Does anyone else who feels disconnected from their culture/heritage have that one music artist (or artist in general) who is the one way that you feel comfortable connecting with your culture/heritage?
Mine is Nahko Bear, I grew up on his music and he’s one of the main ways I feel connected to my heritage as Native American (although I am white-passing, which is the main reason I have a hard time feeling comfortable connecting to my heritage, for personal reasons, none too angsty but still very much there)
He’s also one of my comfort artists. And his music has also affected how I see things and the world, the intake of his music and the lyrics in them greatly affected my views on the world, it’s pretty fuckin’ cool actually how media, even just lyrics in a song, can affect our views, and beliefs, and who we are as people :]
Just because I’m curious, who are you top 5 iTunes or Spotify artists?
Oooh! Thanks for asking this! For me it’s:
Jeff Buckley, Nahko Bear and Medicine for the People, SZA, Ray LaMontagne (‘Trouble’ and ‘Gossip in the Grain’ albums especially), and Troy Sivan! Omar Apollo is sliding in at six but I love him so much, I'd hate to see him left off.
★ ⸻ WHAT'S YOUR PHONE WALLPAPER?: a xenomorph from alien in a yoga/zen pose.
★ ⸻ LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO?: Aloha Ke Akua by Nahko and Medicine for the people
★ ⸻ CURRENTLY READING?: How to write science fiction and fantasy by Orson Scott Card
★ ⸻ LAST MOVIE?: The Thing (the prequel on netflix)
★ ⸻ LAST SHOW?: Jackie Chan Adventures (fount it on amazon and had to watch it for nostalgia's sake)
★ ⸻ WHAT ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?: Black jeans, a deadpool graphic tee, and my berried alive hoodie.
★ ⸻ HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5'5 (I am a shortie U_U)
★ ⸻ PIERCINGS / TATTOOS? right ear pierced, no tattoos yet.
★ ⸻ GLASSES / CONTACTS?: Glasses.
★ ⸻ LAST THING YOU ATE?: chicken noodle soup.
★ ⸻ FAVORITE COLOR(S)?: silver/chrome, black, red, blue, green
★ ⸻ CURRENT OBSESSION?: writing the second draft of my book
★ ⸻ DO YOU HAVE A CRUSH RIGHT NOW?: a celebrity crush on Jamie Campbell Bower maybe, but no, not really.
★ ⸻ FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER?: David 8 from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Magneto/Erik Lensher from X-Men, Loki from the MCU, Markus and Simon from Detroit: Become Human, there's a lot...
not Nahko Bear trying to advertise new music by posting a flippant response to someone bringing up his "cancellation" (he's a serial predator, for those who haven't known) 🙄🙄🙄
PS : Attention j’ai un Arc-En-Fil dans la poche et je suis tributée. Désolée, je laisse couler, je parle le langage des nuages : https://youtu.be/m8cEUR810U8.
Dancing With the Moon, Balkan Beat Box : https://youtu.be/5jBAJs3otcY
Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People), Aloe Ke Akua : https://youtu.be/YsgP8LkEopM
One shot, the Earth, Bukahara : : https://youtu.be/7-LY0dSKrQQ
Dejame, Rumbakana & Manu Chao : https://youtu.be/XiRjD5tqSi0
Last year all the maids in La Union tested positive for COVID so mama and I decided to stay there instead of going back to Manila. Mama did not want papa to be exposed to us as PUIs.
Papa claimed that he had had COVID already, perhaps because of having trouble breathing. They didn’t test themselves to confirm though, he just liked diagnosing himself, always saying “mas kilala ko sarili ko,” never wanting to have himself checked kasi “raraketin ka lang ng mga doctor pag nagpa check up ka”. “Syempre pag ganito ka na katanda magloloko na talaga spare parts mo, panigurado may makikita sila,” he would say. His Jan 3-6 Omicron scare might have been an early sign of his heart failure manifesting.
I didn’t feel like celebrating that year, solely because of the fact that I wasn’t going to be able to spend it with the whole family.
Mama still wanted me to feel festive and had this cake made. Yo said the design made it parang pang debut. I don’t remember much from my 29th birthday. Photos remind me that I spent it with Franco, Yo, Tom, Shane, Audrey, Migs, and Chloe.
Audrey busted her lip that night from doing the worm dance.
I don’t know how I’m celebrating my birthday this year. I just know I won’t be celebrating it with the whole family again now that papa’s gone. I wish to dream about him.
There’s pressure that comes with turning 30. Just a force that tells me I should do something to commemorate the big 3-0. But I don’t feel like listening.