#my guess is that one of the fontaines songs will win

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i was tagged by @partynthem ty rachel!! 🫶

i’m tagging @commoncrisis @nicoscheer @hesterias @aninterestingsynonym @bagholes

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Furina's constellations and their meanings!

Furina is known for having extremely long constellation names. Many know that all these names are taken from operas and songs, in character for Furina since she loves operas and arts in general. But… is there more behind it? Here are my thoughts on the constellations and how they fit her story and character!

C1: “Love is a rebellious bird that none can tame”, the lyrics are taken word by word from the opera “Carmen”. The lyrics of the opera often reference love as multiple things at the same time. “Love does not know law!”. “Love is far, you can wait for it”. “Love is a child”. The opera itself deals with proletarian life, immorality, lawlessness and the tragic death of the main character on stage. Furina’s love for Fontaine does not know law. She impersonated a god, which is punishable, but she still did for her people. Her love for her people cannot be tamed by law, or by anyone. She would choose to act out this painful act another 500 years if it meant that her people would be safe.

C2: “A woman adapts like duckweed in water”, the name is a stretched-out version of the opera “Rigoletto”, the original title of the opera is called “La maledizione” (The Curse). it deals with a curse that was put on the main character, and it only comes to fruition when Gilda (the female love interest) starts falling in love with him, he is then saved by her, sacrificing her own life for him. Sound familiar, no? A curse, a prophecy, a sacrifice. Furina fits all these themes in one way. Furina also, quite literally, adapts to any situation thrown at her (like duckweed in water).

C3: “My secret is hidden within me, no one will know my name“, the sentence is taken word by word from the opera “Turandot”. The opera follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot In order to win her hand in marriage, he must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in his execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to guess his name before dawn the next day, he will accept death. Furina often uses her God name “Focalor” when describing herself, to keep her image as a god. In the opera, the main character is glad that the princess doesn’t know his name. However, in Furina’s case, she is probably saddened by the fact that she can’t let anyone know her “real” name. Everyone knows the name “Furina” but do they really KNOW “Furina”?

C4: “They know not life, who dwelt in the netherworld not!”, is a retelling of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice and comes from “Orpheus in the Underworld” Orpheus in the play is portrayed as carefree, indifferent to the loss of his wives, even eager to escape the constraints of marriage. This might draw parallels with Furina who, to the people of Fontaine, appeared inactive in the face of Poisson's disasters.

C5: “His name I now know! It is…!“ the sentence is also taken word by word from the same opera as the C3, “Turandot”. The princess finally learns his name at the end of the final act. She uses the words “It is… love!” I 100% believe this is a reference to Neuvillette.  With her C3, where she is telling everyone that no one will ever know her name, and in this constellation, she seems weirdly happy about knowing someone’s name… or in better words: knowing someone. Seeing Neuvillette grow as a person and learn to love humans as much as she does. She now knows the true Neuvillette, the one who loves and adores humans. As she has a close relationship with Neuvillette, he can open himself up to her, he has no secrets that he must keep from her. Many fontainians have tried to get close to him, but all have been rejected. No one knows his full name, except for Furina. She, however, cannot ever let Neuvillette get to know the real her. Her secret is hidden within her.

C6: “hear me – let us raise the chalice of love!” is a duet from “La traviata” and is considered a brindisi (a song that encourages drinking). Now, this is going to sound lazy but I feel like this constellation name is something Furina would say out of the blue when she’s drinking alcohol. Clorinde once had to stop her from getting up on the table when she was drinking too much. I also want to mention that Furina, who has acted as someone she was not, may fall back into that character. It was also mentioned in Furina’s voice-overs that she sometimes cannot separate the real Furina with the “god” Furina.

These are my thoughts!

[no-tengo-ojos]

Hee hee hoo hoo! Music nerd time! In this edition, my favourite music award The Mercury Prize!

The Mercury Prize has been a long running award for British artists to determine the album of the year. Most recently the Leeds band English Teacher won the award for their 2024 album 'This Could be Texas' on 05/09/2024 (today).

I saw this band perform live at Truck Fest 2024 and met two of my greatest friends in the crowd so needless to say, this band means a lot to me and my group. This was also the first gig the band had played since they'd been nominated for the prize the day prior. And I mean it when I say that was the best gig of the year for me. The atmosphere of the crowd and the genuine joy from the band playing was just euphoric.

It was also during this gig that the lead singer, Lily Fontaine, climbed the barrier and held my hand during their song 'Nearly Daffodils' and chat, I have never felt gayer.

I first discovered English Teacher through the Netflix adaption of Lockwood & Co. which featured their song 'A55' which they also played during their set (which also became the first time I'd cried to live music). Like many fans of L&C, I clung to that OST after the show was unfortunately cancelled after just one series. English Teacher remain one of the few bands that are still performing (the loss of Joy Divison has taken its toll on all of us) so seeing 'A55' live was an emotional moment.

Their win is also especially important for fellow up and coming bands on the post-punk scene as they were up against the likes of Charli XCX's 'Brat' (named 'Album of the Summer') and The Last Dinner Party's 'Prelude to Ecstasy', both of which were favourites for the prize.

And though I've sung the praises of English Teacher here, I shouldn't forget to mention my other favourites from this years selection:

Nia Archives - Silence is Loud

ooooooh what an album. My introduction to Jungle and another Leeds act. Silence is loud has been the most influential album for me this year. It's introduced me to a genre that has so many facets (and no I definitely didn't find it by misclicking on the suggested search options on YouTube when looking for TMA animatics).

Charli XCX - Brat

I don't even need to say anything. Just watch the video for the 'Guess' re-release with Billie Eilish.

CMAT - Crazymad, For Me

I have had two CMAT gigs scheduled this year. One was cancelled because of a storm (fuck you English weather) and the other was cut short due to a storm (fuck you English weather). CMAT is an Irish country/pop act for the girls and the gays. Also the cowboys. Michael Walters would like her.

And that concludes the round up for now! See you next week for the VMAs!!!

xoxo

Lotte

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#77 Grease (1978)

Slick your hair back and grab your team jacket, we’re hand-jiving our way through Grease, a movie about bunch of hot, self-motivated ladies with their whole futures ahead of them settling for a bunch of schmucks.

Grease is a strange experience to relive as an adult, because it was (as I suspect with a lot of people) ever-present in my childhood, and I didn’t understand the great majority of references then.  This movie was intended as an 8th birthday present from my mother; I came home from school one day and the VHS was sitting on our kitchen countertop unwrapped.  I didn’t recognize it, so when I asked my mom what it was, she feigned confusion for about 10 seconds before she gave up and said, “I bought it for your birthday, I guess you get it early now.”  She promised me I’d like it when I popped it into the VHS player, and she wasn’t wrong.  I hadn’t watched this movie in over a decade and I still could recite the majority of the dialogue.

While this movie is a toned down significantly from the stage show, it is still fairly raunchy in parts.  What is kind of hilarious to me is Grease’s gradual shift in categorization over time as a “kids musical”.  In 5th grade, my sister played Sandy in her elementary school’s production of it.  I asked if she remembered any of the lines they changed to keep things “appropriate” (the Kidz Bopification, if you will) and she responded, “No, I just thought it was weird I had to go out and buy a sexy outfit.”  Conversely, my 5th grade play was about the history of America and I dressed up like Martha Washington.  I’ll never forget the 50 Nifty United States from 13 original colonies... SHOUT ‘em, SCOUT ‘em, TELL all about 'em, ONE BY ONE till we’ve given a day to every state in the U-S-A.  AL-A-bama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, CON-NE-TI-CUT...

Anyway, do I think it’s weird that a movie about a bunch of horny teenagers has become Baby’s First Adult Musical?  Sorta.  Not really.  I mean, the dudes act like children for the majority of this, so I’m not surprised, at least.  It had, for sure, turned me off from wanting to date high school dudes when I was in high school.  The high school girls, however... we’ll get there.

It’s the first day of school, and the oldest high school seniors I’ve ever seen are poised to take on their last year at Rydell High.  The “T” Birds and their very uncool matching jackets are reunited after a summer apart and their super-senior leader Kenickie, played by the late Jeff Conaway, regales the tale of lugging boxes to earn money for a sweet ride, which you could feasibly do back in the 1950s.  Danny, played by John Travolta, spent his summer getting action at the beach, which he eloquently describes as “flippin’”.  

Frenchy and her new neighbor Sandy rendezvous with the Pink Ladies, who have very cool matching jackets and the unabashed confidence to go with them.  Stockard Channing, who plays Rizzo, is turned off by Sandy’s pure, seemingly holier-than-thou persona, and is dismayed when Sandy starts to describe her sickly sweet summer romance.  Her interest is only piqued when Sandy mentions her hunky date was notorious playboy and Rizzo’s ex, Danny Zuko.  

Sidenote: When I was a child, I thought Sonny asked if her “jugs were bigger than her nets”.  I asked my mother what “nets” were, since I surmised that jugs meant breasts, and she didn’t know, which I thought was weird.  It wasn’t until THIS MOMENT that I realized he was asking if her jugs were bigger than Annette’s.  Who the fuck is Annette?  Like the Mickey Mouseketeer Annette?!  Rizzo sings about her later and I’m just like.. this revelation has lead to more questions than answers.

Rizzo hatches a plan to call Danny out on his shit and reunite Sandy with Danny at the school pep rally, as they know her boyfriend is an asshat.  He predictably reacts maturely; Not wanting to admit his previous story of getting fresh with some cute Australian girl down in the sand was somewhat hyperbolic, he plays it off like he doesn’t give a shit about her, reducing Sandy to tears.  Frenchy comforts Sandy like the supportive queen that she is and invites her to join the Pink Ladies at a sleepover.

Honestly, a Pink Ladies sleepover looks lit as fuck.  As a kid (and now, tbh) I was Jan, I wanted to be Marty, I wanted to fuck Rizzo, and I wanted Frenchy as my best friend.  I would totally be down to drink champagne, eat Twinkies and mutilate our body parts with needles.  Sandy is a bit of a late bloomer and reacts to these series of events by puking.  Rizzo decides to be a bit of a slag and make fun of Sandy for being an inexperienced virgin before shimming down a drainpipe to get laid by some jerk with a shitty car and a 6-year-old condom.

Sandy, whose night has done nothing to alleviate her heartbreak, sings a song about being in love with a coward.  Part of the deal Oliva Newton-John signed to be cast in this movie specified she have her own solo number, so “Hopelessly Devoted” was written and filmed after the rest of the movie had been completed.  This feel pretty obvious, since it gives off a very strong 1970s pop Best Original Song vibe.  When I was a kid, I used this song as a break to use the bathroom or grab a snack, but as an adult I find myself humming it every so often.

Speaking of contract-obligated solos, we’re treated to a Travolta-led “Greased Lightning”, which I always thought was weird, cause like, who is going to sing a song about their friend getting tit in their sweet car?  Jeff Conaway played Danny on Broadway, he deserved better...  Also, I’m CONVINCED this song got the Pop-Up Video treatment, but couldn’t find it online anywhere.  Otherwise, how the hell else would the fact that they thought John Travolta putting the saran wrap on his crotch was too racy live rent free in my head for like 20 years?

After encountering Sandy on a date with a jock, Danny decides he’s going to join a sports team to prove to her he can be a motivated team player.  Instead, he just physically assaults several members of his school, but it’s fine because he’s wearing a uniform when he does it.  This is enough to impress Sandy, as she accepts Danny’s invitation to the school dance.

The other gang members are going through their own drama, as Rizzo is sick of giving it up to Kenickie without receiving a modicum of respect.  

“A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card.  When you care enough to send the very best.”

Danny regresses and continues to act like a shithead to Sandy in front of her friends.

“I don’t like tea.” “You don’t have to drink tea!” “Well, I don’t like parents.”

Jan and Putzie begin an innocent and adorable romance, which proves it’s possible to start off a relationship with mutual respect, even if your friends make fun of you for it.

“I also think there’s more to you than just fat.” “...Thanks.”

I love this scene, there’s so many good lines.

Frenchy, who had dropped out of Rydell to pursue a career in cosmetology, is also in crisis as her stint in beauty school went very poorly.  After hours, she somehow hallucinates Frankie Avalon advising her to get her high school degree.

As a child, I was so proud of myself when I realized all these women played other roles in the movie, as if facial recognition was an important skill.

The day of the big dance finally arrives, as National Bandstand comes to Rydell High with roofie-wielding predator and television host Vince Fontaine.  Rizzo arrives with the leader of the rival gang, while Kenickie has his best girl, Cha Cha, as his date, because they are both very well-adjusted teenagers that know how to work through conflict by communicating and not using desperate attempts to make each other jealous.  Danny and Sandy are cutting up a rug until Sonny attempts to physically assault Sandy, and Danny just lets it happen because another one of his exes, Cha Cha, starts to dance with him while Sandy is rebuffing Sonny’s advances.  Cha Cha and Danny subsequently win the contest.  Honestly, this is so fucked up, I would have dropped Danny after this lapse of good judgement.

But no, Sandy still allows him to take her on a date to the drive-in, and it’s not until he elbows her in the boob and then tries to cop a feel in front of everybody that she finally blows him off.  Then he has the absolute gall to act emo about it because he’s afraid people will think he’s a loser.  Jesus Christ.

Kenickie is also hurting, as he discovers that Rizzo is pregnant and she doesn’t want anything to do with him, regardless of what being an unwed mother will do to her reputation.  He decides to process these emotions by racing Greased Lighting for pink slips, as he likes to live his life a quarter mile at a time.  Unfortunately, Danny steals Kenickie’s thunder (road) yet again, as he’s forced to take his place in the race because of a car door-related closed head injury.  Sandy is impressed by Danny’s driving skillz and decides to sex herself up for an unreliable and emotionally manipulative teenager.  Danny has a similar inclination and decides to put on a nice sweater to win Sandy back, which is something, I guess.  They declare they’re the one each other needs, oh yes indeed.

The school year ends, and all the boys end up paired with the girls.  Rizzo finds out she’s not pregnant and reunites with Kenickie?!  Marty ends up with Sonny even though he’s a handsy creep.  Danny and Sandy are just an mess with incompatible expectations of each other.  But at least Jan and Putzie and Frenchy and Doodie are fairly inoffensive.  The end.

This movie is great, even all these years later.  The entire cast is fantastic, even those with smaller bit parts.  I was *living* for the school staff, Principal McGee and Coach Calhoun especially.  Grease also jump started my lifelong love for Stockard Channing.  She’s great in The West Wing, but her part as Sister Husband in Where the Heart Is may be my favorite performance of hers.  I’ve watched that movie so many times I can’t even call it a guilty pleasure, I love it so much.

Olivia Newton-John wasn’t even sure she wanted to be in this movie and requested a screen test so she could see if she was good at acting.  John Travolta was enamored with her and helped convince Olivia she was perfect for the part, and he wasn’t wrong.  She gives such a strong performance as Sandy; I bought her transformation from clean-cut cinnamon roll to sexpot completely.  John Travolta was also unbelievably charming as Danny, and I found myself giggling at his line deliveries constantly.

The songs are also unbelievably catchy (albeit somewhat annoying after you’ve heard them 700 times).  Barry Gibb, my favorite Pras-adjacent composer, wrote the theme for the movie and it just bops so hard.  As a well-documented detractor of Doo Wop music, there’s not a whole lot else here for me, but that’s not going to blind me to the excellence of this soundtrack.  There is a reason this movie is revered as much as it is.  10/10, fun for the whole family, as long as the kids don’t understand the references.

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Yessss, ask gameeee. 1, 6, 7, 20, 22, 27?

1. what song makes you feel better? 

Absolutely by Ra Ra Riot for a genuinely happy song and then Liberty Belle by Fontaines D.C. for a song that gets me hype

2. say three nice things about yourself (three physical and three non-physical).

how dare you make me think positively!! (jk) for physical: i have a sweet tattoo, i like the freckle at the corner of my right eye, and i like my forearms (thanks, bouldering). for non-physical: i ran a marathon once! i’m not even gonna pretend to be humble, i have good and eclectic taste in music (EDIT: actually i’m gonna go ahead and promote my last.fm if any of you guys are on there: https://www.last.fm/user/HardcorePanda). and lastly, i dunno i guess i’m good at languages

7. what color brings you peace?

this is probably weird but grey

20. what do you want most in the world right now?

on like, a world level, for biden to win the election by a landslide. on a personal level, to somehow kick my procrastination habit

22. what would you say to your future self?

relax, bro!

27. which character would you want to be?

oh okay this is difficult because i (like so many of us lol) project really hard onto Matt Murdock but i don’t want his life at all no thx. so i guess i don’t actually have an answer for this one? i don’t really do wish fulfillment type fantasies so much

thanks for the ask!

[jafreitag]

2020

On January 1, 2020, I went to LNHQ. The holiday party had happened a few days earlier – a sorta-epic “booze cruise” with Lana Del Rey off the Catalina coast. Everybody nursed hangovers on flights back home, and then bugged off to celebrate their new years with their people.

The office was spotless – just a few dust motes floating across the afternoon sunlight in the conference room. I grabbed a piece of chalk and wrote “What if…” on the green board. It was intended as a turn-the-page talking point. OM and I had had a sit-down after we got back from Cali. Good talk, honestly. He’s well-versed in stuff that I do not understand, and he’s driving the proverbial bus as the new LN CEO. Lotta heartfelt questions from him, lotta heartfelt idks from me. “You gotta…” and “Yeah, I suck at that, but what about…” Some bourbon later, we adjourned. “Love you, dude” and “love you back, man.” Let’s meet next week and ok.

So that’s why I was there. What are we doing? What if… What if we actually try hard? What if ECM keeps killing it on Instagram? What if Jane and Trevor come back? What if we move to a new location, and the corporate and content wings find a new synergy? What if all of the sponsorships pan out? And O’s settlement with Adidas? Sky’s the limit, right? Let your imagination wander. I mean, what if Fiona Apple puts out a new album in 2020, and it’s not just great, but better than The Idler Wheel, which was the best album of 2012?

Seriously. What if?

Or what if the entire world breaks?

That wasn’t in my head back then.

It’s December now. And we’re in a global pandemic, which is getting worse (or at least not getting measurably better) every day. This year has been indescribably difficult for all of us, particularly the ones personally affected by Covid-19. And it has been difficult for businesses across every sector, particularly entertainment. Seen a show lately? Nope? Me, neither. At the beginning of the summer, I paid Laura Marling to watch a stream of her performance at Union Chapel in London. Seemed cool then, seems irrelevant now.

We can’t help artists/bands, really, until we can see them again. And who knows when that will be? Next summer? Next fall? Maybe 2022 before we all feel safe in massive crowds again (even with masks)? Maybe never? Until then, we have streaming services. And … woof. That’s an Apple/Spotify cart that I’d prefer not to upend, mainly because it benefits me, but it’s worth some words.

I’m a Spotify person. My home team is comprised of six Spotify people. We pay, collectively, $14.99/month to stream almost any music ever recorded and released. That’s around $2.50 per person per month. Pretty good deal, right? For sure. Here’s the problem: Spotify pays $0.003 per stream. That’s 1/3 of a penny. If you’re a Zeppelin or a Beatle or a Stone, that’s just a nice little dividend. (Keith is like, “Hey, baby, I love Spot-ify. I bought this sweet fedorah with that check.”) If you’re somebody else, somebody less established in the Rock-royalties pantheon, you’re probably not buying a hat. You’re probably hoping that Spotify might, might, pick up your next cup of coffee – or one at the end of the year, I don’t know how that works.

Spotify does this year-end Wrapped thing. You get a weird Snapchat/Instagram video that tells you stuff. Your most listened-to artist/band, your also-rans, etc. You also get some pretty sweet virtual (and unearned) affirmation.

My win was this.

911 seems good. It’s better than 11. The green-dotify didn’t specify whom those new artists were, which sucks, but I have a decent idea. And I’m guessing that many of those artists have Bandcamp pages, and I didn’t visit any of those. Actually, that’s not true. I did visit the Car Seat Headrest page because Will put out three different iterations of the new record on streaming, cd, and vinyl. It was mostly the same – alternate sequences and some alternate versions of certain tracks. The alternate versions weren’t on Bandcamp. You had to buy all three formats to get the whole record. Or you had to be ok with the iteration that you got. Or you could just find the alternate versions on YouTube. Sure, they wouldn’t be on your phone, but you got to hear them.

That’s not me being petty or cheap. I could’ve bought the cd and vinyl iterations. And I could’ve bought alot of music on Bandcamp, but I couldn’t have bought 911-new-artists worth. How many could I have bought? Not sure. How would I have decided? Not sure. I’m glad that I discovered that many sounds, and I’m concerned that most of those sounds were produced by real people struggling to create in this challenging (intentionally undersold the adjective there, but “terrible” and “horrible” seemed trite) environment. I’m more glad than concerned, if you follow the dichotomy. And I’m not happy about it. Having identified the problem, however, I’m flummoxed about a solution.

I listened to alot of music in 2020. #WFH #FTW (And two hashtag sentence fragments make a sentence. I just checked the LN style manual. Jane said ok.)

Alessandro Deljavan is an Italian pianist, who was born a few months before I graduated high school. He recorded Erik Satie’s piano works. My best friend and I listened to that alot this year – she calls it “sleeping music.” Miles Davis, obv. Early-covid, I made a chronologically-tight playlist of his pre-Columbia material. Mid-covid, I started a chronologically-tight and still-unfinished playlist of his fusion material. Jenny Lin? I think that’s a holdover from last year, when sleeping music was her Chopin’s Nocturnes. CSH was my lawnmowing soundtrack. Daniel Baremboim? No idea, maybe I hit his Mendelssohn’s Leider ohne Worte too many times during the days.

Minutes listened and top genre are what I want to talk about, real quick, before I get list-y. 115,891 minutes is 1,931 or so hours, and 80.5 or so days. I listened to two and a half months straight of music this year. That’s not a brag or even a humble brag. It’s a fact. And most of that (trust me here, I ran my ass off to playlists) was Indie Rock – the aforementioned “new artists.” How can I help them, besides streaming their amazing work over and over and over, and championing them here? Shouting indirectly at Spotify on social media seems unlikely to change a flawed system. Anybody with more constructive ideas can share them below the line.

Ok, the list.

I did it. I broke the unspoken rule (nobody gets #1 twice), and I’m ok with it. 2020 was a unique year. Up top, that’s Fiona from a Zoom call over the summer. She didn’t really know about Liner Notes, but she was willing to talk while walking her dogs. I wasn’t sure that Fetch the Bolt Cutters would be the album of the year at that point, but it was a nice chat. Tbh, I struggled to finalize the list because any of the Top 10 could’ve been Top. The margins were very fine. (And fwiw, I may tweak things a bit over the next few weeks.) Links to Spotify. And COME ON, Spotify. Pay artists more, and pay indie artists even more than that.

Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud

This Is the Kit – Off Off On

HAIM – Women in Music Pt. III

En Attendant Ana – Juillet

Samia – The Baby

Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song

Adrianne Lenker – songs / instrumentals

Porridge Radio – Every Bad

SAULT – Untitled (Black Is) / Untitled (Rise)

Taylor Swift – folklore / evermore

The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form

Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open

Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

Lomelda – Hannah

Fleet Foxes – Shore

Soccer Mommy – color theory

Beach Bunny – Honeymoon

Retirement Party – Runaway Dog

Shopping – All or Nothing

Ela Minus – acts of rebellion

The Strokes – The New Abnormal

Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death

Kate NV – Room for the Moon

Dehd – Flower of Devotion

Gum County – Somewhere

Bad Moves – Untenable

Jeff Tweedy – Love Is the King

Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter

Autechre – SIGN

Four Tet – Sixteen Oceans

Sorry – 925

Dream Wife – So When You Gonna…

Fenne Lily – BREACH

Margaret Glaspy – Devotion

Jordana – Something to Say to You

Hinds – The Prettiest Curse

Gorillaz – Song Machine: Season One

Tame Impala – The Slow Rush

Tycho – Simulcast

Ólafur Arnalds – some kind of peace

Ezra Feinberg – Recumbent Speech

Slow Pulp – Moveys

Young Jesus – Welcome to Conceptual Beach

Bartees Strange – Live Forever

U.S. Girls – Heavy Light

Empress Of – I’m You’re Empress Of

Charli XCX – how i’m feeling now

Oliver Coates – skins n slime

LN is on hiatus for a little while.

More soon.

JF

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[break-the-frozenheart]

1-50 bitch

LMAO OKAY

1). motor boat Michelle visage or finger bang santino rice?

I’m worried I would be smothered my michelle’s tits so i’ll poke Santino’s chocolate starfish

2). have you ever masturbated to a queen? who?

Can’t say that I have, but I’m pretty sure Sasha Velour’s Cellophane lip sync gave me an orgasm

3). which queen would you let spit in your mouth?

Latrice 

4). who do you think has a bigger dick, sharon or detox?

Detox probably

5). jinkx/alaska sex tape or adore/bianca?

an adore/bianca tape would be both adorable and hilarious so them

6). which season 7 queen do you think would be the best in bed

Kennedy because I bet that bitch is kinky and flexible

7). who’s ass would you eat from season 4?

Dida Ritz 

8). drink willams puke or drink katya’s sweat?

Katya’s sweat without a doubt

9). which stereotypically “fishy” queen would you fuck in drag?

I would fuck the shit out of Farrah Moan

10). be adore delano’s toilet or courtney acts cum rag?

Country Act’s cum rag because I bet she has those soft little fairy nuts

11). get pissed on by Roxxxy andrews, or listen to Serena cha cha talk about theater school for seven hours straight?

I’d totally let Roxxxy piss on me if her pubes had a wig reveal

12). which judge would you murder to bring back an eliminated queen from any season, and who would the queen be?

Can it be a guest judge? Honestly I’d trade any of them for Trixie’s commentary

13). out of vicky vox and rhea litre, you have to let one on the show and you have to brutally beat the other one to death, who do you choose for what?

I love Vicky Vox too much to kill her

14). who’s panties would you sniff from season 3

Raja’s without a doubt

15). you have three cocktails, one is laced with bleach, the other two are fine. you cant tell them apart, you have to pick two queens you love to risk the lives of, and one queen you dislike to pray gets the bleach, who do you pick?

I hope that Mrs. Kasha Davis and Tempest survive and Derrick Barry fucking chokes

16). trixie mattel is running late for a show, you have the opportunity to kidnap her, get her to the show or kill her, what do you do?

Get her to the show wtf???

17). alaska and sharon are fighting to the death, sharon has fake metals on and is having a bad allergic reaction, and alaska has long fake nails on which are hard to do things with, who wins?

Prolly Alaska

18). who would you let shit on your chest, manila luzon or raven?

RAVEN

19). you get to a show by your fave queen! but another one of your fave queens wont let you through, you must kill them, which one of your faves do you kill, and who is the queen you are killing them for?

I would probably kill Sharon to get to Trixie Mattel

20). fuck, avoid, marry, kill: delta, manila, raja and carmen

Fuck Raja, marry Manila, avoid Delta, and kill Carmen

21). would you rather watch alyssa edwards slowly slather her back rolls in oil, or watch jinkx monsoon pick food out of her teeth?

I’d pay to watch alyssa later her back rolls

22). which one of your least fave queens would you hate fuck?

I’d hate fuck Phi Phi tbh

23). what’s a weird/fucked up drag race ship that you enjoy?

It’s not weird, but I fucking love shea and sasha

24). watch violet react to her sex tape or watch detox react to hers?

Violet

25). if you cut off your arm with a saw, you can re-pick every winner from each season, do you do it? who do you pick for each season?

Hell nah. I love all the winners so far (even tyra)

26). watch bianca fist courtney or watch willam top another queen?

WILLAM TOP

27). which queen could piss in your mouth and you’d be cool with it?

I’d let Sasha do anything to me

28). the word you associate with pandora boxx, the word you associate with chad Michaels and the name of your first pet. combine them, whats your new drag name?

cunty brilliant specks

29). marry mimi imfurst or a goat?

i could get more use out of the goat

30). get on drag race and go home first, or lick the sweat off jasmine masters forehead? 

go home first 

31). you find porn of your fave queen, are you really fucking happy or really fucking upset?

it depends on the queen honestly

32). punch rupaul in the face or accept his choices for season 7

punch rupaul without a doubt

33). become as good a dancer as Alaska, or become as good a comedian as alyssa edwards :/

I already dance as well as alaska so her i guess

34). smell ginger minj’s armpits or lick her left ass cheek?

ASS CHEEK ASS CHEEK

35). you can run into raja’s closet with a huge bag and take as many clothes as you want, but shes running after you with a knife, risk it and fight her off, or just go get clothes elsewhere?

I would raid her closet for shit and let her kill me. that’s my fantasy

36). would you cut off your nipples to become your fave queens best friend, or no?

TOTALLY

37). who is fishier, recent jade jolie or recent Michelle visage? (seriously it seems easy but think about it)

both

38). you can hack any queens twitter and start a lie about them, who’s the queen and what is the lie?

Jaymes didn’t go home first

39). you get 1 dick pick from a queen of your choice, who?

Bob

40). you find a time machine and it can take you back to any season of the race, you have the ability to help one queen that didn’t win, who do you help and how would you help them?

I wanna help Jaymes honestly and fix her damn paint and put her in a better shoe

41). worst song made by any drag queen (including queens that weren’t a contestant on the race)

Can Chris Crocker count? because him

42). are you a pro stalker? think of your favourite drag racer, can you name a friend they have that isn’t popular or a drag racer?

Well I know Trixie and Jaymes were friend before she got on DR, and I have a friend who does drag who knows a ton of queens

43). fuck, marry, avoid, kill: Alaska thunderfuck 5000, honey mahogany, nicole paige brooks and rebecca glasscock

Fuck rebecca, marry alaska, avoid honey, and kill npb

44) cure cancer or bring back katya?

Cure cancer for cynthia lee fontaine because katya does better than most winners

45). what queens from any season would you love to see lip sync for their life naked, and what song would they preform to?

I wanna see Bianca try to lip sync just because

46). erase everyones memory of lil pound cake so that no one remembers anything about lil pound cake, or erase everyones memory of ornacia?

I would sell lil poundcake to satan for one corn chip. Ornacia has better memes

47). get given head by your fave queen or eat pizza w/ them

why not both?

48).  who would you have an orgy with rolaskatox or the heathers

heathers

49). become pearl’s personal punching post, or punch pearl in the face

i’d punch pearl for sending trixie home

50). would you fuck someone in the old untucked lounge or the new untucked lounge?

old.

[framing-the-picture]

My 2017 Oscar Picks

If I were to choose the winners (and, let’s be real, I’d probably do a better job than a lot of the actual voters given their history of not even caring about most of these films), here’s what my choices in each of the categories would be given what got nominated.

BEST PICTURE: MOONLIGHT MOONLIGHT MOONLIGHT

BEST DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

BEST ACTOR (this category really sucks this year): Denzel Washington in Fences

BEST ACTRESS (3/5 fitting nominees, also where is Annette Bening??): Ruth Negga in Loving

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (all decent nominees except Jeff Bridges, seriously, why nominate him again?): Mahershala Ali in Moonlight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (again, all good picks except Nicole Kidman, I’d have liked to see a Greta Gerwig nom here instead): Viola Davis in Fences

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (decent noms here, I guess): Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (probably the strongest “main” category): Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM (haven’t seen Zucchini or Red Turtle yet, but hoping Moana stands a shot here too): Kubo and the Two Strings

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (all I’ve seen is my pick, but if The Salesman wins, that’s cool too): Toni Erdmann

BEST DOCUMENTARY (another really stacked category, would really love to see a few of these win): O.J.: Made in America

SKIPPING BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT AND THE OTHER SHORT AWARDS BECAUSE I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY YET

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (a Mica Levi win would be cool too, also why the fuck is Passengers nominated???): Nicolas Britell, Moonlight

BEST ORIGINAL SONG (does La La Land really need two slots here???): “How Far I’ll Go,” Moana

BEST SOUND EDITING (my pick was the only one where I thought the sound editing was noticeably great): Sylvian Bellemare, Arrival

BEST SOUND MIXING (same as above): Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye, Arrival

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN (all seem like good picks except again, WHY PASSENGERS???): Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh, Hail, Caesar!

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (this is, like, MY award... my favorite award... and all seem like good picks except for Lion?? wasn’t super visually impressive of a movie): James Laxton, Moonlight

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: I’ve only seen Suicide Squad among these nominees and I’m not gonna pick it anyway, so... uh... Star Trek Beyond, I guess??

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: I’ve only seen Jackie and La La Land, and Jackie had some DAMN good costuming, so yeah... Madeline Fontaine, Jackie

BEST FILM EDITING (another of MY categories... but this year, it’s a category where I only really think 3 picks were worthy): Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon, Moonlight (GET JOI HER OSCAR AND MAKE HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (weirded out by Deepwater Horizon being here, but... ok... I guess): Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff, Kubo and the Two Strings

THE SPECIAL FRAMING THE PICTURE AWARD FOR “WHY THE FUCK DID THE ACADEMY LOVE THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE SO MUCH”: Hacksaw Ridge (get fucked, Mel)

If you wanna see what my ideal awards ceremony for the last year in film would look like, I did my own little awards thing over here too! Check it out! It’s the only “awards show” this year where John Goodman, Anna Rose Holmer, Jeremy Saulnier, Kate Lyn Sheil, and Bi Gan were all nominated!