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Balloonerism A Stunning Float Of Miller's Legacy On Presumptive Finale LP

Image Courtesy of Google I’ve come to regard the passage of time as having many varying facets. Some prisms possess the weight of growing heavyheartedness or the fickle, fleeting, joyfully sober nature of a faithful creature companion. Others act as the Christmas Carol ghosts of Dickens, haunting the journey with prolific, narrated finalities. All are just a few ticking examples of the many…

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Balloonerism by Mac Miller (2025) Review

this month, i listened to every mac album over again in preparation for this release. ive never heard the leaked version (thankfully) so going into this blind is really helping the world building and dreamlike soundscape that is "Balloonerism": an unreleased album that was made between the recordings of "Faces" in 2014 and "GO:OD AM" in 2015.

"Faces" sounded like hallucinations mac had while on trips of his worst and introspective thoughts of his depression and "Circles", his previous posthumous record, sounded as if mac was finally at peace and closed a book of a person who was troubled, struggled, and finally met his oasis at the end of the tunnel. if this album sounds like anything, it likens to a combination of both but a dream plucked and explored for the fun, the beauty, and the horrors.

the first two tracks really lavish the psychedelic and wide world mac presents before painting himself in on "Do You Have A Destination?" leaving on notes of overgrown subway trains with connected radios asking the listener where they expect this album to continue.

"5 Dollar Pony Rides" is so fun. sounds like a proto-"What's the Use?" but sillier and uplifting. thundercat is truly treasured on any track he's on with mac.

the next few tracks just add to the groove and paint-like visions of stories from mr miller and these might be some of the most creative lines he's put on paper. every line feels like it has years worth of backstory, threads, and emotion. the family depiction on "Friendly Hallucinations", friends and the mind he's lost during his fame on "Mrs. Deborah Downer", the personal lines and physical knocking on "Stoned", its insanely vivid.

the highlight on here obviously has to be "Funny Papers". beside the saddening connection with mac himself, its beautiful. a very bittersweet and softer rocker about the deaths (tragedy) and births (miracles) in news before taking time to reflect on himself. "Ain't an innovator, just a motherfuckin' illustrator". i think on this one, he painted a perfect picture and really made me cry again to art.

one track that brings the experience down is "Transformations", a track that features mac's alter-ego "delusional thomas" and while the beat is fitting, the persona i can't recommend. the voice modulation and constant shifting were never going to age the best and there's not a lot of value from the lyrics themselves.

while "Excelsior" is a fun little 2 & 1/2 minutes of child retrospection, and "Manakins" is fine, the last two tracks "Rick's Piano" & "Tomorrow Will Never Know" really over-shine them during the last leg of the album. the former is a wonderful 5 minutes of dreamy and fun mac before we send the world of "Balloonerism" to it's end. the ladder is probably the biggest song mac has in his entire catalogue. 12 entire minutes dedicated to mac exploring his depression and the finale. the end of life, the end of childhood, and the end of problems. it ends on a phone ringing and never being picked up with children playing in the background. an insanely haunting and sad finish.

"Balloonerism" is probably the last full project we will ever get from mac miller and his estate. and i can live with that. its the last dream from him to finally get an official release and one to end on a different, more interesting note.

we miss you mac miller, and we hope your journey to heaven has led to peace, love, and all the weed you'll ever need.

97/110

FAVS: Do You Have A Destination?, 5 Dollar Pony Rides, Funny Papers, Rick's Piano

WORST: Transformations

[burningexeter]

Let me give this show some attention since why not.

Here's a fairly solid amount of all the different kinds of media that I think both can fit well in and could share the same universe as Bede Blake & Robert Butler's Creeped Out, which you can both read and see below for yourself:

First off, here's the episodes from both seasons that are all set in the same universe as each other in this "Verse" —

Season 1

— Slapstick, Trolled, A Boy Called Red, Kindlesticks, Shed No Fear and Side Show 1 & 2

Season 2

— Itchy, The Many Place, The Unfortunate Five, No Filter, The Takedown & Splinta Claws

Eight downer endings and four good endings.

Second, now here's the actual universe —

• Dan Angel & Billy Brown's R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series

— Every episode of the entire series except Red Eye, Poof De Fromage, Bad Egg, Mrs. Worthington and Lotsa Luck

• Jeff Kline's Transformers Prime & Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising

• Dan Mandel & Chris Pearson's Dan Vs.

• Dan Cross & David Hoge's Pair Of Kings

• Amy Heckerling's Fast Times At Ridgemont High & Clueless (1995)

• David Mirkin's Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

• Lloyd Goldfine's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)

• Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories

— Every episode of the entire series except Guilt Trip and Family Dog

• Michael Lehmann's Heathers (1988)

• Stephen Herek's Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991)

• Darren Stein's Jawbreaker (1999)

• Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan's Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

• Roberto Aguirre-Sarcasa's Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (Netflix)

• Alfred Gough & Miles Millar's Wednesday (Netflix)

• Edgar Wright's Don't (Fake Trailer)

• Rob Zombie's Werewolf Women Of The S.S. (Fake Trailer)

• Eli Roth's Thanksgiving (Fake Trailer & 2023 film)

• Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (TV Series)

• Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service

• Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987)

• Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer

• New Line Cinema's Critters (1 & 2)

• Joe Dante's The 'Burbs (1988)

• Gil Kenan's A Boy Called Christmas (2021)

and

• Michael Dougherty's Trick r Treat & Krampus

[tiffywiffy1010]

i lie awake faded, watch the days go by

and only at the lows do i chase that high

[maryjanelbw]

my favs from balloonerism 🎈 happy birthday mac 💙

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Promo image of Jake Fortune-Lloyd as Eppy.

24 notes • Posted 2021-10-22 21:30:30 GMT

#4

"When I arrived at Beaconsfield, Brian was quite a personality," his brother recalled. Brian had a good singing voice and was in the school choir - "I don't know why he didn't do anything with the voice.

Clive Epstein (via Ray Coleman's The Man Who Made the Beatles [page 24]

30 notes • Posted 2021-10-11 08:25:05 GMT

#3

Okay, so I don't want to end this day on a total downer, so here's a recipe Brian wrote up for a 1967 celebrity cookbook (titled, rather creatively, Celebrity Cooking)

@monkberries, @eppysboys, @lennon-cuddlywump

49 notes • Posted 2021-09-08 06:14:09 GMT

#2

Can We Please Stop Spreading Around the Rumor that Brian Epstein was a Shady Businessman?

Okay, so normally, this ain't my style of posting, and it'll probably show, but for the love of all that is holy, I am sick and tired of seeing the occasional post that implies Brian purposefully worked with shady business types and outright stating that he laundered money.

To start with, the only person I've seen saying Brian laundered money who knew the Beatles was Peter Brown. You know, the guy who was widely criticized for his 1983 book about the Beatles? To the point Paul and Linda burned his book and if I remember correctly, Clive (Brian's brother) had some choice words to say about it as well: https://mrepstein.tumblr.com/post/635015496832581632/peter-brown-is-now-a-blue-meanie-in-beatleland-he

Hell, even Brian himself didn't trust Peter Brown, I have here an excerpt (taken from The Brian Epstein Story by Deborah Geller): "In the finish, he didn’t trust anybody. He just had this thing about people. I’ve never told anyone this before, but one day Brian asked me if I would kill Peter Brown. That’s how trustworthy he got with Mr Brown. Would I kill him? What would it cost to kill Peter Brown? I thought, ‘Christ.’ I told him there were ways of getting it done. ‘There’s money and money speaks, sir, but do you really want to do this?’ He said he didn’t want anybody else but me to do it. I thought, ‘The state of mind he’s in, he’d be round the police station.’ He could build up this terrific hatred for a while. Then it seemed to fade and fade." -Bryan Barrett

Also, I find the idea that Brian would purposefully work with con men and launder money to be extremely out of character. Now, I'll fully admit that Brian was reckless and that he had a gambling problem. However, he was noted by just about everyone who knew him (with the exception of Brown) that Brian was extremely honorable in his business dealings. Also, he was openly socialist (Labour Party), as detailed here: https://mrepstein.tumblr.com/post/160795411656/brian-epstein-its-worth-noting-had-always-been

I'd also like to follow this up with a quote from Brian himself that I felt was relevant: https://beatlesfan2000posts.tumblr.com/post/643220325152227328/the-reason-why-such-an-awful-lot-of-sharp

Okay, so allow me to clarify before I go any further: I am by no means wanting to see none of Brian's character flaws talked about. Hell, I'm fully willing to admit that he was an impulsive, stubborn, reckless son of a bitch who was prone to mood swings. At the same time though, I find these claims rather baseless, considering that the primary source that these claims stems from was himself untrustworthy. I'm hesitant to throw out claims of anti-Semitism, since I'm not Jewish myself, or claims of homophobia since I'm a questioning bisexual, but at the same time, I am all too aware of the old stereotypes of the greedy Jew and the predatory gay man. Really, both of those need to be tossed out. It's 2021. I expect better from my own damn generation. I understand that both these were far more common in the 1960s (i.e. when Brian was still alive), but we really should know better, especially after the racial reckonings we've had in 2020 and 2021.

And that brings me to my last point: I've noticed that this fandom has a big problem with being critical of their sources. For example, I've seen people unironically citing Albert Goldman as a source when they're claiming that Yoko Ono abused John. ...You know, the guy whose book was so bad, the Wikipedia page is basically one long list of all the inaccuracies and details about how Goldman demonized John and almost everyone else in his life and was extremely racist towards Yoko Ono???

The one thing I don't want to do with this is to imply that anyone spreading this stuff around is stupid, especially since I know most people in this fandom and on this site are between 13-25 years old. Hell, I don't even think that many of them are intentionally trying to be bigoted. However, I do think that this fandom does need to be more critical of the sources we consume. Hell, I actually had to learn that lesson myself recently because I used to take Mark Lewisohn completely at his word, only to be told by a friend that he had some pro-John anti-Paul biases. And really, this is more a vent on my point and I'm really not seeking to gain anything from this. Mostly, I'm just sick and tired of seeing this pop up on my dash from time to time. In my view, Brian went through enough in life as it is. I don't want to see him be disrespected like this when he's been dead for over fifty years now.

49 notes • Posted 2021-04-07 03:11:02 GMT

#1

Ladies and gents, here’s a pic of Brian Epstein shirtless for your viewing pleasure ;)

94 notes • Posted 2021-02-07 22:01:40 GMT

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