#kissing u frog ty for sending this in

[handhelld]

Whats jackals favorite method of getting info? Does jackal have any friends among the Payday gang outside of dallas? How does he keep track of info?

How many hawaiian shirts does he have (important)

I literally wrote a wholeass response to this n it got blasted outta existence so now i gotta rewrite it, going to EXPLODE!!!

So Jackal is an old fashioned guy and keeps all his info in physical copies. Its not like when he started out he had a notes app to put shit in unfortunately. After he had to like rapid speed burn and destroy all his files when he fled Chicago, Jackal started to keep everything in code. Its mainly a combination of shorthand, shitasss handwriting, and just illegable bullshit, but it works.

When it comes to gathering information, Jackal is again, old fashioned kinda guy. He cant do any cool hacker shit like Joy, but he has connections. He loves to do everything by hand on the ground, and that means undercover infiltrations, disguises, and all that funstuff. Jackal is an expert at putting up metaphorical masks, so much so that he loses who he rlly is.

A classic way he gathered info back in the day, was simply by mingling and listening. He worked at Casinos back in Vegas as Bartenders and Blackjack dealers. It's due to his reputation as a blackjack dealer informant that he earned one of his many aliases, The Jack of Clubs. (This being a bit of a reference to the Myth of the origin of the name Blackjack, and also tying into how people would subtly contact him for information through gambling)

He isn't a huge fan of it, but isnt against the classic honeypot as well. Jackal sometimes misses being a fair skinned young woman because this shit was so much easier back then. He does sex favors sometimes to get info, but draws the line at his own body. He refuses to let others touch him in that manner.

When it comes to his relations with the payday gang, I don't have thought out stuff on all of them, but he is rather close with Houston, Bonnie, and John Wick!

Bonnie and him are definately gambling buddies, and while she can drink him under the table, it's fun to get shitfaced and play cards, roping everyone else in along with them.

Houston and Jackal had a rough relationship at first, because of course neither knew the other existed despite being important people in dallas's life. Houston is the reason Jackal tells his family he's alive, because the man gets VERY pissed learning he let them believe he was dead for 15+ Years. He dealt with the same thing afterall.

And WICK! Unlikely friends, but Wick is a sensitive guy and he very much is the one who helps Jackal through his emotional shit with Dallas. He gives actually good and thoughtful advice unlike Bonnie ("If he wasnt our chief I'd say you gut the man."). John has met and lost the love of his life, and knows how badly That hurts, so he doenst want Jackal to go through that same thing. He still has a chance. In general John n Jackal are just very chill dudes together.

Other than those guys he also is friends with Vlad and Sydney, and Sydney drags him along places with her and the lil freak squad as “the chaperone”. Helps him get outta his shell a bunch after joining the gang.

As to Jackal’s hawaiian shirt collection? Atleast seven. Every new hawaiian shirt I get, he also gets. He has more than just those though. Plenty of other obscene loud n horrid button ups. He started getting them when he played clueless tourist in vegas but realised very fast how much he unironically loves them.

[thesunlounge]

Reviews 357: Rosa

Though Dario di Pace (Mystic Jungle), Raffaele Arcella (Whodamanny), and Enrico Fierro (Milord) have most recently been concentrating on 12”s filled with all manner of adventurous dancefloor fire…things such as Mystic Jungle’s Jurakan, Whodamanny’ The Dance Sucker, Milord’s new age-tinged M · E · T · A / M · U · S · I · C, the trio’s union with Giulio Neri as Masarima, or the spellbinding Italo-Saharan grooves of their Afrodesia project…it’s worth remembering that the main Periodica crew are equally adept at weaving mysterious narratives across the album format. Indeed, as the Mystic Jungle Tribe, di Pace, Arcella, and Fierro used psychoactive combinations of boogie, funk, and freakout to explore otherworldly paradises of tropical psychedelia on epic albums such as Qvisisana and Plenilunio, whereas separately, each member has dropped their own expansive long players: Milord with the inner space electro trip-outs and kosmische energy drones of Delta Waves Dimension, Mystic Jungle with the electrifying future boogie, intergalactic synth funk, and weirdo balearica of Night of Cheetah, and Whodamanny’s T.C.P., which comprises an esoteric journey of sci-fi dancing, synthetic splatter jazz, and ritualistic groove hypnosis.

So with all that said, it comes as no surprise that for Rosa, their new project as part Periodica’s recently launched “Serie Pegaso,” di Pace, Arcella, and Fierro are again dabbling in longform sonic narrative, though as a mini-LP, Acqua di Sale brilliantly cuts the difference between the trio’s more recent interests in euphoric dancefloor fare and their deft skills at weaving an interconnected album experience, for in so far as each track could work on its own as a club ready bomb, when taken as a whole, a mysterious story emerges, with themes resurfacing and reprising across the LP in a way that ties the whole experience together. In fact, to help inspire the imagination, the West Hill crew enlisted the literary skills of Marco Ferretti (from Musica Per Immagini and the review site SOUTERRAINE), who provides a loose plot concerning Napoli’s nighttime transformation into a setting of forbidden romances and dark temptations of the soul. And though in the past the trio have largely performed on their own, here, as on Afrodesia - Episode One, the palette has been expanded to include a host of session players, with the vibes of paradise disco, mediterranean funk, and cinematic pop made all the more colorful by live guitar, percussion, saxophone, bass, and voice, the latter of which is sourced by the enigmatic femme fatale Rosa from whom the LP takes its name.

Rosa - Acqua di Sale (Periodica Records, 2020) This tale of temptation opens with “Sera di Posillipo” and its disco beats cracking through reverb while basslines slink between greasy growls and lizard funk slides. Palm-muting guitars cycle through AOR-kissed fairy dances and e-pianos smear into an equatorial mirage before locking into bluesy chord riffs, with the whole thing evoking a lackadaisical dance down some sunset beach. The vibe is made all the more romantic when Rosa starts cooing through expressive diva-isms and melodious lyricisms while starshine curlicues descend from the sky. There are sensual key changes led by splashing fusion drums, soloing blues guitars, and bell-tree sparkles and as we blast into the chorus, Rosa’s voice sings out with anthemic power while brass synths and Giulio de Asmundis’ saxophone blare in unison before settling into a heatwave drone that backgrounds liquiform synthesizer, guitar, and piano conversations. And in softly spoken climaxes, the sax blows currents of sexual warmth before giving over to soloing seascape vibrato electronics. The title track comes to life on splashing cymbals and machine gun snares before slow motion disco drums and packy tom fills fire beneath alien cymbal accents, guiro scrapes, video game lasers, and tambourine jangles. Further grease-soaked basslines walk the depths of the night, palm-muted guitars generate sensual colorations, flamboyant hi-hat and snare accents work the body, and synthesized mirages swell alongside stabbing synthbrass chords before a drum fill cuts the groove to silence, after which Rosa enters to lead a supremely sexual dancefloor strut, with her snapping lyrical flows intercut by moonlit guitar licks and zany six-string slides. Later, we are treated to saxophonic schmaltz, with de Asmundis’ tenor reveling in beachside adult-contemporary and sweltering sing-song desperation while being tracked by staccato synth bursts. Somewhere near the middle, we flow into a dopamine dream bridge wherein Rosa repeats the track title under longform and hypnotizing phrasing, the vibe ultra cool…like shades drawn against the mediterranean night. And following this passage comes a smoldering blues guitar solo, with overdriven tube amps singing and fluid runs landing like smoke.

Going out of order slightly, hyperspeed Latin fusion fills introduce “Il Sassofono Blu” before we lock into a swaggering and lowdown future funk groove, with galactic synthesizers carrying the spirit to a cosmic ocean paradise before sharply cutting away, leaving bass and drums to jam beneath confidently strummed guitar riffs and flashy hammer-on twirls. A massive drum fill introduces a super smooth saxophone hook…easily one of the catchiest melodic moments of 2020 and like a loner blues man using his tenor to serenade the soul...and at some point, those galactic synthesizers diffuse back into the mix, bringing blankets of shimmering cosmic magic before pulling away again. E-piano chordscapes change the vibe towards filmic romance and the saxophone moans in desperation while clattering hand drums and rainforest percussions roll all throughout the stereo field. There’s a moment where the mix devolves to four-four kick drums, sandy reverb snares, and tapped tones of bell and wood before a lone guitar enters to scratch out psychedelic funk riffs. The basslines slide effortlessly underneath and squelching fusion synth tracers melt over everything…like threads of mediterranean dream energy spilling over one another. After retuning to the earworm tenor hooks and ultra-confident body funk groove out, we ascend upwards once more, with e-piano riffs and sleepy-eyed chord decays supporting the saxophone as it screams towards a blood red moon. As mentioned in the introduction, Acqua di Sale expertly cuts the difference between club and concept and this is readily apparent with “Tentazione,” which is, in some sense, a dubbed out rework of the title track that excises most of the vocals and leaves slightly more space in the mix. Thus its inclusion can be simply seen as giving selectors an option between the original vocal version and a dubwise near-instrumental, or it can be interpreted as a thematic through line tying the narrative of the album together, as the track brilliantly reprises and reconfigures sounds previously heard while also expanding the vibe, which in the case of “Tentazione,” involves adding in a second dopamine dream bridge climax, wherein Rosa casts spells of forbidden enchantment by repeating “Acqua di Sale��� under a delirium delay haze.

A-side closer “Bar Riviera” is a balearic masterpiece and begins with spaceage synthesizers climbing towards the stars before flashing into a broken and downbeat drum glide guided by low slung sub bass riffing and palm-muting guitar accents. Claps crack and heatwave chords blast all around, creating magical polyrhthms while future funk electronics evoke a psychoactive frog song. Rosa’s voice is a sort of moaned conversation, hitting like hot breath on the neck and with multi-tracked lyricisms sitting just out of phase and creating a feverish delirium effect before being trailed by anthemic sci-fi synthesizer themes…these galactic pad descents that send shivers down the spine. Shadow pop and romantic fusion interludes see double time hats ticking beneath whispered vocal spells, with oceanic synths billowing out into the interstellar ether, galactic winds whooshing, prog basslines journeying through cloudlands, and an electric guitar tracking the voice, creating beautiful moments of soul-jazz scatting. At some point we return to the introductory rhythm bashing, as the track works through an extended electro-drum vibe out before flowing back towards downtempo funk sensuality. Elsewhere we give over to soft square wave synth solos, which alight on paradisiacal adventures into the mediterranean night while polyrhythmic chords, broken beat disco drums, and pulsing basslines flow underneath. And towards the end, skronking blues guitars occasionally break free from the funk riffing for freaky psych squiggles while the aforementioned descending pads continue their epic themes of cosmic melancholy. “Bar Riviera (Strumentale),” which closes out the other side, can be interpreted, if so desired, as a functional dancefloor tool giving DJs the option between a vocal and instrumental version. But like “Tentazione,” this alternate version also serves to tie the album experience together and can be seen as a thematic reprise, one akin to revisiting the locations from the preceding night’s mysterious adventure, only now with everything seen in the glow of dawn…the effect like lying back on the beaches of Posillipo and watching sunrise colorations swallow the last sparkles of starlight.

(images from my personal copy)

[batsysims]

100 QUESTIONS NO ONE ASKS

I was tagged by @tickledsims ty ily!!

1. DO YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR CLOSET DOORS OPEN OR CLOSED? CLOSED when i was younger my little sister had a baby doll that would talk on its own at night and we called it the demon baby and hooooly shit

2. DO YOU TAKE THE SHAMPOOS AND CONDITIONER BOTTLES FROM HOTELS? i dont take those bc my hair cant take cheap hair products but i do take the soaps!!

3. DO YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR SHEETS TUCKED IN OR OUT? i put the mattress cover sheet thingy on my bed but i dont use an actual sheet :/

4. HAVE YOU STOLEN A STREET SIGN BEFORE? nah lol

5. DO YOU LIKE TO USE POST-IT NOTES? YES i love using office supplies i could spend all day at staples omg

6. DO YOU CUT OUT COUPONS BUT THEN NEVER USE THEM? no lol but il save the lil receipt coupons and find them in my wallet months after they expire

7. WOULD YOU RATHER BE ATTACKED BY A BIG BEAR OR A SWARM OF BEES? hhhhh bees

8. DO YOU HAVE FRECKLES? yep!! i love them its why im scared to use foundation i dont wanna lose em

9. DO YOU ALWAYS SMILE FOR PICTURES? i either smile or if my moms takin the pic il make a stupid face 

10. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE? i have terrible road rage...... um........... i also hate it when men interrupt me i just walk away at that point 

11. DO YOU EVER COUNT YOUR STEPS WHEN YOU WALK? yeah i pretty much count everything

12. HAVE YOU PEED IN THE WOODS? i dont think so??

13. HAVE YOU EVER POOPED IN THE WOODS? def not lmao

14. DO YOU EVER DANCE EVEN IF THERES NO MUSIC PLAYING? i have an eating dance, a drinking dance, and a video game playing dance hahaa

15. DO YOU CHEW YOUR PENS AND PENCILS? yes ugh it annoys me but i cant stop

16. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU SLEPT WITH THIS WEEK? at LEAST 0

17. WHAT SIZE IS YOUR BED? i think its a single? a single or a twin either way im miserable send help

18. WHAT IS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? ummm probably You by Weird Milk?? its the most recent song i added on spotify so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

19. IS IT OK FOR GUYS TO WEAR PINK? yeah def unless its one of those “real men wear pink shirts” like just.... stop

20. DO YOU STILL WATCH CARTOONS? sometimes my sister makes me watch stevens universe?? il watch phineas and ferb too bc honestly who doesnt anime too but not always cartoon ones or w/e

21. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE MOVIE? 2001: A Space Odyssey and Daughters of the Dust come to mind

22. WHERE WOULD YOU BURY HIDDEN TREASURE IF YOU HAD SOME? u kno where ;) no how big is the treasure?? if its a lil bit id put it in that drawer under the oven bc my family never uses that but if its BIG TREASURE id hide it in the backyard of the last house i lived in bc a. nobody lives there now and 2. its totally overrun with green bc of like two floods

23. WHAT DO YOU DRINK WITH DINNER? water! only water ever

24. WHAT DO YOU DIP A CHICKEN NUGGET IN? honey if theyre mcnuggets but other than that i use honey mustard!

25. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? chicky parm

26. WHAT MOVIES COULD YOU WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND STILL LOVE? honestly Inception is my feel-good movie

27. LAST PERSON, YOU KISSED/KISSED YOU? a lil babu

28. WERE YOU EVER A BOY/GIRL SCOUT? i was in girl scouts much longer than i ever wanted to be lmao WISH i coulda done BOY SCOUTS

29. WOULD YOU EVER STRIP OR POSE NUDE IN A MAGAZINE? if cash is involved absolutely

30. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WROTE A LETTER TO SOMEONE ON PAPER? aboutttt three months ago!

31. CAN YOU CHANGE THE OIL ON A CAR? no but i can watch

32. EVER GOTTEN A SPEEDING TICKET? when i first got my license yea :( 15 yr olds are dum

33. EVER RAN OUT OF GAS? twice! very good memories

34. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE KIND OF SANDWICH? egg salad gud

35. BEST THING TO EAT FOR BREAKFAST? the all star breakfast at waffle house yasssss

36. WHAT IS YOUR USUAL BEDTIME? honestly like 9 since i always have to wake up at 7 in the am but il stay up til 11 if i can

37. ARE YOU LAZY? absolutely when have ACTIVE ppl done ANYTHING

38. WHEN YOU WERE A KID, WHAT DID YOU DRESS UP AS FOR HALLOWEEN? i was usually a cat bc i never could find a costume i liked smh but when i was 2 i went as winnie the pooh lmao

39. WHAT IS YOUR CHINESE ASTROLOGICAL SIGN? ox!

40. HOW MANY LANGUAGES CAN YOU SPEAK? just english but im tryna learn spanish and japanese and im fluent in french if a two year olds speech patterns can be considered as such

41. DO YOU HAVE ANY MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS? nah

42. WHICH ARE BETTER: LEGOS OR LINCOLN LOGS? LEGOS lincoln logs are big with nostalgia thoooo

43. ARE YOU STUBBORN? with dumb shit yeah but i usually just dont care enough abt stuff to deal

44. WHO IS BETTER: LENO OR LETTERMAN? theyre both old idc

45. EVER WATCH SOAP OPERAS? no lol

46. ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS? not really tbh i like the adrenaline

47. DO YOU SING IN THE CAR? if im alone!! nobody deserves to hear that

48. DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER? nahhh

49. DO YOU DANCE IN THE CAR? when im in the drive thru haaaa

50. EVER USED A GUN? id like to go to a shooting range some time but ive never used one im also very anti gun so i probs would never buy one unless it was a cute lil glock i can handle well

51. LAST TIME YOU GOT A PORTRAIT TAKEN BY A PHOTOGRAPHER? st patricks day it wasnt technically for me tho

52. DO YOU THINK MUSICALS ARE CHEESY? not in general but when ppl start obsessing over a certain one for months on end abt a certain time period and certain performers and certain songs and certain people of history i start wanting ppl to die

53. IS CHRISTMAS STRESSFUL? YEAH I NEVER HAVE MONEY WTF

54. EVER EAT A PIEROGI? my sisters obsessed with them so yea but never like. authentic polish potato pockets or anything just a frozen box of em

55. FAVORITE TYPE OF FRUIT PIE? apple?? im not rly into pie tbh

56. OCCUPATIONS YOU WANTED TO BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? ive wanted to go into law enforcement/criminology my whole life!! for a sec i wanted to be a firefighter, a journalist/writer/poet, and some sort of artist but u know how kids are

57. DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? i tried to find that clip from malcolm in the middle for like ten mins but i couldnt yea

58. EVER HAVE A DEJA-VU FEELING? doesnt everyone tho?

59. DO YOU TAKE A VITAMIN DAILY? no im a bad adult

60. DO YOU WEAR SLIPPERS? nah

61. DO YOU WEAR A BATH ROBE? im not rich!!

62. WHAT DO YOU WEAR TO BED? usually just my undies but when im living with other people il wear a soft shirt and my dc heroes pajama bottoms ayyy

63. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCERT? ive never been to one! i was gonna go see metallica in baltimore but i moved before i could smh

64. WALMART, TARGET, OR KMART? walmart sry targets cool but too much money!!! i go there for home things tho does kmart still exist

65. NIKE OR ADIDAS? ADIDAS ive been trying to get a full adidas tracksuit for YEARS

66. CHEETOS OR FRITOS? fritos! i like the super hot cheetos tho

67. PEANUTS OR SUNFLOWER SEEDS? peanutsssss

68. EVER HEAR OF THE GROUP TRES BIEN? Nope but they must be good im keepin @tickledsims response bc it made me laugh

69. EVER TAKE DANCE LESSONS? when i was a lil babu i took ballet and gymnastics a lil later

70. IS THERE A PROFESSION YOU PICTURE YOUR FUTURE SPOUSE DOING? i hope to never have a spouse  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

71. CAN YOU CURL YOUR TONGUE? yep

72. EVER WON A SPELLING BEE? ive actually never even had a spelling bee im sure theyre a myth

73. HAVE YOU EVER CRIED BECAUSE YOU WERE SO HAPPY? i think so??

74. OWN ANY RECORD ALBUMS? nah

75. OWN A RECORD PLAYER? nahhhhh

76. DO YOU REGULARLY BURN INCENSE? no but i had a roommate who did i fell in love

77. EVER BEEN IN LOVE? yeah ok lol so one time when i was a sophomore my french teacher had to use a substitute teacher and hes the reason i believe in love at first sight im STILL in love with him wtf ive also had a bf haha im hilarious

78. WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN CONCERT? i dont really do concerts so i couldnt say but i think matd would be fun!!

79. WHAT WAS THE LAST CONCERT YOU SAW? oh my god

80. HOT TEA OR COLD TEA? hot!!!!

81. TEA OR COFFEE? coffee!!!!!!

82. SUGAR COOKIES OR SNICKERDOODLES? i dont rly like either but i prefer snickerdoodles over sugar

83. CAN YOU SWIM WELL? i can only do that weird frog swim i forget what its called so no im shit at it

84. CAN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH WITHOUT HOLDING YOUR NOSE? ye

85. ARE YOU PATIENT? if im able to distract myself?? it also depends on the severity of what im waiting on i guess

86. DJ OR BAND AT A WEDDING? probs a band i guess i dont rly think abt that kinda stuff sry

87. EVER WON A CONTEST? when i was four i won a coloring contest at the ice cream store

88. HAVE YOU EVER HAD PLASTIC SURGERY? nope im poor 89. WHICH ARE BETTER: BLACK OR GREEN OLIVES? both are good!

90. CAN YOU KNIT OR CROCHET? i can knit but i cant crochet

91. BEST ROOM FOR A FIREPLACE? fckn bathroom

92. DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED? not rly unless its a partnership longlasting romance stresses me out especially with financial responsibility etc

93. IF MARRIED, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN MARRIED? -20 years

94. WHO WAS YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH? my high school boyfriend hahaaa h,,,,

95. DO YOU CRY AND THROW A FIT UNTIL YOU GET YOUR OWN WAY? im an adult sry

96. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? 1!

97. DO YOU WANT KIDS? nope! lmao i love her tho

98. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? red but i also like many others??? idk

99. DO YOU MISS ANYONE RIGHT NOW? ummm not rly?? im not close enough to anyone to miss them and those i am close to im able to hang with

100. WHO ARE YOU GOING TO TAG TO DO THIS TAG NEXT? god uhhh if you havent done it already and want to, @dreambot @nebula-simms @ellowynsims and @pixelbloom