#music at the marina

[annabelle--cane]

sometimes I read a radioactively bad take and just sit there like "not only do you not understand this story but you fundamentally do not understand how stories work in general, and you have never considered that your discord with every piece of fiction you come across could possibly be a problem on your end"

[thedaveandkimmershow]

There's no question I've lost track of time.

Why?

Because it feels like more time has passed since The Little Lies Music at the Marina show in Everett, Thursday July 20.

Like, waaaaaay more time.

It wasn't only a show, of course. We spent time hanging out with Linzy before and after. We spent time hanging out with friends during and after.

We worked, of course, that Thursday as well as the following day, Friday. Then Saturday was The Little Lies at the Bite of Seattle and Sunday was Midnight High at the Bite of Seattle, both days involving a fair bit of travel logistics and walking.

They were all shows and social events during which we got to hang out with fellow fans with whom we normally don't get to spend time. So there was a lot more experience in these experiences.

Then Monday we're back at work. Then Tuesday we're working from home. Then Tuesday evening and night Kimmer's packing our bags and coordinating with our cat-sitter while I'm at the premiere of a short film I cut for a team that competed in the 48 Hour Film Project a coupla weekends before.

By the time I'm home, it's pretty close to 12:30AM, Wednesday the 26th. By the time we're ready to sleep, we're edging passed 1:30AM 'cause we just shoehorned an episode of Madam Secretary in there. 😊

Later the same morning, my alarm goes off at 4:50AM 'cause a more serious alarm'll go off at 5AM and just the threat of that alarm wakes me up to make sure it never happens. The early alarm's because we've gotta be outta the house between 615 and 630, I've got a little tech packing to do, coffee and tea to make, Kimmer to wake up, then Kimmer to actually wake up, then showers all around, getting dressed, gathering up our travel gear, checking the house is good to go (everything locked, appliances off), summoning a ride share, exiting the house, locking the door, watering some plants with the garden hose (believe it or not—that was Kimmer), until our ride arrives.

640AM, by the way, is the moment we're officially on our way. Fifteen minutes later we're at the airport. Four hours later we're in Orange County.

Interestingly, the experience feels more like commuting rather than straight up air travel. The difference I think is that I associate SeaTac with big trips, huge adventures. Even just getting to SeaTac and being at SeaTac is its own adventure. Not so with Paine Field which is more, well, as I said...

A commute. 🤔

And then even from SNA we're only fifteen minutes from family. So being at home during a sunny-ish week then being in Irvine during a very sunny week is a fairly seamless experience. In a way, it's like we're putting less travel and effort into getting from here to there and, because of that, there's a time or two when I have to remind myself that we're not in Kansas anymore.

And this.

Aside from the seamlessness of the traveling, our lifestyle isn't massively different in Irvine with family than it is at home with ourselves. For example, landing in Orange County, our first stop's picking up groceries at Trader Joe's, a very home thing to do. And then once we're settled in, Kimmer's doing her online mental health gig with clients for a few hours. Once she's done, it's dinner out with family (Happy Hour!) at Brü Grill & Market then hanging out with family again until lights out.

Thursday we're on our way, along with Kimmer's nephew, to visit her aunt Jacquie in the courtyard of Jacquie's memory care community while Kimmer's cousin works on Jacquie's home. Afterward, a stop at the local internet service provider for a hardware swap on top of a galling forty-five minutes wait. After that... some work at Jacquie's house continuing our efforts to thin it out. And then, finally, we head off to that fantastic restaurant at the Soboba Casino Resort for tacos and beer (and one Coka Cola 😉).

After leaving the restaurant, one or more of us (excluding the driver) immediately falls asleep for the 90 minute drive back to Irvine after having spent most of the day in temperatures averaging 103 degrees. The high being 105. The low being 100. 🤯

Once home, we flatline for an hour or so before deciding dinner at the Wood Ranch Restaurant at the Irvine Spectrum Center is our best play.

Because meat, you know?

Lots 'n lots 'n lots 'n lots...

Of meat.

Holy Mother of God all that meat. 🥹

It's all superbly delicious whether as a brisket, bbq chicken, tri-tip steak or literally anything else on the menu.

Interestingly, later on, due to a promise Kimmer makes to her nephew, we hit Target (at the other end of the mall) for a box of brownie mix that I subsequently turn into actual brownies we get to eat before bed.

Okay.

So then Friday's a work day for Kimmer. Back online for client appointments and then after hours of that...

Charting.

Always with the charting.

Six-thirty in the evening, Kimmer's cousin gracefully offers us the use of his Miata. You break it, you buy it I think were his exact words. So we refamiliarize ourselves with driving a stick by driving around the nearby neighborhoods then, after that, driving the parking lots surrounding eight warehouses about a mile away after which we head off in random directions until we see a sign that reads Laguna so we turn toward the coast as the sun's on its way down. 😎

Now, the way our improvised route works out is that we eventually hit the Pacific Coast Highway by Dana Point. From there we headed north along the highway into the town of Laguna Beach where we slip off the PCH, heading inland along Laguna Canyon Road during full-blown nighttime. Once we're back, we indulge a coupla episodes of Madame Secretary on the couch... followed by a rare early-to-bed of ten-thirty.

We go right to sleep.

It's hard to imagine, by the way, but this was our third day in Orange County because our first two days felt like four. In the best way possible but still.

It's like we just experienced four days. At least.

Also, the bit of work Kimmer was doing, charting especially, felt like part of our home routine. Making our visit a light variation of home life... only with hotter temps, more sun, the desert, and the Pacific Ocean. 🌞

And then finally...

Today. Our last day... although it feels like any other day. Beginning with charting in the morning followed by jumping into the Miata around 130 to hit up the local GoodWill and the super glitzy GoodWill next door to that followed by Sprouts across the street all of which, as I pointed out before, are variations on our home routine.

Except the Miata, of course. 😕

Now, remember how I told you I made brownies Thursday night? Well, Kimmer's nephew was taking off for the weekend Friday morning and forgot to take the leftover brownies Kimmer set aside for him in the freezer.

So we ate them ourselves. 🤨

Kimmer got to thinking this morning, though, that we ought to make a new batch to leave behind for him which is how we ended up at Sprouts after which we drove over to Woodbury Town Center where we scored ice cream sandwiches we enjoyed out on the patio. Then we scored a coffee, an iced chai tea latte, and a cup of ice cubes from Starbucks across the parking lot and then set ourselves up in an impromptu outdoors office for the next hour-and-a-half.

It really was a lovely experience even if Kimmer was using that time to chart.

When we were done at Woodbury, we headed back, put the Miata back in its home garage and immediately indulged cold showers because we each finished the afternoon a bit hot and sticky. And not in a good way. 😉

Kimmer's already done most of the packing earlier in the day so there's not much to do but hang out in the living room for a bit of writing, charting, and indulging the smoothies Kimmer whipped up for us.

7PM we're out the door with our travel gear.

730 we're checking in at John Wayne and TSAing.

745 we're at Vino Volo continuing a tradition that's no two times old. ☺️

815 we just grabbed seats at the gate when our name's called and we think we're in trouble.

817 we're informed we've been upgraded to First Class.

Dang that was a most excellent plot twist. 🤯

And by 9 we're off the ground, winging our way home, experiencing the surprise of all the goodies that come with having seats in First Class. It shouldn't be a surprise... but it is. It really really is.

😁😁😁

Right now, it's six after eleven and we're descending through the Pacific Northwest night sky to Paine Field. We're sitting in seats 1C and 1D, literally the front of the class.

We'll be out the door soon. Grab our checked bag on the way to the transit center to catch our ride. Probably home again around quarter to midnight.

And when we get home?

We'll put some of our stuff away. One of us will feed the cat. And then we'll catch an episode of Madame Secretary.

Maybe two.

😉

So yeah. Along the way... I lost track of time. I lost track of time as all these events from Music at the Marina through our commute home from Orange County spread out over 9 days and blurred together. 😳

Ultimately, my future brain won't accept the fact that these events went back to back to back as we experienced them. My future brain will probably place these events in their own weeks, perhaps even separated by at least a week. Maybe it'll even "remember" these four days as straddling the end of July, beginning of August, with Linzy's gigs closer to the beginning of July. After all, these experiences couldn't possibly have fit into a touch over one week, could they???

Well... they just did.

☺️

[wamija]

[koreankitkat]

They're so (tenta)cool

[zendeyas]

Marina – music video Primadonna

[sophsun1]

Marina and the Diamonds | Primadonna

[bobcatblahs]

I was asked this and told to pass it along <3: put 5 songs you listen to, post it, then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers :]

First off- I’m one of your favorite followers? 🥹

Songs that are my favs currently are, in no particular order…

Good People- Mumford & Sons ft. Pharrell

Just My Type- Jeremy Renner

Man’s World- Marina

Too Sweet- Hozier

Sun to Me-Zach Bryan

Thank youuuu

@mylifeiscomics @deardiary17 @chaoticrosesimp @joelslastofus @five-potatoes-high @nb-n0v4 @thelibraryofalexandriastillburns @cowgirljol @hotspace39 @doctordiscosbignaturals @tatennant

[ghostorbz]

rawr x3 and stuff happy 2014 or something

+ original quality

AUGZHAHXH I'm probably gonna make one of those uh art progress thingies I keep seeing they look fun :3

[hpheisler]

ebb & flow (face the dawn ver.)

off the hook ft. POPY & ROSE

demo v0.1 🐙

edit: full version... released!

[jel-jel-jel]

it's marinacht-ober. time for bad end

[sea-talk]

"I called my manager in April 2011 and said 'Hello. Can I pretend to be a totally different person?' He said 'No. You cannot.'"

- Marina and The Diamonds a.k.a ♡ ELECTRA HEART ♡

[crybabiesinbadlands]

2015 Tumblr music CDs 💿💕

[thedaveandkimmershow]

I won't lie, I marvelled a little as Linzy's festival gigs approached on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. I marvelled a little because, as the weekend approached, I was telling people about each of those gigs.

That's not the only reason, though. I was also telling people about the upcoming screening of our 48 Hour Film Project that took place last night at the Uptown Cinema in Seattle. So I wound up promoting both our professional endeavors simultaneously.

We weren't the only two in our family with big events happening around the same time like planets aligning. You see, while the gigs were happening, as the world premiere of the film I cut approached, Kimmer officially applied to a doctorate program at her alma mater. And, by the time the screening happened, she was officially accepted.

The doctorate program?

Doctor of Science in Integrative Health from the American College of Healthcare. Sciences.

So there it is.

We all three had a very busy week.

😊

[tervaneula]

I was listening to this and almost gave in to the blues (ha) but Bitty saved me (and saved Leonardo)

@beeceit I'm sincerely thanking you for Bitty omg

[sage-nebula]

"Suffer No Fools" - Shiver vs. Marina Analysis

It's been a few days since "Suffer No Fools" released, but I wanted to go ahead and release my analysis of Shiver's and Marina's verse since that's the one that has caused the most discussion within the fandom. I've seen a lot of debate over Marina's section in particular, with people unsure whether she was being sincere or sarcastic, and I think the actual answer is a little more complicated than one or the other, at least with regards to the first couplet of lines both she and Shiver sing. Of course, people are free to interpret this song however they wish, but after seeing numerous interpretations I personally didn't vibe with, I just wanted to put my own out there, breaking it down line by line.

So! Here we go.

Exchange 1:

Shiver: "Your haunting voice -- there's no escape. How nice it must be for your fans." Marina: "You're far too kind! I love your vibe. I can learn so much from your style."

Analyzing from dialogue only:

Shiver is insulting Marina's voice by calling it haunting and saying there is no escape, insinuating she wishes there was one. She says how nice it must be for Marina's fans, again implying that she isn't one.

Marina says that she loves Shiver's vibe, which on the surface could be a compliment, but given the context (a music battle) it could also be a Mean Girl "ooh I love your [thing] :)" passive-aggressive drawing-attention-to-something-ugly insult. More direct though, is the "I can learn so much from your style"; you can learn what not to do from someone just as much as you can learn what to do from someone. Marina's engaging in plausible deniability here.

HOWEVER. Lyrics are NOT the only thing that need to be analyzed from this first verse, which is arguably the MOST important exchange between these two. Instead, we need to look at how these lines are delivered.

Shiver is singing in a traditional Japanese folk singing style, specifically a style based on Shima-uta, which her voice actress has a background singing in. Unfortunately, I don't know the actual term for this style of singing, only that it's not kakegoe, something Shiver also does that is different from this. Anyway, in these lines specifically Shiver is singing in her Shima-uta style, a style that she has presumably been practicing since she was a small child, a style that is probably culturally significant to the Hohojiro clan. Singing in this style is not something that just anyone can do. It's completely different from singing in a (for lack of a better word) "western" style. The way you breathe is completely different. The way you incorporate your voice into your breathing is completely different. So by singing in this style, which Shiver has been doing practically her whole life and which, presumably, only she of the four there can do, Shiver is FLEXING on Marina regardless of what lyrics she chooses to sing.

But then Marina, who grew up under the domes in Inkadia, who presumably has never heard Shima-uta before she started listening to Deep Cut and heard Shiver sing, who presumably has had absolutely no training whatsoever on this style of song . . . mimics it perfectly and flexes on Shiver right back.

Could Marina's words to Shiver be interpreted as passive-aggressive in turn? Yes. But does it matter? No, not really. Because in this first verse, Marina's ACTUAL comeback is to take the style of singing that Shiver has been perfecting her entire life and throw it right back in her face despite having never (as far as we or Shiver know) practiced it herself. Shiver was flexing by presumably doing something Marina couldn't do, only for Marina to do it flawlessly, being every bit as divine with a voice so fine as Pearl said she was previously. Marina says "I love your vibe" so she takes it. Marina says "I have so much to learn from you" but does she really, when she can already do exactly what Shiver can, and has, just now, right in front of her?

And Shiver noticed, hence:

Exchange 2:

Shiver: "You remind me of my neighbor's little daughter . . . What's that saying? 'Octo see, octo do.'" Marina: "Glad you approve -- your praise has left me moved. Thanks to your notes, I'll find my groove!"

Shiver drops the Shima-uta singing, because now there's no point. Marina can also sing in that style, so it's no longer a flex. Shiver lost ground on that one, so instead we're back to the same (again, for lack of a better word) "regular" style of singing that everyone else is using. For that reason, we can go back to analyzing purely based on the words alone.

Shiver is calling Marina a copycat, essentially, because Marina copied her Shima-uta singing style in the previous verse (hence why Shiver had to drop it, as previously noted). Marina then gives her "glad you approve -- your praise has left me moved" . . . basically noting that by Shiver accusing her of copying, Shiver is saying that Marina -- someone who just tried the singing style off the cuff right there on the stage for the first time -- was just as good as Shiver, someone who has trained in that style her whole life. The audience saw for themselves that Marina was able to emulate the style, but Shiver saying, "you copied me!" is basically admitting that Marina was just as good as her in Shiver's own eyes, and Shiver is a pro. That's Shiver's aggravation handing Marina the win and Marina smiling wide as she accepts it.

Exchange 3:

Shiver: "Oh, look at the time. Isn't it getting late?" Marina: "Not at all! I could go on like this all night long."

This one doesn't even really need an analysis. For all that she prides herself on being "so cool even sharks call her cold-blooded," Shiver is known for being easily irritated and riled when she's losing due to her competitive nature. Marina successfully got under her skin, and this is her trying to end the battle fast because she didn't have any further comebacks. Marina, meanwhile, gives the classic "I could go on all night" because she's not riled at all, and is instead perfectly comfortable in this environment, knows what she's doing, and has had the upper hand from the start.

It goes back to another post I made about Experience vs. Inexperience. Shiver and Frye are still new idols, whereas Pearl and Marina have been at this for a long while. And while off the stage Marina is a sweet, kind, gentle person who will go out of her way to help others, and can sometimes be a little spacey or naive, she's also a 23-year-old literal genius who has been in the music industry for years now and knows full well what a rap / music battle is and knows her way around a stage. Personally, I found it to be a little infantilizing to insinuate that she "didn't realize Shiver was insulting her," when not only do I think she knew full well, but also she was the one with the upper hand not because of sick burns (that's Pearl's department), but because of sheer innate musical talent.

But those are just my thoughts! Everyone else is free to have their own.

[rahabq]