to Covid. I am, of course, profoundly grateful for this. But I feel pretty embarrassed remembering group-texting ten friends in March, “We are all going to see a loved one die. Every single one of us. Don’t kid yourselves”. I can get hysterical, and that was somewhat irresponsible of me.

4.  No revolution happened. I don’t mean to be smug or cynical, or to belittle anyone’s participation in the protests. But, as far as I can tell, nothing happened in 2020 that promises to reduce police brutality or human suffering of any kind. We’ll see. That burning Minneapolis police station was exciting to watch at the time, if only on an aesthetic level.

5.  I have a stack of unread books I bought this year, just staring at me, with nary a crease among them. These include:

Adorno and Horkheimer, The Dialectic of Enlightenment (looks amazing, but I haven’t touched it) Marx, Grundrisse (it’s 1000 pages for fuck’s sake. Amazon also accidentally sent me two copies, and its double presence in the stack is just comical) Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit (the first 15 pages blew my mind, then my mind blew it off)

6.  I didn’t settle into living in LA. I moved here six months before Covid and I was just starting to cultivate some friendships and play shows. This was quashed and I still feel like I still live in New York. I still barely know the layout of the city here.

7.  No brand-new buzzy musical artists burst onto the scene, that I can recall. No new hyped micro-genre of the moment. There was just no way for there to be a hot new trend. I’d say that was refreshing, but it wasn’t.

8.  Tyson’s return was not awesome. Two minute rounds, ended in a draw. I’ve been getting way into boxing this past year. This fight was a bummer. I’m looking forward to Mayweather vs Logan Paul (LOL) because we know it’s comedy ahead of time.

9.  For three weeks in July, I didn’t do a single thing other than watch street fight compilations on YouTube and Worldstar. That’s just grim.

10.  There were no school shootings in March. Apparently, this was the first March with no school shootings since 2002. Not a single 7th grader got a hand job in March either. I cannot begin to imagine what it’s like to be a kid now.

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Chuck Bettis

https://chuckbettis.com

Other People's Music released this year:

Coil "Musick to Play in the Dark" (Dais)

Duma "s/t" (Nyege Nyege Tapes) Twig Harper "External Boundless Prison/ in 4 parts EP" (self-release) I.P.Y. (Ikue Mori, Phew, YoshimiO) "I.P.Y." (Tzadik) Kill Alters "A2B2 Live Stream 11/13/2020" (self-release) Krallice "Mass Cathexis" (self-release) Lust$ickPuppy "Cosmic Brownie" (self-release) Doug McKechnie "San Francisco Moog: 1968-72" (VG+ Records) Merlin Nova "Boo!" (self-release) Omrb "Milandthriust, The Graths of Mersh" (self-release) Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda "gi n ga" (self-release) Yoth Iria "Under His Sway" (Repulsive Echo) Wetware "Flail" (Dais)

My own music released this year:

collaborations

Chatter Blip "Microcosmopolitan" (Contour Editions) Matmos "The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form" (Thrill Jockey) Reverse Bullets  "Dreampop Dsyphoria" (self-release) Snake Union "live at Roulette" (self-release) Snake Union w/ Hisham Bharoocha, Bonnie Jones, Heejin Jang, Matthew Regula "Three Arrows" (Rat Route) Thomas Dimuzio "Balance" (Gench Music) YoshimiO & Chuck Bettis  "Live at the Stone" (Living Myth)

solo Chuck Bettis "Arc of Enlghtenment"  (Living Myth) Chuck Bettis "Motion Parallax"  (Living Myth)

compilation Various Artist "Polished Turds Vol.1" (Granpa)

Music Books read this year

"Intermediary Spaces" by Eliane Radigue/Julia Eckhardt (Umland) "Ennio Morricone In His Own Words" by Ennio Morricone/Alessandro De Rosa (Oxford University Press) "Free Jazz In Japan: A Personal History" by Soejima Teruto (Public Bath Press) "Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus" by Kato David Hopkins (Public Bath Press)

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Maya Hardinge

(musician / artist)

list of things i liked this year

first ever solo road trip through new mexico and Texas right before lockdown experiencing manhattan with no cars on the road . having a car to escape in to nature. (which i craved so much) walks and bike rides with friends… FRIENDS! The web site ‘workaway’ that helped me feel that there were options for escape. playing games weekly on zoom during lock down teaching yoga weekly on zoom. Witnessing and being part of the BLM protests. witnessing and being part of the demise of T sitting on my couch at 6am drinking a cup of tea, appreciating my apt. making time to meditate. halloween without tourists .

some music I’ve bought and/or enjoyed this year Elvis Perkins-Black Coat Daughter Patricia Kokett -Soi soi Henning Christiansen - OP201 Bryce Hackford- Safe Svitlana Nianio and Oleksander - Snayesh yak? rozkazhy Brannten schnure - Sommer im Pfirsichhain Killing Joke - Nighttime David Shea - Tower of mirrors Shakey - Shakey Woodford halse tapes Coil - Musick to play in the dark

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BJ Nilsen

sound artist / composer

Work 2020

Despite Covid 19 lots of things actually did happen.

In Feburary I visited the only active nuclear plant in The Nederlands as part of my "Expanded Field Recording” project together with SML. In March revisited the Acousmonium at the Elevate Festival in Graz with an additional trip deep inside the Schlossberg recording old mining trains. In March and April I did two daily recording projects “Pending and Auditory Scenes” - both of Amsterdam during lockdown. In May did my first Zoom field recording workshop with the CAMP project. In June & July  two research trips in Waldviertel, Austria with Franz Pomassl. In August recorded bells and organs in 10 different churches around Amsterdam for Jacob Lekkerkerker. In September recorded Kali Malone at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam. Performed at Heart of Noise Festival in Innsbruck and A4 in Bratislava. Also went ice-skating for first time in 20? Years. In November and December I travelled to Jeju island to record field recordings for a project by Femke Herregraven for the Gwangju Biennale, commissioned for 2021. Did lots of gardening, released two tapes “Call it Philips, Eindoven” and “Zomer 2020” with Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. NOW! Looking forward to 2021.

http://bjnilsen.info https://soundcloud.com/bjnilsen/sets/auditory-scenes-amsterdam

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Vicki Bennett

(People Like Us)

Negativland - True False https://negativland.com/products/truefalse-cd (this came out last year but is so THIS year) Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways https://www.bobdylan.com/albums/rough-and-rowdy-ways/ The Soft Pink Truth - We from Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/shall-we-go-on-sinning-so-that-grace-may-increase Carl Stone - Stolen Car https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/stolen-car Porest - Sedimental Gurney https://porest.bandcamp.com/album/sedimental-gurney Matmos - The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/the-consuming-flame-open-exercises-in-group-form Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/atn044-domenique-dumont-miniatures-de-auto-rhythm The The - See Without Being Seen https://www.thethe.com/product/see-without-being-seen-cd/ Ciggy de la Noche - Hold Tight HMRC https://soundcloud.com/ciggydelanoche/hold-tight-hmrc Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams http://www.neilcic.com/mouthdreams/

and my details: http://peoplelikeus.org/ https://peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com/ pic: http://peoplelikeus.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Welcome-Abroad-promo3-2-scaled.jpg

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DJ Food

Music - Type 303 - Sticky Disco / Analogue Acidbath 7" (45 Live) The British Space Group - The Ley of the Land CD (Wyrd Britain) Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello LP / Warp 10 NTS mix (Warp) dgoHn - Undesignated Proximate (Modern Love) LF58 - Alterazione LP (Astral Industries) Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments series (DGM) Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (BMG) Simf Onyx - Magenta Skyline / The Unresolved 7" (Delights) Luke Vibert - Modern Rave LP (Hypercolour) JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Oscillospira (Ipecac) Aural Design - Looking & Seeing 7" / DL (Russian Library) Luke Vibert - Rave Hop (Hypercolour) Clipping. with Christopher Fleeger - Double Live (Sub Pop) APAT - Terry Riley's 'In C' performed on Modular Synthesizer (YouTube) Field Lines Cartographer - The Spectral Isle LP (Castles In Space) Jane Weaver - The Revolution of Super Visions single (Fire Records) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G. LP (Flightless) Humanoid - Hed-Set - forthcoming on (De:tuned)

Film / TV - Inside No.9 (BBC) What We Do In The Shadows Season 2 (Netflix) Tales From The Loop (Amazon) Keith Haring - Street Art Boy (BBC) John Was Trying To Contact Aliens (Netflix) The Social Dilemma (Netflix) The Mandalorian (Season 2) (Disney+) Long Hot Summers - The Style Council documentary (Sky Arts) Zappa (Alex Winter)

Books / Comics / Magazines Confessions of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell (Profile books) The Often Wrong - Farel Dalrymple (Image Comics) Edwin Pouncey - Rated SavX (Strange Attractor Press) Jeffrey Lewis - Fuff (all issues - really late to the party on this one) Rian Hughes - XX - A Novel, Graphic (Picador) Cosey Fanni Tutti - Art, Sex, Music (Faber) Caza - Kris Kool (Passenger Press) Dan Lish - Egostrip Vol.1 Electronic Sound magazine Decorum - Jonathan Hickman & Mike Huddleston (Image) John Higgs - Stranger Than We Can Imagine Simon Halfon - Cover To Cover (Nemperor)

Very few exhibitions or shows this year for obvious reasons

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[faedawayyy]

50 QUESTIONS WITH DELILAH CALLOWAY! //trying to do the ones that need development the most! 

THINGS YOU’RE NEVER ASKED

which song went to number 1 on your birthday? (find out here) "that song that goes, i’m blue da ba de, da ba di...ha!”

if you could turn any scent into a candle, what would it be? “petrol. that’s probably dangerous, though.” 

which element best suits you: fire, earth, water or air? “i’d like to think earth.” 

what’s the worst grade you’ve ever got on a test? “a C. i was that kid.” 

what’s the best grade you’ve ever got on a test? “an A+” 

how many countries have you travelled to? “quite a few, me and my mum travelled together on the summer between my fifteenth and sixteenth birthday around europe and it was really nice.”

who is your favourite disney character? “cinderella!”

what is one thing people believe that you don’t? “i don’t believe that everything happens for a reason. i think that life can be really cruel and as people, we’ve just learnt to adapt...making us think that there was a reason behind it, but we’re actually just forced to be incredibly strong.”

do you usually drink enough water in a day? “probably not.” 

what’s your middle name? “rose.” 

PARENTS

do you know both of your parents? “yes” 

are they together? “no, they separated before i was born.” 

are you adopted? “i’m not.” 

what’s your favourite memory with your parent(s)? “i think with my mum, it’s definitely been building our life together. she moved away from the rest of her family wen she became pregnant and as i grew up, she was going through her mid to late thirties and it was just great seeing her build our life around us.” 

what did your parent(s) study when they were at the academy? “she studied acting and is really successful. my dad actually never went to an academy, he was a juniour accountant for my grandfather and that’s actually how they met.” 

which project of your parent(s) is your favourite? “cinderella.” 

which parent is the strictest? “i only see my dad once or twice a month, but even if they were together, it’d still be mum.” 

which parent do you look most like physically? “my dad.” 

which parent do you behave the most like? “my mum.” 

are you close? “to my mum, yeah.” 

THIS OR THAT

the titanic or the notebook? “the ultimate question - titanic.” 

dc or marvel? “i prefer marvel.” 

disney or pixar? “disney.” 

pink or green? “pink.”

summer or winter? “summer.” 

spring or autumn? “autumn.” 

dogs or cats? “cats, i think.” 

rom-coms or horrors/thrillers? “rom-coms.” 

nights in or nights out? “nights in.” 

early riser or night owl? “a night owl! i went through this stage a few years ago where i’d stay on the internet until 2, 3 or even 4 in the morning. good times.” 

GETTING PERSONAL

what age did you have your first kiss? “i was nineteen.” 

have you lost your virginity? how old were you? “virginity isn’t a thing, but it was quite recently. i was twenty-one.” 

what’s your biggest regret? “probably having sex, honestly! there was nothing bad about it but i spent so much time worrying about not being left behind that i rushed it and just wanted it out of the way.” 

which song most reflects your life so far? “rare! by gisele collins.” 

what’s your biggest fear in life? “not accomplishing everything that i want to. dying and instantly being forgotten.” 

do you want to get married? “i don’t know.” 

do you want children? “no.”

what is a cause you feel strongly about? “stopping child marriage, that shit still happens and it’s disgusting.”

what’s your sexuality? “i’m bisexual, i think.” 

when in life did you feel the loneliest? “i’ve never really felt lonely! i’m lucky in that sense. i guess i’ve felt misunderstood but even when things have got terrible, i’ve always had my mum and i’m so grateful for that.” 

10 TRUTHS

have you ever skinny-dipped? “i haven’t.” 

ever had inappropriate thoughts about somebody you shouldn’t? “i don’t think so.” 

what’s the worst thing you’ve said behind somebody’s back? “ugh, something really bitchy in high school probably. i don’t know what it was but i’m sure i did, i’m sorry.” 

have you ever sent a sexual text? “yes.” 

is there anything you dislike for no apparent reason? “i don’t think so? i hate fish but that’s because it tastes bad and is bad for the planet.” 

what’s the most recent lie you’ve ever told? “i’ve told a few in this interview. shhh.” 

can you put your hand on your heart and say you’ve never complimented a project you didn’t really like? “i’m really bad at complimenting projects in general! i forget to come on to social media but no, everything i comment on, i’m genuine.” 

the best advice you’ve ever been given? “people are either in your life for a reason or a season and neither one is bad.” 

a quote you try to live by? “that same one.” 

where do you want to be in ten years? “i don’t know! hopefully with a successful fashion line? i’d like to be living in california too, i think.” 

[earl-of-221b]

The intro song to 99jttw really freaking slaps. Link here (to quality opening in ep 8.)

Here it is translated. 

Xi You Ji 

Journey to the West

Hou Ge, Hou Ge! 

Monkey Bro, Monkey Bro!

Ni zhen liao bu de

You are so Extraordinary. 

Wu xing da shan ya bu zu ni

The Five Elements Mountain could not crush you,

Beng chu gi Sun Xing Ze

Bursting out a Sun Xingze (Sun Wukong’s Buddhist Dharma name). 

Hou Ge, Hou Ge!

Ni zhen tai nan de

You are too Unique (rare).

Jin gu zhou zai nian - mei gai bian - lao sun de ben se!

Recite the Band Tightening Spell countlessly, will never change This Old Sun’s nature!

Ba yi gen hao mao

Pull just one strand of hair, 

Chui chu hou wan gi

Blow out monkeys, ten thousand.

Zha yi zha yian pi 

Blink-a-blink the eyelid, 

Neng ba gui shi po 

Can expose the demons.

Fan gi - gen dou - shi wan ba qian li!

Perform a summersault, one hundred and eight thousand li 

(108,000 Chinese li/ 54,000 kilometres)

Dou yi dou - wei feng - shan beng di ye lie 

Fight-a-fight, prestigious, (causing) land slides and breaking earth.

Na li you nan dou xiang ni

Whenever there is trouble, always think to you,

Na li you xian do you ge

Whenever there is danger, always there is brother.

Shen jin bai zhan da tou zhen

Experienced hundreds of battles, leading the fight,

Cheng e yang shan xin ru fo 

Punish evil, promote good, heart like buddha.

Ni de mei ming wan ren chuan

Your famed name, tens of thousands people tell,

Ni de gu shi wan jia shuo 

Your story, thousands of families speak.

Jin gu bang ah yong shan suo

The golden cudgel, forever flickering.

Sao qing tian xia zhuo!

Sweeping clean under heaven, all filth!

(Holy Land in India.) 

[thatoneidiotdts]

Bnha boys x CrackHead! Reader

Gifs aren't mine

So incredibly scared of you

You are probably the first and last person that will always scare the living shit out of him

Once you two were going to the mall

And all of the sudden you started to do the jaywalk and almost everyone looked at you like you were a mad man

While he was like

"Nope I don't know who that dickhead is. Nope nope nope nope nope-" While walking away

He is so concern for you

He just wants you to be safe please stop making plans about how you two are going to free aliens from area 51 by filling the Nevada desert with gamer girl bath water

Once he saw you eat a whole ass lemon

Like it wasn't even peeled

He really loves you but sometimes you're just too much for him

"Hey izuku"

"Yes honey?"

"What would happen if mayonnaise came in cans? I think it would be really sad because you can't microwave metal. What do you think?"

.

..

...

....

"I'M GONNA BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH MY SHOE-"

You are the Master CrackHead and he is your apperentice Chad

You two radiate so much destructive energy while together

Both of you practice Naruto running and other meme stuff

Nobody understands the two of you

Relationship goals UwU

Doesn't understand you at all

Can misunderstand you CrackHead behavior for you having a stroke

Like once you started to sing that cockroach autotune

"Wew wew weeeeeew ,weeeeeeeeeeeew wa wa waaaaaaaaaaaaw"

"S-s/o are you ok?"

"Ba da de do dah , Bo ba radi"

"For the love of God what is happening to you?!?!!"

"Ski didi do didi do didi do do di di do dida didaaa dooooo das da didi da do di"

Loves you a lot but you also scare him and he will bow before your power to keep his life

[tara-tagalog]

Lets pronounce stuff (￣▽￣)

Tagalog is easy to pronounce, almost all of the words are read exactly as it they are written.

It might get confusing though, you will notice that there are a lot of the letter "a" in the language, for example there’s a well known Elevator scene:

Person 1: (runs to elevator) Bababa ba?

Person 2: (nods) Bababa.

what happened? Well I can simply break it down just for you:

Bababa (Going down)

Baba (Down)

Ba? (Is it?)

Do you think its nakakapagpabagabag? (Worrisome)

Its OK! You'll get used to it, besides, to efficiently learn a language you must start from the very beginning (we could read children's books if we have to!)

Lets start by letting you get used to the sounds, try saying these out loud:

A           E          I          O           U BA       BE      BI        BO      BU DA       DE     DI      DO       DU GA      GE      GI      GO      GU HA      HE      HI      HO       HU LA        LE        LI        LO        LU MA      ME    MI       MO     MU NA       NE    NI        NO      NU NGA  NGE  NGI  NGO  NGU PA       PE        PI        PO      PU RA      RE        RI       RO       RU SA       SE       SI       SO       SU TA       TE       TI        TO       TU WA    WE     WI      WO      WU YA       YE      YI        YO       YU

A=   pronounced as the a in  Apple

E=   pronounced as the e in Elephant

I=   pronounced as the I in Igloo

O=  pronounced as the o in Orange (none of that “oh” or “owe” just straight up O(range) 

U=   pronounced as the u in Uber ( similar to “oo” sound in a cows “Moo”) (or “oof” xD)

Now you might be asking, what the heck is the “NGA” parts? well it makes the same sound from the following ingles (english) words:

“Sing Along” “Thingamabob” 

notice how there is no super hard emphasis on the G (ex. Chimichanga)?

The “Ng” on its own is pronounced the same way as the NG in:

“Walking” “Drawing” “Learning”

I will use the word “Walking” for now, and add the vowels at the end try saying the following words (remember the nga sound in Sing Along):

Walkinga

Walkinge

Walkingi

Walkingo

Walkingu

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Here are some sample sentence:

“Ano gagawin natin ngayon? (What are we doing today)

“Nge, peke pala yung nabili ko” (nge! I accidentally bought a fake one!)

“Masakit ngipin ko” (My teeth/tooth hurts)

“Mabango mga bulaklak” (The Flowers smell good)

“May Talumpati ata ang Pangulo mamaya (The President might have a speech later)

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Slang time d(°∀°d) as always DONT use in formal situations:

“Ngeh” or “Ngek”

it does not mean anything. rather, it is an interjection. its an expression to when something that surprises you (but in a sarcastic way) similar to “Lol what?” or “seriously?” “is that for real?” it has a “seriously? thats so dumb!” tone to it.  (depends on what region you are in the Philippines)

ex.

“Ngeh, pano nangyari yun?” (”wha? how did that even happen?”)

“Ngek, mali yung sagot ko..” (”My answer was wrong.”.)

“Nganga”

technically it means an “open mouth”.  when a person is speechless, either you ended up “nganga” or they ended up “nganga”, or you both ended up “nganga”, in this case you’re both “Tunganga”

“Tunganga”

Dazed / Spaced out

“Ahhh”

this is easy, its just the tagalog version of “oooh”. like “oooh I get it!” in tagalog its an a sound, “Ahhh gets ko na!”

“Tungak!”

the word “Tanga” is a rude way to say idiot / Dumba** (though some close friends use it anyway, you know how friends are). The word “Tungak” Is a less rude of saying it. kind of like “Oh you idiot haha!” (still not saying that you should use this formally though, I mean you are still calling someone an idiot)

“Ewan (ko)” / “Malay (ko)”

a slang for “I dont know” ( its very unprofessional) its pretty much equivalent to “How the heck would I know?” in fact, you say it in the same tone.

“Ehhh”

compared to “ahh” this isnt as positive, its like, when someone asks you to do your chores but your too lazy just go “eeeeh”. pretty much equivalent to “uuuugh” you could add “Ayoko” at the end to make it 

“Eeehh, Ayoko!” (“Ugghhgh I dont want to!”)

“Eh”

some people usually add this at the end like an accent, usually those people are sarcastic. its also similar to “well...” for example

“Hindi ko naman alam eh!” (“Well its not like I knew about it!”)

“Ohh diba”

equivalent would be “Hah! see what I did?” you know those hah! in your face or I told you so moments where you prove someone wrong? say this to all the non-believers,

“Oh diba! sabi ko sayo eh!” (”Hah! I told you so!”)

“Geh”

not to be confused with the meme, although..they are pronounced the same;; its equivalent to “whatever”. 

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[miguelmarias]

World Poll 2019

Great recent movies (made since 2014) seen for the first time in 2019

Mademoiselle de Joncquières (Emmanuel Mouret, 2018)

Dau Huduni Methai (Song of the Horned Owl, Manju Borah, 2015)

El Crack cero (José Luis Garci, 2019)

Jiang hu er nv (Ash is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke, 2018)

Carré 35 (Plot 35, Éric Caravaca, 2017)

Sic transit Gloria Mundi (Gloria Mundi, Robert Guédiguian, 2019)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018)

Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)

Le Chant du loup (The Wolf’s Call, Antonin Braudy, 2019)

Shooting the Mafia (Kim Longinotto, 2019)

Village Rockstars (Rima Das, 2017)

Tantas Almas (Valley of Souls, Nicolás Rincón Gille, 2019)

Un peuple et son roi (Pierre Schoeller, 2018)

Aamis (Ravening, Bhaskar Hazarika, 2018/9)

Fishbone (Adán Aliaga, 2018)

O que arde (Fire Will Come, Oliver Laxe, 2019)

La Fin de la nuit (Lucas Belvaux, 2015)

Ramen Teh (Ramen Shop, Eric Khoo, 2018)

Light of My Life (Casey Affleck, 2019)

Great movies (made before 2014) seen for the first time in 2019

’49-’17 (Ruth Ann Baldwin, 1917)

Ba shan ye yu (Evening Rain / Night Rain of Mount Ba, Wu Yigong and Wu Yonggang, 1980)

The Spirit of the Flag (Allan Dwan, 1913)

Versailles (Pierre Schoeller, 2008)

Ùn pienghjite mica (Les Anonymes, Pierre Schoeller, 2012/3)

Foxfire (Joseph Pevney, 1954/5)

Johnny Come Lately (William K. Howard, 1943)

I girovaghi (Hugo Fregonese, 1956)

Nunal sa Tubig (Speck in the Water, Ishmael Bernal, 1976)

Ikaw ay Kin (You Are Mine, Ishmael Bernal, 1978)

Pervyí eshielon (The First Convoy, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1955/6)

The Sea Wolf (Alfred Santell, 1930)

Surrender (William K. Howard, 1931)

The Restless Years (Helmut Käutner, 1958)

Darling, How Could You! (Mitchell Leisen, 1951)

Ko:Yad (A Silent Way, Manju Borah, 2012)

The Flame (John H. Auer, 1947)

Ernst Thälmann-Sohn seiner Klasse (Kurt Maetzig, 1954)

Ernst Thälmann-Führer seiner Klasse (Kurt Maetzig, 1955)

Bólshaia Sémia (A Big Family, Iosif Kheífits, 1954)

Circuit Carole (Emmanuelle Cuau, 1995)

Harvey (Henry Koster, 1950)

As It Is in Life (D.W. Griffith, 1910)

Abroad with Two Yanks (Allan Dwan, 1944)

Behind Office Doors (Melville W. Brown, 1931)

Lovin’ The Ladies (Melville W. Brown, 1930)

La Tarea o cómo la pornografía salvó del tedio y mejoró la economía de la familia Partida (Homework, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1990/1)

A Modern Hero (G.W. Pabst, 1934)

Surrender (William K. Howard, 1931)

Jubilee Trail (Joseph Inman Kane, 1954)

Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1976/7)

Linda (Mrs. Wallace Reid = Dorothy Davenport, 1928/9)

Die missbrauchten Lebesbriefe (Leopold Lindtberg, 1940)

Very good movies (made since 2014) seen for the first time in 2019

Photograph (Ritesh Batra, 2019)

The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 2018)

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (Robert D. Krzykowski, 2018)

Frères ennemis (Close Enemies, David Oelhoffen, 2018)

L’Homme fidèle (A Faithful Man, Louis Garrel, 2018)

Pris de court (Not on My Watch, Emmanuelle Cuau, 2016)

Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)

Frost (Šerkšnas, Sharunas Bartas, 2017)

Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)

Da xiang xi di er zuo (An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo, 2018)

Di qiu zui hou de ye wan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan, 2018)

La Tenerezza (Tenderness, Gianni Amelio, 2017)

Fourteen (Dan Sallitt, 2019)

Bulbul Can Sing (Rima Das, 2018)

A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen, 2019)

Legado en los huesos (Fernando González Molina, 2019)

Ma vie dans l’Allemagne d’Hitler (My Life in Hitler’s Germany, Jérôme Prieur, 2018)

La Vie balagan de Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Yves Jeuland, 2018)

Gangbyeon Hotel (Hotel by the River, Hong Sang-soo, 2018)

The Wind (Emma Tammi, 2018)

Kothanodi (The River of Fables, Bhaskar Hazarika, 2015)

Dar Jostojoy-e Farideh (Finding Farideh, Azadeh Moussavi & Kourosh Ataee, 2018)

Sir (Rohena Gera, 2018)

El Proyeccionista (The Projectionist, José María Cabral, 2019)

Intemperie (Benito Zambrano, 2019)

Madre (Mother, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2017, short)

Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018)

Madre (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2019)

Very good movies (made before 2014) seen for the first time in 2019

A Life for a Kiss (Allan Dwan, 1912)

Futari de aruita iku haru aki (The Days We Spent Together, Kinoshita Keisukē, 1962)

The Necklace (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (Ship of Lost Men, Maurice Tourneur, 1929)

The Broken Locket (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

Primrose Hill (Mikhaël Hers, 2007)

The Rejected Woman (Albert Parker, 1924)

El último malón (Alcides Greca, 1917)

Bullets for O’Hara (William K. Howard, 1941)

Le Récit de Rebecca (Paul Vecchiali, 1964)

La noche avanza (Night Falls, Roberto Gavaldón, 1952)

Over-Exposed (Lewis B. Seiler, 1956)

I rollerna tre (Christina Olofson, 1996)

Il Viale della Speranza (Dino Risi, 1953)

Because of You (Joseph Pevney, 1952)

1870/…Correva l’anno di grazia 1870 (Alfredo Giannetti, 1972)

Demi-tarif (Isild Le Besco, 2003)

L’Exercice de l’État (The Minister, Pierre Schoeller, 2011)

Cheng nan jiu shi (My Memories of Old Beijing / Old Stories of the Southern Part of the City, Wu Yigong, 1983)

Strangler of the Swamp (Frank Wisbar, 1945/6)

Sword in the Desert (George Sherman, 1949)

There’s Always Tomorrow (Too Late For Love;Edward Sloman, 1934)

East Side, West Side (Allan Dwan, 1927)

Le Départ (Damien de Pierpont, 1998)

Face aux fantômes (Jean-Louis Comolli, 2009)

The Eagle and the Hawk (Mitchell Leisen, credited to Stuart Walker, 1933)

Whirlpool (Roy William Neill, 1934)

The Animal Kingdom (Edgard H. Griffith; uc. George Cukor, 1932)

Le Passager (The Passenger, Éric Caravaca, 2005)

Razumov (Sous les yeux d’Occident) (Marc Allégret, 1936)

Banjo On My Knee (John Cromwell, 1936)

One Night of Love (Victor Schertzinger, 1934)

Enchantment (Robert G. Vignola, 1921)

Charell (Mikhaël Hers, 2006)

Men With Wings (William A. Wellman, 1938)

Delitto per amore (L’edera) (Augusto Genina, 1950)

Les Amants de Minuit/Les Amours de Minuit (Augusto Genina, 1930/1)

Human Cargo (Allan Dwan, 1936)

Up the Ladder (Edward Sloman, 1925)

Luxury Liner (Richard B. Whorf, 1948)

Surrender! (Edward Sloman, 1927)

The Judge (Elmer Clifton, 1948/9)

Turbión (Antonio Momplet, 1938)

Der Ruf (Josef von Báky, 1949)

Faubourg Montmartre (Raymond Bernard, 1931)

Träumerei (Harald Braun, 1944)

The Red Lantern (Albert Capellani, 1919)

El Paseíllo (Ana Mariscal, 1968)

La quiniela (Ana Mariscal, 1960)

Great movies growing up or just rediscovered in 2019

Letter of Introduction (John M. Stahl, 1938)

Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl, 1933)

Our Wife (John M. Stahl, 1941)

Wohin und zurück (Axel Corti, 1982-6)

Giorno per giorno, disperatamente (Alfredo Gianetti, 1961)

Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (Hanns Schwarz, 1929)

Alyonka (Boris Barnet, 1961)

Craig’s Wife (Dorothy Arzner, 1936)

Imitation of Life/Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life” (John M. Stahl, 1934)

Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937)

Test Pilot (Victor Fleming, 1938)

The Eternal Sea (John H. Auer, 1955)

Hello, Sister! (Anonymous: Erich von Stroheim, Alfred L. Werker, Raoul Walsh, Alan Crosland, 1933)

La noche de enfrente (Night Across the Street, Raúl Ruiz, 2012)

Journey into Light (Stuart R. Heisler, 1951)

Feel My Pulse (Gregory LaCava, 1928)

La signora senza camelie (The Lady Without Camelias, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953)

Nosotros que fuimos tan felices (Antonio Drove, 1976)

Very good movies improved

Liana (Boris Barnet, 1955)

L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

Du haut en bas (High and Low, G.W. Pabst, 1933)

Amok (Antonio Momplet, 1944)

The Man Who Never Was (Ronald Neame, 1956)

Open Range (Kevin Costner, 2003)

Con la vida hicieron fuego (Ana Mariscal, 1959)

Timberjack (Joe Kane, 1954/5)

En la Palma de tu Mano (Roberto Gavaldón, 1951)

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)

Expreso de Andalucía (Francisco Rovira-Beleta, 1956)

El Camino (Ana Mariscal, 1963)

La viuda del capitán Estrada (José Luis Cuerda, 1991)

Vestida de azul (Antonio Giménez-Rico, 1983)

Segundo López aventurero urbano (Ana Mariscal, 1953)

Hell’s Outpost (Joe Kane, 1954)

Fuente: http://sensesofcinema.com/2020/world-poll/world-poll-2019-part-5/#4

[eng-hypnosismic]

DEATH RESPECT (JPN/ENG/ROMAJI)

「三人纏めてあんたの病院にぶち込んでやるよ」

“Let me send you three flying into your hospital” 「笑わすな。君如きでは私に届かない」 “Don’t make me laugh. I am out of league for somebody like you.” [Chorus]:

最終決戦！ Saishuu kessen Ultimate final battle!

お前はベストフレンズじゃない Omaewa BEST FRIEND janai You aren’t my best friends

Know your enemy

置き去りのリスペクト Okizari no RESPECT Abandoned respect

てっぺんから見下ろせ Teppen kara miorose Looking down from the very top

さぁ 堂々とこきおろせ Saa doudou to kokiorose Come now, dis like a boss

ラストバトル LAST BATTLE Last battle

ヒプノシス 痺れさすマイク HYPNOSIS  Shibiresasu MIC Hypnosis paralysing mic 

Mad Trigger Crew in the place to be ラストバトル  LAST BATTLE Last battle

ヒプノシス 痺れさすマイク HYPNOSIS  Shibiresasu MIC Hypnosis paralysing mic 

麻天狼 in the place to be Matenrou in the place to be

Juto:

職質以来のひさしぶりかな Shokushitsu irai no hisashiburi kana It’s been a while since our last questioning 

透けて見えるぞ そのチキンの鳥肌 Sukete mieruzo sono CHICKEN no torihada I can see it all, those goosebumps of a chicken 

突然キレるタイプは危険 Totsuzen kireru TYPE wa kiken The type to rage suddenly is a hazard

対策本部(こっち)の基本は理詰め Kocchi no kihon wa ridzume For us *the crime control department* we are the type to reason 

Hey! ネゴシエーション Hey! Negotiation

投降しなさい Toukoushinasai Surrender

瞳孔が開いたラップは所詮マスターベージョン Doukou ga hiraita RAP wa shosen MASTURBATION With those dilated pupils your rap is but masturbation

威圧は通じません Iatsu wa tsujimasen Intimidation doesn’t work here

私にはつむじ風 軽くふるいにかける Watashi niwa tsumujikaze karuku furui ni kakeru To me it’s just a whirlwind lightly brushing across

Doppo:

ああそうかい アンタらしいな Aa, soukai atarashiina Yea right, it’s so you

後悔なんて気持ちはないんだろうな その脳内 Koukai nante kimochi wa naindarou sono nounai There’s no such thing as regret in that head of yours, is it?

権力の傘の中のバランサー？ Kenryoku no kasa no naka no BALANCER? The balancer in the midst of power?

玉乗りピエロにゃ解らんさ Tamanori piero nya wakaransa A clown on a ball won’t understand 

うまくやって利用し利用され Umaku yatte riyoushi riyousare [You’re] Totally fine with using others and being used

俺には確かにその器量はねぇ (アーイ) Ore niwa tashikani sono kiryou wa nee (aai) I honestly don’t have that big of a heart to do that (aiight)

わかるかい？ Wakarukai? Get it?

褒めてんじゃねぇんだ Hometen janenda It’s not a compliment

汚職野郎をおちょくってんだ こんにゃろー Oshoku yarou wo ochokuttenda konyarou I’m just messing with your corrupted ass, fucker Riou:

無理してシャンパン    Murishite CHAMPAGNE You’re trying too hard, Champagne

ジャンクな頭 JUNK na atama Head full of junk

規律もなく流されてくカルマ Kiritsu mo naku nagasareteku KARUMA Without discipline, karma will flow out of you その止められないダウントレンドに Sono tomerarenai DOWNTREND ni In that unstoppable downtrend ヨコハマ圧倒の確かな感触 Yokohama attou no tashikana kanshoku I sense Yokohama will absolutely conquer

CrazyMの前に敵前逃亡するか CRAZY M no mae ni tekizen toubou suruka Run away from Crazy M or

ヤワな男に叩き込むリリック Yawana otoko ni tatakikomu ririkku Have lyrics drilled into you soft boy

小官はいつでも一つの人格 Shoukan wa itsudemo hitotsu no jinkaku I’ve always had only one single personality

貴様も保て品格 Kisama mo tamote hinkaku Spare me your grace Hifumi:

わっわーくさいね 男臭いね Waa waa kusai ne otoko kusai ne Wa, it smells, smells like men (1)

見た目の通りギャップなど無いね Mitame no doori GAP nado nai ne You’re just like what you appear to be, without surprise  

そうそうあなたはそれで良い Sou sou anata wa sore de ii Yea yea, be that way 

だが少し現実をしかと見てみ Daga sukoshi genjitsu wo shikato mitemi But just for a bit, look at reality

ビシッとスーツ着りゃクール Bishitto suutsu kirya COOL Wear a smart suit and be cool

Welcome 19からオバサマまで夢中にさせる新宿 WELCOME jyuukyuu kara obasama made muchuunisaseru Shinjuku Welcome to Shinjuku, enthralling(2) the nineteens to aunties

スキルは一流 Skill wa ichiryuu whose skills are top tier

勝手に言ってろお前の言い分 Katte ni ittero omae no iibun you think you could win, but that’s just you

[Chorus]* Samatoki:

Mr.ハーコー ヨコハマ BAD BOY Mr. HARDCORE Yokohama BAD BOY Mr. Hardcore Yokohama BAD BOY

貴様にロックオンしてるぜ  寂雷 Kisama ni LOCK ON shiteruze Jakurai I’ve locked on to you Jakurai

 俺のサグライフ要はダークサイド Ore no THUG LIFE you wa DARKSIDE My thug life is all about the darkside

 喰うか喰われるか そう甘くない Kuu ka Kuwareruka sou amakunai To eat or to be eaten, it’s not rainbows and butterflies (3)

貴様は洗脳 俺様は行動 Kisama wa sennou Oresama wa koudou You play mind games, I’m all about action

 特に暴いてやる Secret code Tokuni abaiteru SECRET CODE Especially in exposing your secret code

 その呪文を封印 So no jyumon wo fuin Sealing that mantra

 牙のない狼に皆ブーイング Kiba no nai ookami ni minna BOOING Everyone boo at the fangless wolves

 Jakurai:

そうさ君はそんな男 Sousa kimi wa sonna otoko Right, you’re that type of guy

 だがすでに張り巡らされたクモの糸 Daga sude ni harimegurasareta kumo no ito But I’ve already lay out the spider webs

操る やり甲斐がある単細胞 Ayatsuru yarigai ga aru tansaibou Single-minded people (4) deserves to be controlled

 その深い井戸の闇まですくおう Sono fukai ido no yami made sukuro I’ll save (5) even the darkness in a deep well

 人を束ねさらに動いてご苦労 Hito wo tabane sarani ugoite gokuro Good job leading people while you’re also working

 私は石になり正解へ導こう Watashi wa ishi ni nari sekai e michibikou I'll be their anchor (6), leading them to the right answer

 リーダーの哲学で展開するストーリー LEADER no testugaku de tenkaisuru STORY With the philosophy of a leader, bring on the story

 麻天狼が手にするグローリー Matenrou ga tenisuru GLORY In the hands of Matenrou is glory

Samatoki:

哲学なら負けてねえぞ Tetsugaku nara maketeneezo If we’re talking about philosophy, I won’t lose

 偽善にゃ辟易さ Gizen nya hekiekisa I’m getting tired of hypocrites

 Riou:

我が軍のトリオが撃破 Waga gun no TRIO ga gekiha Our army’s trio will defeat you

Juto:

裏をめくりゃ胡散臭い Ura wo mekurya usankusai Look inside yourself, you’re shady

 お前らをルーペで拡大 Omaera wo ruupe de kakudai Zoom into yourself with a magnifier

Jakurai:

君等の闇とは質が違う Kimira no yama towa shitsu ga chigau Your darkness is light compared to ours

いや次元の違う理性を保つ Iya jigen ga chigau risei wo tamotsu But we maintain sanity on a level different from yours

Hifumi & Doppo:

両サイドに破天荒な暴れん坊 Ryou SIDE ni hatenkou na abarenbou On each side he got a crazy son of a gun (7)

 天まで伸びる俺らが麻天狼 Ten made nobiru orera ga matenrou Stretching into the sky, we are Matenrou (8)

 [Chorus]*

 MTC:

MAD TRIGGER CREWが勝ち上がる MAD TRIGGER CREW ga kachiagaru Mad Trigger Crew will keep advancing through victory

 ボコボコ麻天狼にクリティカル Bokoboko matenrou ni CRITICAL Critical hit to Matenrou one right after the other

そう場違いさこの場を去りな Sou bachigaisa kono ba wo sari na This place is not for you, begone  

 Sama:

「くたばれ」 “kutabare” “Die”

 Juto: 「しょっぴくぞ!」 “Shyoppikuzo!” “You’re under arrest!” 

Riou: 「眠っとけ」 “Nemuttoke” “Go home and sleep”

  MTR:

そうくれば後悔する 叩きのめす崩壊 Sou kureba koukaisuru tatakinomesu houkai If you do that you’ll regret, get the shit beaten out of you 

無鉄砲になってこの大海原を揺蕩(たゆた)え Muteppou ni natte kono oounabara wo tayuta e Mindlessly loitering in this vast ocean

  Hifumi: 「沈んどけ」 “Shizun doke” “Sink”

Jakurai: 「これで最後だ」 “Kore de saigo da” “This is the final”

  Doppo: 「終了ぉお」 “Shyuuryooooo” “Eeeeeeeeend”

[Chorus] [Chorus]* : the first line is slightly different from [Chorus], just “決戦/kessen” instead of “最終決戦”. So instead of “ultimate final battle”, it’s “final battle.”

TL Notes:

The og text is "男臭い", which also means "manly" or "masculine", therefore it could also be translated as "You're so manly...I can smell it." So instead of attacking Riou directly it could be bit more petty.

Here I used “enthralling” for simplicity; the og text is “夢中にさせる”, which literally means something like “make you feel as if you’re in dreams”. So this could translate to something like “Shinjuku is the dream/fantasy of 19-year-olds to aunties.” 

The og text is “そう甘くない”, meaning “it’s not easy/innocent/simple”, and to capture all that I used an idiom instead of a more literal translation. 

“単細胞/tansaibou” means a single-minded or simple-minded person, but literally it means “single cell”. It’s like how the person has only one brain cell, or that he’s a unicellular organism.  

Here on the lyrics sheet from the CD, it says “すくおう(sukuou)” which could be “救おう” or “巣食おう”. The two words in this line could mean either Jakurai would “save” or “nest/take root in” the darkness of a deep well. Depending on your impression of Jakurai... 

On the lyrics sheet it says “石”, which reads “ishi” and is the same pronunciation as “医師”, doctor. 

They’re referring to themselves; as in they’re the rogues standing by the sides of Jakurai. 

In case you don’t know already, Matenrou is also the pronunciation for “skyscraper” in Japanese, so it’s a wordplay that can also mean “we’re the skyscrapers that scrapes the sky.”