#michael raver

[valravn-arts]

Aura interupted boostle date

[jellyfishjuliet]

maybe i should write michael dorn a letter begging him to write for kon and a 21st century rendition of the ravers.

[milliondollarbaby87]

The Beekeeper (2024) Review

When Adam Clay heads on a brutal campaign for revenage he wants to take down the people responsible for the death of a close friend, what wasn’t banked on was that he had been an operative in an organisation known as “Beekeepers”. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading The Beekeeper (2024) Review

[frontmezzjunkies]

Pooya Mohseni Makes Her Broadway Debut in "English": A Dream She Didn't Know She Could Have

#frontmezzjunkies posts an #interview: #PooyaMohseni Makes Her #Broadway Debut in #EnglishBway a play by #SanazToossi: A Dream She Didn't Know She Could Have conducted by @MichaelRaver @roundaboutnyc

(l to r): Tala Ashe (Elham), Hadi Tabbal (Omid), Ava Lalezarzadeh (Goli), Marjan Neshat (Marjan), Pooya Mohseni (Roya) in Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway-premiere production of English. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Interview: Pooya Mohseni (Part 3) Interview conducted by Michael Raver Pooya Mohseni has been busy. She’s having a major moment right now. This past fall, she appeared in Sarah…

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Beekeeper 2024

[oceanusborealis]

The Beekeeper - Movie Review

TL;DR – It is a solid action film and one of Jason Statham’s best roles in a while. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene.Disclosure – I paid to see this film.Warning – contains scenes that may cause distress. The Beekeeper Review – Do you have a world that exists just outside of the one we live in, moving through the cracks of society? Well, can I just…

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

The Beekeeper (15): Ludicrous Statham Action Flick... Which Actually Gave Me a Buzz.

#OneMannsMovies #FIlmReview of "The Beekeeper". #TheBeekeeper. Mindless action nonsense with Jason Statham... but actually quite fun! 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Beekeeper” (2023). In terms of ‘leave your brain at the door’ cinema, “The Beekeeper” is high up there on the list. Sometimes this type of film can leave you weeping into your popcorn. Amazingly, this one felt like a fun ride. (But, I mean, it’s still not bloody Shakespeare). Bob the Movie Man Rating: Plot Summary: When widow and charity-coordinator…

[bootleglesbian]

available bootlegs

this is everything i currently have available (updated 06/18/24). if you have anything to trade i generally prefer that but i am open to gifting any of the titles that are not starred! as a rule, if no cast is listed or only some members are listed, that means that i do not know the cast but i am happy to send a screenshot if you would like (and if anyone is interested in helping me identify unknown casts or dates of any files, let me know!).

green = video, pink = audio, starred = trade or donations only

*Anastasia (Hartford Theatre pre-Broadway run - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

*Anastasia (Broadway - Christy Altomare, Derek Klena)

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Broadway, 06/24/18 - Melissa Benoist)

Beetlejuice (Broadway, 10/31/19 aka Halloween)

Book of Mormon (Broadway - Ben Platt)

Come From Away (Broadway - Jenn Collela)

Falsettos (Proshot)

Falsettos (Broadway - ORC, not proshot)

Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nick Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

*Falsettos (Tour - Max von Essen, Nicka Adams, Eden Espinosa, Nick Blaemire, Audrey Cardwell, Bryonha Marie Parham)

Freaky Friday (La Jolla)

*Ghost (Broadway - Caissie Levy)

Hamilton (Broadway - Lexi Lawson)

Hamilton (First National Tour - Michael Luwoye, Solea Pffeifer, Joshua Henry, Emmy Raver Lampman, Isaiah Johnson, Jordan Donica, Mathenee Treco, Ruben J. Carbajal, Amber Iman, Rory O'Malley)

*Hamilton (Chicago Act 1 only - Karen Olivo, Ariana Afsar, Samantha Marie Ware, Miguel Cervantes, Joshua Henry)

*Hamilton (Broadway - OBC, not proshot)

*The Last Five Years (Off-Broadway - Betsy Wolfe, Adam Kantor)

*Lempicka (Broadway, 03/38/24 - Eden Espinosa, Amber Iman, Andrew Samonsky, George Abud, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Nathaniel Stampley, Beth Leavel)

*Mean Girls (Broadway, 02/22/20 - Renee Rapp, Erika Henningson, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell, Krystina Alabado, Kyle Selig)

*Mean Girls (National Tour)

*Mystery of Edwin Drood (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Betsy Wolfe, Jessie Mueller)

*The Prom (Alliance Theatre pre-Broadway - Caitlin Kinnunen, Anna Grace Barlow)

*She Loves Me (Broadway - ORC proshot)

Waitress (ART pre-Broadway run - Jessie Mueller, Jeanna de Waal, Keala Settle, Drew Gehling, Joe Tippett, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Fitzgerald, Eric Anderson)

*Waitress (Broadway - Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Molly Jobe, Drew Gehling)

*Waitress (Broadway - Sara Barielles, Chris Diamantopoulos, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe, Will Swenson, Christopher Fitzgerald)

*Waitress (Broadway, 06/19/17 - Betsy Wolfe, Drew Gehling)

Waitress (Broadway, 12/14/17 - Stephanie Torns, Jason Mraz)

Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

*Waitress (Broadway - Shoshana Bean, Jeremy Jordan)

Waitress (Broadway, 02/03/19 - Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel)

Waitress (Tour, 08/26/18)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/01/15 - Caroline Bowman, Kara Lindsey)

Wicked (Broadway, 02/10/13 - Donna Vivino, Ali Mauzey, Kyle Dean Massey, Randy Danson, Adam Grupper, Catherine Charlebois, F. Michael Haynie, Tom Flynn)

Wicked (unknown - Eden Espinosa, Megan Hilty)

*Wicked (Broadway - Stephanie J. Block, Annaleigh Ashford)

*Wicked (Broadway - Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark)

[sirius-crowley-immortaltwinks]

IDEK what to say about this

After a few shots of vodka, my roommates and I came up with a chaotic fancast for the marauders. I have notes but there's literally no context besides random shit written down and I figure it would be criminal to not share this absolute trainwreck with everyone so here it is... Chaotic Marauder Fancast brought to you by drunken thoughts.

Marauders

Tom Hiddleston as Sirius Black

Tom Hiddleston would be a good option to play Sirius Black. He has the capability of having a boyish attitude and sass that Sirius has become known for. Also, Adam. Nuff said.

Rami Malek as James Potter

Look at him. He also has the capability of coming up with that sass and attitude. Imagine him riding a broomstick in a quidditch uniform and that is all.

Robert Sheehan as Remus Lupin

This man could play all of the characters, but he is best suited for Remus Lupin. Unkempt look but in an attractive way. Looks like he could be a werewolf. A lot of the same Remus Lupin mannerisms.

Andrew Scott as Peter Pettigrew

A short little Irish man with a very good skill for acting a villain that's cunning and sneaky and that's why he would be a good option. He would be a very good actor to portray the change from friend to enemy.

Slytherin Skittles

Aidan Gallagher as Regulus Black

Aidan Gallagher has the capability to play an angsty character who's a little bit evil and a little bit good all rolled into one. He's also just got the look and the vibe that Regulus is kind of become known for.

David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr.

This is partially because when he played Barty in the 4th movie, he didn't get nearly enough screen time in my opinion but the other part of it is because, after watching lots of his filmography, I seriously can't think of anyone better to play it. Unfortunately we would need to make him like 30 years younger and we don't have a time machine.

Michael Sheen as Evan Rosier

I told you it would be chaotic. Maybe it's because I can't see David Tennant without Michael Sheen anymore after GO and Staged but he's also quite similar to Evan in my mind and I think he would play the character very well. Unfortunately... still no time machine tho.

Lisa Kudrow as Pandora Rosier

I mean I was watching Friends and she kinda just stuck out to me and that is why she is now Pandora. I think Lisa has the capability to play someone as wonderful, beautiful and quirky as Pandora. Also I think it would be so sweet and interesting to watch Michael and Lisa play siblings.

Valkyries

(I will admit and say that I don't know nearly enough about the Valkyries so my roommates were the ones that came up these)

Florence Pugh as Marlene McKinnon

I don't really think this one needs explaining but I do think she would be best to play Marlene McKinnon. She's got a fabulous look that would suit Marlene well especially with the fanart seen of her. I mean just look at her.

Nina Sosanya as Dorcas Meadowes

Nina's got the spunk and the attitude that Dorcas has. Mainly pulling from her performance in both GO1 and GO2, I think she is just the most fitting to play Dorcas and would act very well alongside David and Michael (as we've seen) but I think would act very well alongside Florence and Robert.

Emmy Raver-Lampman as Mary MacDonald

Has the capability to play a sweet character but could turn deadly and horrible in 0.5 seconds and that's stunning for her and would work very well for Mary. Also the depths from her pain and everything of her friends dying and then eventually obliviating her memory.

Scarlett Johansson as Lily Evans

Scarlett has the attitude of Lily Evans in real life and honestly she would be stunning. I could totally see James falling in love with Lily if she looked like Scarlett which is one of the main reasons we've cast her as Lily.

Now, we all think that the original fancast that is the most popular is perfect and stunning. This is just some brainrot. Anyway, that is all.

[kittensnax]

hi stupid question idk where to ask. where do you get kandi? i feel weird just buying it on etsy or whatever but is that fine? idk

you make it yourself with beads! or trade for it/trade kandi you made for it! you can also buy it on etsy if youd like - i think some people might say that's not necessarily the "spirit" of PLUR but i also think that kandi making is its own lil artform and supporting other ravers IS in the spirit of PLUR, so i think its ok. honestly anything to keep the spirit alive. you can find supplies for making kandi at like, any Joanne's or Michael's or whatever. or check out beadtin.com!

[omegaremix]

Darkness finds; 2022-2024.

OOPS. Looks like we jumped the gun. Earlier this month, we shared the original shorter list of @postpunkindustrial’s finds from our previous music roll (Ω+) and already it’s gotten some fever. We didn’t realize we set the trigger a few days earlier than intended, just as more of these titles were being released for all of us to have.

Good news: We upped the finds five-fold since then. We found a lot of curious stuff worth hearing and an era to appreciate, so here’s the list we intended on posting. Industrial, breakcore, new wave, goth rock, no-wave, hip-hop, noise, and experimental sounds are all on the table - and then some.

In a never-ending race for us to catch up on everything we haven’t listened to yet, we’ll still take more. It’s possible that we’ll use them for future purposes (posting, airplay, etc.) and for you to get some ideas, because that’s what we do here. But, don't thank us, thank him for sharing the wealth. It’s the right thing to do.

Siglo XX: self-titled

Clock DVA: Advantage

* various artists: New York Noise Vol. 1-3.

Gridlock: Further

Rubberoom: Architechnology

Din-S.T.: 93 In The Mornin’

Parasite vs. Electromeca: C'mon PunXXX!!! Counterattack!!!

Gravediggaz: 6 Feet Deep

God: The Anatomy Of Addiction

Diseno Corbusier: El Alma De La Estrella

Thunderinas, The: Blower

Ślepcy: Absent Opera

Mark Stewart & The Maffia: Learning To Cope With Cowardice

Somatic Responses: Uncivilized World

Xanopticon: Même Mage

* various artists: The Last Supper

Muslimgauze: Lo-Fi India Abuse

Tools You Can Trust: Working And Shopping

Dead Voices On Air: Hafted Maul

Ice: Bad Blood

Annie Anxiety: “Barbed Wire Halo” 7″

Crash Worship: A.D.R.V.

Portion Control: Shot In The Belly

Het Zweet: self-titled

Pan Sonic: A

Bourbonese Qualk: The Spike

Keith LeBlanc: Major Malfunction

Ed Flis / Seppuku Fashion: The End split

Michael Siegel: The Sounds Of The Junk Yard

* various artists: Collision Course

Corrosion of Conformity: “Vote With a Bullet” (Consolidated RMX)

Winterkälte: Drum ‘N’ Noise

SPK: “No More”

Sleep Chamber: Flesh On Flesh

Keiji Haino: Execration That Accept To Acknowledge

* various artists: Payrere 2nd edition

Hanayo & *various artists: Gift

Diseno Corbusier: Perfido Encanto

Mighty Upsetter: Kung Fu Meets The Dragon

Tangerine Dream: Thief original motion picture soundtrack

Test Dept.: Beating The Retreat

* various artists: Dry Lungs

Edgar Froese: Kamikaze

Full Watts label discography

* various artists: New York Noise Volumes 1-3

Somatic Responses: Engaging The Enemy

King Tubby: King At The Control

CPUWar & Pisstank: split LP

Organum: In Extremis

Zipper Spy: Extortionist

Dev/Null: Laser Thrash

Proyecto Mirage: self-titled

* various artists: Pathological Compilation

Revolutionaries, The: Earthquake Dub (Evolution Of Dub Vol. 5)

Optic: Raver Chix Dig Noize!

DJ Scud & Christoph Fringelli: Bodysnatcher

Einsturzende Neubauten: Stahlmusik

Tape Beatles, The: A Subtle Buoyancy Of Pulse

Din-S.T.: Ladycracker e.p.

Jackel & Hyde: Escape From South London

Fanny: Fear And Loathing For Dummies

2nd Gen.: Irony Is

DJ Scud (is Rudeboy): Jackboots And Birds

Tackhead: Tape Time

Gary Cross: Salaried Man Club

Maria Zerfall: Tote-Zone.

Throbbing Gristle & Albrecht/d.: Music From The Death Factory

Coil: “Is Suicide A Solution?” 7”

* various artists: Sexorama 1: Compilation Of Industrial Culture Mail Music

William S. Burroughs: Dead City Radio

FM Einheit: Stein

Photek: UFO

* various artists: Dirty Debutantes Vol. 1

V-Vm: The Christmas Cracker

Babyland: You Suck Crap

(Updated.)

[lazorcrab]

Finally Friday | New Yearz Mix 2025 (Part 5/5)

Happy New Year and welcome to 2025! The grand finale is here - part five of the Finally Friday New Yearz Mix 2025 wraps up this musical journey with a blend of nostalgia, energy, and emotion.

Thanks for listening to Finally Friday! Your regularly scheduled monthly Finally Friday mixes will resume in late January with episode 13! If you like '90s and early 2000s house, stay tuned for more HOUZE mixes this year as well!

Did you miss a previous part of Finally Friday New Yearz Mix 2025? Click below to listen!

Part one: https://www.tumblr.com/lazorcrab/771333687908368384/finally-friday-new-yearz-mix-2025-part-15

Part two: https://www.tumblr.com/lazorcrab/771333687908368384/finally-friday-new-yearz-mix-2025-part-25

Part three: https://www.tumblr.com/lazorcrab/771333687908368384/finally-friday-new-yearz-mix-2025-part-35

Part four: https://www.tumblr.com/lazorcrab/771423228146139136/finally-friday-new-yearz-mix-2025-part-45

Tracklist: 1. Flume - Never Be Like You (Jack Blom Bootleg) 2. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Free (Sunset Mix) 3. Sammy Virji & Interplanetary Criminal - Damager 4. United Beats - Por Que No (Alex Megane vs. Marc van Damme Remix) 5. Avicii vs. Pink Panda - The Nights (Even Steve 'Catch The Light' Bootleg) 6. Rich Gang - Lifestyle (feat. Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan) (DJ Cheesepizza Remix) 7. FlyBoyFlu - Until the End of Time 8. DJ Sliink & Faith Evans - I Love You 2 9. Armin van Buuren & Hardwell - Follow The Light 10. I. JORDAN - Close To You 11. 666cmg - U Don't Hear Me Tho' 12. Tune Up! - Ravers Fantasy (Club Mix) 13. John Summit, Sub Focus, & Julia Church - Go Back (Infinity101 Extended Mix) 14. Fred Again.., Anderson .Paak, & CHIKA - places to be 15. Dimension, Sub Focus, & NGHTMRE - Angel (feat. Mougleta) 16. Metro Boomin - BBL Drizzy 17. Kendrick Lamar - Meet The Grahams (OJC Mix) 18. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (NEON NOVA & HYPER BUNKER Remix) 19. Michael Jackson - Human Nature (MirYouMadeIt Edit) 20. DJ これからの緊急災害 - I GOT 2 (B0YFR1END RESHAPE) 21. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiësto, W&W, & Dido - Thank You (Not So Bad) 22. Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven (sim0ne & Melo Nada Remix) 23. DJ これからの緊急災害 - 808 Hotel 24. Ne-Yo - Closer (CG Edit) 25. Awesome 3 - Don't Go (Sixten Edit) 26. Central Cee - BAND4BAND (feat. Lil Baby) (GESES Techno Remix) 27. Regal86 - My Boo 28. Seven Lions & ILLENIUM - Not Even Love (feat. ÁSDÍS) (Armin van Buuren Remix) 29. Joy Orbison - flex fm (freddit) (feat. Lil Yachty, Future, & Playboi Carti) 30. Kendrick Lamar - euphoria (TMs Mayhem Alternate Intro) 31. Disclosure - Arachnids 32. Chris Lake & Disclosure - in2minds 33. Henry Fong - Feel (Real Love) 34. Future - Thought It Was A Drought (Proppa x AYOO Treatment) 35. Steve Angello - ME 36. Waka Flocka Flame - No Hands (feat. Roscoe Dash & Wale) (Sherm + PODS Edit) 37. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) (SIDEPIECE Treat) 38. David Guetta & Chris Willis - Love Is Gone (Ryad AZM Remix) 39. Jaden Bojsen & David Guetta - Let's Go 40. Common & Pete Rock - All Kind Of Ideas

[still-single]

HEATHEN DISCO no. 368 (11 Feb 2024)

set 1

Loveliescrushing – Flowered Smother

Blitz – New Age

Squarepusher – Lone Raver (Live in Chelmsford Mix)

Can – Future Days

System – Don’t Disturb This Groove

Murlo – Cat Got Your Tongue

Beth Orton – Daybreaker

Los Doroncos – Drum

Longmont Potion Castle – Cement Pirates

Love Child – Stumbling Block

Michael Garrison – Eruption

set 2

Julee Cruise – Until the End of the World

Beverly & John Martyn – Auntie Aviator

MC5 – Miss X

Faxed – Down JT

David Nance – Cure Vs. Disease

Fiery Furnaces – Leaky Tunnel

Unrest – Cath Carroll (10cc Mix part 2)

The Cardigans – Erase/Rewind

Itasca – Imitation of War

Lupo Città – Only in Love

Eightball & MJG – Comin’ Out Hard (screwed & chopped)

Lès Modernos – Laques1

Claude Fontaine – Play By Play

Gabor Szabo – Every Second Counts

set 3

Dejing - Dejing 3

Just Mustard – I Am You

Skullflower – My Sweet Lord (excerpt)

Batard Tronique – Momo Star Flash

The Equals – Mystic Syster

The Fall – I’m a Mummy

Mope Grooves – Time Runs Out

ML Buch – Solid

Riki – Know

Cabaret Voltaire – Jazz the Computer

Hawkwind Zoo – Hurry On Sundown

Mount Florida – Space Echoes

Data – Blow

Midnight Mines – Cuntsville USA

The Skaters – 3

Janne Schaffer – Postman’s Knock

Shit & Shine – YOUR DADS A LOSER

Water Damage – Ladybird

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Can't Beat the Music Vol. 2 1992 Pop / Adult Contemporary / Pop-Rock / Techno

This is such an incisive window into just how utterly strange the early 90s were in multiple parts of the world when it came to popular music writ large. Like, this is a very Australian comp here, but it deals with the same exact dynamic that was present throughout the US at the same time too, which was this very apparent, herky-jerky push-and-pull between soft and anodyne adult contemporary traditions of pop and rock, and brasher, newfangled, upstart sounds that were appreciated by and targeted more directly at the youth. Last year, when I wrote about Technotronic's pretty goofy, yet deeply important dance classic, "Pump Up the Jam," which managed to hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January of 1990, I mentioned that the only song that had kept it from the top back then was Michael Bolton's "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," which meant that all throughout America, nearly thirty-five years ago, people were getting bludgeoned by this literal one-two punch in the dead of winter on their local contemporary hit radio stations—a slow and sappy, mom-aimed pop ballad, followed by the first house tune to ever break big in the country's history. Pretty fucking absurd if you think about it.

And it appears that the *same exact* thing was happening in Australia at the same time too, as the sequencing on this album ends up yielding such strange and sudden vibe-shifts that rock from an entirely instrumental version of 2 Unlimited's silly arena Eurodance-techno-raver, "Get Ready for This," to a special 1992 duetted edition of Tina Turner's "The Best" that features Aussie adult rocker Jimmy Barnes, in order to promote the then-latest season of the New South Wales Rugby League 😵‍💫.

And there are two other songs that I think are worth highlighting here as well—one that I think is remarkably terrible and cringe and another that I think is pretty neat for what it is if you can appreciate early 90s radio pop.

So today I discovered one of the single-worst songs that I think I may have heard in my entire life: "Kickin' to the Undersound" by the Sound Unlimited Posse, which if you couldn't tell by that awful title, is a hip hop tune by Australia's first ever rap act to get signed to a major label. Feast your eyes and ears upon this early 90s monstrosity that does its very best to outdo all the embarrassment that was brought upon by people and acts like Marky Mark, Vanilla Ice, and C&C Music Factory:

Good grief; I would gladly take every single weirdly aggro Eurodance rap verse that was about sweat over 96% of whatever this was. The only thing worth saving about this song is its breaks-infused, instrumental bridge. Everything else, including the super tacky and very unsubtle sampling of Aussie new wave heroes' Men At Work's "Down Under" on the chorus, can be hauled off the side of an ocean liner for all I care 🤮.

But OK, let's now wash that down with something far less grating, with a song from Australian pop group Indecent Obsession called "Kiss Me." If you like legendary Swedish synthpop duo Roxette, then I think you'll like this tune too, because this has the same softcore, heavy breath throbbiness of Roxette's sound, a surging and extended contemporaneous radio ad-jingle-type chorus like lots of Roxette singles do, and a bridge that sounds a whole lot like the catchy 'na-na-na' part of Roxette's own "The Look" as well. Cross all that with someone who sounds a little like George Michael and you've got this pretty well-made pop tune that is very much of its early 90s time, with a hollow and compressed sound to it that makes it feel like it was solely made to be played on FM radio back then, which I don't really think is a bad thing!

So sometime in the latter part of the 90s, the adult contemporary wing of the pop music landscape began to get relegated off of contemporary hit radio stations and onto its own specific adult-oriented formats. And in AC's absence then came much more youth-oriented music, but before that gradual and significant shift ended up occurring, the top commercial pop stations appeared to have been suffering through an identity crisis; one that forsook any sense of fluidity in their playlists for trying to simultaneously appeal to both oil-and-water youth and adult demos alike. I'm not sure which thing happened first between AC not selling as much as it once did and then that causing it to get less rotation overall on top-40 radio, or if a decision was made by top-40 radio programmers to cut back on the AC, which then caused AC sales to sag; but what I do know is this: contemporary hit radio and popular music were insane in the early 90s, and it wasn't just in America, as this very strange Aussie comp so clearly proves. Maybe it felt more banal and normal while it was happening, but looking back on it now, the idea of hearing some maximally cheesy, high-powered commercial techno-rave tune lined up back-to-back with, like, a heart-poured Bette Midler ballad, is a very ridiculous and surreal thing to have ever happened, and yet it did, on both radio and comps like this one, without any discernible hint of irony.

Highlights:

2 Unlimited - "Get Ready for This" Tina Turner & Jimmy Barnes - "The Best" Baby Animals - "Ain't Gonna Get" Indecent Obsession - "Kiss Me" The KLF - "What Time Is Love" R. Kelly feat. Public Announcement - "She's Got That Vibe"

[pav-musicals]

I'm a new musical broadway trader ✨💛

[davenswitcher]

Helloooo! 🤗 Just wanted to say that I love your Rockstarion fic so so much! Do you have specific artists in mind that influenced your take on him - and maybe even Estelle as his groupie / girlfriend to be?

Thank you for your work and I hope we'll see more of Rockstarion soon ❤️

Hoooiiiii ヽ<(^Ѡ^)>���ﾞ

Thanks so much for your ask!

One particular piece that influenced Rockstarion was this artwork by @snottiesnot:

the 80s vibes are ✨immaculate✨ and I immediately felt the roaring of the stage and the cheering of the fans. (and his happiness just radiates through <3)

When it comes to music, mainly The Ballad Of Buck Ravers by Samurai but also the artist Prince is a big influence. Especially his Purple Rain era fits so so well with him. Michael Jacksons Bad era sneaks in too from time to time :D

I do listen to some modern pieces or 90s rock too when I write, but it has to fit the vibe.

When I write him, I have a mix of musicians in mind and their struggles. And anxiety is a big part. The 80s were full of wild stories, but the 60s and 70s had tragedies too. Losing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley etc. And I try to capture this fantastic 80s energy, as it was an influential decade. Dirty Dancing might be a little bit of an influence too 🤭

It's so much fun to imagine his character as a rockstar in a modern-ish Faerûn. Astarion in general is just too fun to write.

When I first wrote Estellé I listened to Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson (a song about groupies haha) and that's how she came to life. Then for the long fic I tried to imagine who she is and what struggles she has. And since she's a student, she has a different world view than a seasoned rockstar. She wisened up a little bit working at a hotel, but she's still about a decade younger than him and has different experiences growing up.

Don't worry, we haven't seen the last of him yet 👀 As soon it's not the 9th layer of Avernus I might be able to concentrate better on writing the next chapter :D

Thank you ever so much with keeping up with this fic!