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no-reply95 · 3 years ago

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I was scrolling through the Beatles topic on Twitter the other day and came across a tweet from Mark Lewisohn referring to a talk he’d given to the Fab4cast podcast on the Get Back sessions and Spring period of 1969. I assumed that it was a recent talk so I gave it a listen but the talk is actually from 2019.

I tend to find Lewisohn’s podcast interviews to be very interesting. He’s obviously got decades worth of Beatle knowledge stored up so you’re almost guaranteed to learn something new or hear an anecdote that you’ve never heard before but more than the factoids he’s accumulated over the years I find his interpretations of the band extremely telling.

The part of the conversation that really caught my attention was when the podcast hosts brought up the fact that John and Paul’s weddings were really close together and wondered if the two events were connected in any way, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that this probably got the biggest reaction out of Lewisohn, the main points of the exchange are outlined below (time stamp 47:12)

Host: “Well also in this period there are two events, the marriages of John and Paul, within 8 days of each other… I read that John wanted to marry on the 14th, two days after Paul’s wedding but couldn’t do it because of legal issues, how much was his [marriage] a response to Paul’s marriage do you think?”

Lewisohn: “I’ve read that people say that it was but never heard John say that it was so there’s no validity to those claims they’re just people assuming that John didn’t want to be outdone by Paul… that’s the kind of writing that annoys me because it becomes part of the fact and it’s some writer thinking that’s what it probably was… Unless someone out there can find a Lennon quote in which he actually says it in which case I stand corrected and I’ll be very happy to do so”

There’s a lot going on in these quotes so I’m gonna break down my thoughts on this further:

The illusion of John’s honesty

What Lewisohn displays here is something I believe is pretty common within the Beatles’ authorship. I believe in Revolution In The Head Ian McDonald referred to John as “truth” and Paul as “beauty” and I think a lot of writers do tend to assign those attributes consistently to John and Paul. Reading (or listening) to the Lennon Remembers interview now, it’s hard to believe at one stage people took what John was saying as fact and never even questioned whether there were emotions or agenda behind what he was saying, despite the contradictions (“Me and Paul stopped writing together in 1962” vs “Me and Paul worked really closely together on Sgt. Pepper”) and because John was so charismatic and would speak openly in interviews and to people he knew about both the good and bad in his life I think people, and in this case Lewisohn, assume that John told us everything of note that happened in his life, which I don’t think is a realistic expectation of anyone, let alone someone as famous as John. I think it’s problematic to take John’s or anyone else’s words, especially when they’re said in public, as the gospel truth because everyone has an agenda and John was no different. I also think it’s unrealistic to believe that John would ever announce that the reason he and Yoko got married when they did was in any way connected to Paul, that would have sullied the sanctity of “John and Yoko TM”, I mean, how can you be the greatest love story ever if the reason you decided to get married was because your musical partner who you may have unresolved romantic feelings for got married? I don’t think John would publicly embarrass Yoko like that or risk undermining the strength of the brand he was trying to create with his new relationship by admitting that Paul’s marriage spurred them on. That Lewisohn is apparently holding out for a lost interview of John stating that Paul was involved in the timing of his marriage to Yoko just sounds pretty far fetched to me.

The timing of John’s wedding in relation to his and Yoko’s divorces

As discussed in this podcast, Paul and Linda got married (pretty unexpectedly I believe) on 12 March 1969 and John and Yoko got married 8 days later (and apparently they wanted it to be sooner) on 20 March 1969. Aside from the extremely close proximity of John and Paul’s weddings it should be noted that John’s divorce from Cynthia was finalised in November 1968 and Yoko’s from Tony Cox was finalised in January 1969.

So why am I bringing up John and Yoko’s divorces? Because it meant that they were free to marry each other from January 1969, there was no longer a legal issue preventing them and if John’s bursting out in song about it, you would assume that they would have started planning their wedding ASAP… but curiously they didn’t. How do we know John and Yoko weren’t planning a wedding before Paul married Linda? Because once Paul was married John and Yoko started scrambling to get married ASAP, suddenly there was a rush and need to be married that hadn’t existed before, John suddenly wanted to marry Yoko on a ferry but they couldn’t be married there, then John wanted to marry Yoko in Paris but they needed to be resident in Paris for a period of time before they could get married there so eventually they settled on Gibraltar as they could get married there at short notice. Clearly there was a sudden need for John and Yoko to get married that didn’t materialise until around March 1969, am I and countless other people (including Paul himself) crazy for assuming that Paul’s wedding impacted John’s sudden desperate need to be married? If it wasn’t Paul’s wedding, what was it?

Authorial interpretation and assumptions

I’m really fascinated by the visceral reaction Lewisohn had to just the suggestion that the timing of John and Yoko’s wedding was connected to Paul and Linda’s. For Lewisohn to state it annoys him was pretty shocking to me because, given what is publicly known about this period and the lack of any other logical reason for John and Yoko’s wedding to be so close to Paul’s and Linda’s, I don’t think it’s bad writing to point out the proximity and suggest that the timing was more than a coincidence.

Based on his reaction, you would assume that Lewisohn would be set against any form of interpretation where the principal in question hadn’t confirmed that the interpretation was in fact correct but that would be an incorrect assumption to make. Some of you may be aware of the Hornsey Road shows Mark Lewisohn was giving in 2019 around the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road. During these shows Lewisohn played a clip from the, now infamous, 4-4-4-2 meeting tape and gave a presentation on the Abbey Road period in the Beatles’ history. One of the points Lewisohn raised during the show was that during the sessions, after the car accident in Scotland, a bed was brought into the studio for Yoko so she (and sometimes John) could rest while work on the album progressed. According to Lewisohn, one morning they turned up to the studio and someone had removed one of the legs from the bed, leaving it with 3 legs *dramatic pause* which was him heavily hinting that he thought Paul broke Yoko’s bed on purpose and then bragged about it on the Ram album by including a song called 3 legs, I’m not going to go into the validity (or lack thereof) of this claim but I find it very interesting that Lewisohn was annoyed about authors suggesting that the timing of John and Yoko’s wedding was connected to Paul and Linda’s but he seems happy to publicly speculate that Paul was sabotaging Yoko’s bed in the studio based on the title of a song that he would release on Ram two years later and nothing else.

Is there any evidence that connects John’s wedding to Paul’s?

I’ve already outlined the suspiciousness of John and Yoko choosing to get married right after Paul, when they had been free to marry for weeks prior but is there any other evidence that either proves that the weddings were connected or is Lewisohn right to deem that suggestion as lacking in validity?

Interestingly there actually is unverified eyewitness testimony that does connect John and Paul’s weddings (something not mentioned by Lewisohn in this podcast). I believe there’s an anecdote from Les Anthony (John’s chauffeur at the time) about him driving John and Yoko around when news of Paul’s wedding suddenly came across the radio, to which John apparently said to Yoko that “we have to get married now”… I couldn’t track down the exact source for that story (if anyone knows the source please let me know) so I’m not sure how credible that anecdote is but, assuming it is accurate, then that would suggest a correlation between John and Paul’s weddings that Lewisohn is adamant doesn’t exist.

Why does this matter?

I do think that this podcast interview could be indicative of a few future concerns I personally have around the way the Beatles discourse will progress in the future. Firstly, this was only a podcast interview so it’s unlikely that when Lewisohn releases the final book in his trilogy that he’ll discuss the weddings in this manner (I.e. although he’s adamant the timing of John’s wedding had nothing to with Paul he failed to offer any sort of explanation regarding why John and Yoko were rushing to get married when they’d had weeks to prepare a wedding).

It’s a slight worry that Lewisohn seems to believe that John announced every single thing that happened in his life of note, especially concerning Paul and Yoko. If John had told us everything of interest about him, surely his Dakota diaries would be the basis of a Netflix series by now and not locked away in a vault (assuming they haven’t already been destroyed). To me, like several authors before him, Lewisohn seems to be mistaking John’s emotional honesty with factual honesty. It didn’t escape my attention that several clips of the Lennon Remembers interview were inserted into this podcast and Lewisohn quotes extensively from it in Tune In as well. There’s nothing wrong with using Lennon Remembers as a source but if you do use it you should be analysing the veracity of what was said as we know that John was in a torched earth mentality at that time and even he himself has said what he said in that interview wasn’t meant as a timeless manifesto. It’s a shame that given his ability of analyse sources Lewisohn has never (to my knowledge) critically analysed Lennon Remembers, given that other sources have been analysed this makes LR a strange omission.

Finally, Lewisohn does tend to make some good insights and does have the ability to read between the lines (I.e. him noting Paul’s tendency to say “we” when in most cases he means himself) but with John I do think he has a bit of a blindspot. Why Lewisohn is happy to speculate without evidence in some cases (3 legs) but he draws the line at the suggestion that John and Paul’s weddings being connected is anyone’s guess. If Lewisohn can turn his attention to reading between the lines with John and the other Beatles too and connecting the dots then we should get a Beatles biography that finally addresses a lot of the issues we cover on this site. However, if we take the approach of only using John and Yoko’s PR to understand the events that transpired before and after the band broke up then the story hasn’t moved much further than 1970 and given all that we know now I think that would be a huge shame.

#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #john and paul #mark lewisohn #paul and linda #john and yoko #double wedding #beatles podcasts #given Lewisohn’:s status it’s crucial he doesn’t just dismiss things he doesn’t like as invalid #interpretation is fine as long as it’s correct #i have other podcast thoughts on a separate show #thoughts #long post

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multimetaverse · 3 years ago

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HSMTMTS 2x08 Review

Most Likely To was the best ep of S2 so far and ended one ship while launching another. Let’s dig in!

Gaston was super fun, a very nice showcase for both Larry and Matt. This is the kind of energy that early S2 was lacking. Also feels like the first ep where East High might actually have a shot at beating North High. Covid restrictions played a role but we really needed to see more rehearsal scenes and scenes of the wildcats just being theatre kids. This also may be one of the last times we see EJ perform as a student in the musical so I’m glad we got this.

EJ has been criminally underused for most of S2, he’s marketed as part of the big 4 along with Nini, Ricky, and Gina and Matt Cornett’s name is listed 3rd in the credits but in the early eps of S2 you’d think he was guest star. Lately he’s started to become more important and tonight was an excellent showcase of why he’s such an interesting character. I’m not gonna check but this feels like it’s the most EJ screen time in a single ep that we’ve gotten all season long.

Of course, the main reason for EJ’s increased screen time is because of Portwell. I’ve been neutral on them but tonight they really won me over’ their scenes were so sweet that they warmed even my cold black heart. Matt and Sofia are good friends irl and that shines through in their easy rapport and great chemistry. Gina snorting at EJ’s joke was cute and I loved the shot of Gina accidentally walking into the shot for EJ’s confessional. As an aside, they’ve been doing some fun stuff with the confessionals lately which helps add a bit of the metaness that helped make S1 so great.

The real big Portwell scene tonight was EJ and Gina talking on the couch at Ashlyn’s. Lot’s to love there. Gina’s speech to EJ about what she sees when she thinks of him was sweet and her saying that EJ tried to do the right thing and often failed but kept trying echoes what she said of herself during her confession to Ricky. Also when EJ asked Gina if she understood the feeling of having her life mapped out she replied, ‘’not really’’ which is almost certainly the inspiration for Gina asking a question to EJ and him responding ‘’not really’’ in their pre S2 face time call on the hsmtmts instagram.

EJ is still wracked with guilt for the guy he used to be but Gina reminds him that he’s grown and is a good guy which leads to her slip up about her seeing him that way vs the rest of the gang hinting that she’s beginning to catch feelings for EJ. Which leads to EJ complimenting her and them having a moment that could well have led to a kiss if Ashlyn hadn’t come home. And they cap it off with Gina falling asleep and EJ covering her with his Duke sweater.

It’s been nice not seeing Gina upset over Ricky these past two eps and it’s a damning indictment of the poor writing and pacing of S2 that her story in the first 6 eps can be summed up as Gina being upset over something Ricky said or did. Not only has Portwell allowed EJ to rise in prominence but also it’s allowed Gina to escape the rut her character was stuck in pining for Ricky.

I hope after S2 is over that we get an interview where Tim explains how the Portwell plot came to be. The S1 finale set up some possible interest between them as did the pre S2 face time call but nothing came of it during the first 4 eps, they stood next to each other a lot but barely interacted otherwise. Notably in 2x01, which Tim himself wrote, EJ tries to grow a beard and tells Ashlyn that he says her as so young which is extremely jarring now that we know that EJ is crushing on Gina who is Ashlyn’s age.

Was Tim not set on doing Portwell until he realized he needed to give Gina something else to do other than hopelessly pine for Ricky? Narratively, it made sense after Rini got together in S1 to put the other two Big 4 characters together in S2 but did Tim not want it to seem so obvious to the audience so he deliberately kept Portwell apart until 2x05 where EJ’s feelings make for a nice plot twist? Was he just reluctant to plug EJ back into the love square due to how much more complicated it would make things but later felt he had no other options? Or was it just plain old bad pacing and writing?

Of course, I wish that there wasn’t such a large age gap between Sofia and Matt but there are no Gina ships that avoid that problem, there’s also an age gap between Sofia and Joshua, just as there was between Olivia and Joshua and Matt in S1. Depending on when they film S3 there’s a good chance that most of it will be finished before Sofia even turns 18 which is deeply unfortunate. There’s a broader issue of teen girls being cast in mostly age appropriate roles while their male love interests are older adults and in particular it often affects female characters of colour. Netflix has a really bad track record with those kind of age gaps but Disney has problems too as we’ve seen on HSMTMTS and on GMW where by the end of S3 they had 18 year old Peyton Meyer as the boyfriend of 14 year old Rowan Blanchard’s character (not to mention canon Joshaya which didn’t have such a bad age gap between the actors but was problematic regarding the ages of the characters themselves).

A knock I’ve seen on Portwell is that EJ is just gonna leave for university next year but that was never gonna happen, Matt’s under the same 4 season contract as all the other mains and he’ll be sticking around in some capacity much like Sharpay ended up doing in the movies. It is true that EJ will probably have to move on at the end of S4 while Gina still has her senior year left but that will also happen with her and Ricky since he’ll be graduating at the end of S4. It was a big mistake to make EJ a senior but it also may end up being a big mistake to make Gina a sophomore. It would have been too messy to retcon EJ to be a junior but Tim probably should have taken the chance to retcon Gina into being a junior in S2.

That Rini breakup was so sad (missed opportunity for gotta go my own way). They managed to get in a Troyella reference with the treehouse. This was inevitable they just have not been communicating well though now that we know that Ricky thought Nini left YAC for him some of his desperation to spend as much time together as possible makes more sense. I think Rini is endgame if the series has 4 seasons but it wouldn't shock me if we never seem them dating again and they only get back together in the series finale. It also wouldn’t surprise me if Nini never dates anyone else for the remainder of the series or at least not seriously.

We’re not even halfway through the series so it’s way too early to permanently slam the door on Rini though this time apart will probably help Joshua and Olivia move on from their own bitter break up before it bleeds too much into their performances. I do wonder if Tim really has a clue what he's gonna do with them for the remaining 24-28 eps of the series, assuming S3 and S4 have 10-12 eps each.

Roman Banks killed If I Can’t Love Her and the montage of all the couples or ex couples was great.

It was nice to finally meets some parents other than the Bowen’s and Salazar-Roberts’. Kourtney’s mom was played by Dara’s actual mother and their dynamic was great as expected. It seems from their conversation that Kourtney's father is dead which I don’t believe has been mentioned before. Cash Caswell.... well it gets what the character is about across. He really looks and sounds like a rich Utah republican, I bet he knows Mitt Romney personally. I liked EJ going to tell his father that he’s not going to Duke and recognizing that he wants to build his own life on his own merits.

We saw a bit of that S1 Miss Jenn energy tonight which was fun though I didn't like how curt she was with Seb nor did I like how rude Carlos was to Seb although we know that blows up in 2x10.

Jazzara rising! I really liked how Jazzara and Portwell are sort of mirroring each other and since Mazzara knows about EJ’s feelings for Gina it wouldn’t shock me if helping EJ out is part of him showing a softer side in 2x12.

Of course Ashlyn is VP of the Nostradamus society. It's clear her family has some kooky new age beliefs (her parents are probably members of some naturopathic medicine group on Facebook that doubles as a gateway into Qanon)

It was nice to see Big Red being such a good friend to Ricky and the return of Ricky’s infamous pillow hugs. Lmao at Ashlyn just chilling while Big Red is comforting Ricky

Also Miss Jenn saying sexy and Big Red referring to pillow talk, the writers are adding a bit of spice when cooking up these scripts.

Looking Ahead:

Looks like Gina may be wearing EJ's duke sweater next ep according to some posts I saw. Jack presumably is there to somehow help Gina decide what she wants with Ricky and EJ though him having wanderlust might also feed into Gina’s thoughts on settling down in SLC or moving with her mom around the country.

Let's see what mom of the year, Lynne Bowen, has up her sleeves. Ricky’s bedroom at her place in Chicago looks much nicer than the apartment Mike Bowen has so perhaps she makes a lot more money than he does.

Not looking forward to the Zoom portions of the ep but I guess it was inevitable.

There’s only two paths for Gina’s story to go in the remainder of this season; either she decides to move on from Ricky and give EJ a chance or she decides that Ricky is worth trying again and squelches her budding feelings for EJ. The former looks much more likely after tonight’s ep but either way it needs to be handled with care. Inevitably Gina and Ricky need to talk about what happened between them but if Tim really wants Ricky to continue being a viable love interest or even a good friend to Gina then he needs to really have Ricky apologize and show a thoughtful, kinder side of him that’s largely been missing this season.

What I think Tim is doing is setting up Portwell getting together in 2x12 but Ricky pining over Gina until Portwell break up late S3 and Rina get together in the S3 finale before they break up later in S4 and Ricky gets back with Nini near the end of the series. If I had Tim’s ear I would tell him that he should pick which ship he wants to do, Rina or Portwell, but don’t do both. He wants canon Rina? Great then end Portwell before it starts and have Rina happen in S3 and introduce other obstacles to them getting together rather than having to damage EJ’s character and make him lose another girl he likes to Ricky. He wants canon Portwell? Great then have Gina and Ricky’s conversation be closure for the both of them and have Gina and EJ get together and break them up without Ricky being a cause of it or waiting in the wings to get with Gina soon afterwards. Doing both will be a disaster and I truly hope that Tim Federle carefully thinks over his mistakes in S2 and really plans out the remaining 2 seasons of the series while there’s still time to prevent things from going really off the rails like GMW and AM did thanks to the bad decisions of Michael Jacobs and Terri Minsky.

Until next week wildcats.

#HSMTMTS #Portwell #Rini #Gina Porter #EJ Caswell #Ricky Bowen #Nini Salazar-Roberts #Kourtney Greene #HSMTMTS Reviews

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ladyc0312 · 4 years ago

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A Jikook Guide to RunBTS: 102-111

It’s been a minute! No, I haven’t abandoned this project - I’ve just been dealing with real world stuff at the same time as I’ve been working on my fic, which is wrapping up this week. It’s also been kind of strange to me to have gotten to this point in doing the Run episode write-ups, as 102 was the first episode of the show I ever watched.

With no further ado, let’s get it!

Ep 102 “King of Avatar Cook Part 1” (Ep: 4 / KM: 2)

The ones where Suga nearly cries over mixed up salt and sugar

6:44 - When JM beats JK in rocks paper scissors, JK "snips" Jimin's rock with his fingers and then moves his other hand to hold JM's hand for a moment (as seen in the Behind) Amusingly, no one except the editors seem to notice that JM only won by straight-up cheating and changing his answer to match Hobi's while everyone was looking at JK.

32:32 - JM touches JK's back when he first comes into the kitchen to taste the food JK helped make.

33:01 - After JM tells Hobi not to fill up on the other team's food, JK says Hobi should eat more and JM scolds him not to play dirty while wagging his finger at him. JM says to play fair and JK shakes his hand.

33:28 - JM and JK stand super close together to take the last of the food they want.

BEHIND 2:26 - After joking that he wanted to change teams, JM says that JK is always confident about his cooking and that he thinks JK will be good.

4:24 - Longer take of the 6:44 moment where you can see JK quickly holding JM's hand after rocks paper scissors.

5:03 - JK tattles on JM for looking at the recipe on his phone and says they should take points off for doing that.

Ep 103 “King of Avatar Cook Part 2” (Ep: 4 / KM: 1)

6:16 - JK laughs and claps like it's the funniest thing ever when Suga instructs JM to stand still with his hands clasped and JM does so.

7:05 - When JM keeps pretending Suga is instructing RM to do stuff like say JM is handsome and be nice to him, JK says "Look, look, he's saying weird stuff!" and laughs with JH about it.

9:01 - JK once again laughs at JM being silly like it's much cuter and funnier than it is.

27:04 - Same here.

Ep 104 “Photo Exhibition Part 1″ (Ep: 4 / KM: 3)

The one where everyone except Jimin is a little afraid of JK

All - black & white couple <3

2:24 - The guys are playing a musical chairs-type game and, twice, other members talk about how they're scared of getting hurt because JK is big and competitive. At this moment, JK and JM go for the same mat and JK wins. JM sits and leans back against him. As Hobi and Suga talk about how scary JK is, JK is smiling and putting his arms around JM while JM hums and smiles at the camera.

9:01-9:16 - Somewhere in here, JM uses the opportunity of RM getting up to select his clothes to shift his seat so that he's sitting next to JK.

10:44 - When JK is looking for a belt, JM helps him out by suggesting he make one with one of the pieces of clothing he's holding.

11:06 - Probably nothing, but Hobi suggests out of nowhere that JM go for the "boyfriend look" with his outfit.

Ep 105 “Photo Exhibition Part 2″ (Ep: 3 / KM: 2)

The one where everyone finishes their outfits and takes pictures of each other

5:37 - JM asks JK to look at the pants he made, seemingly searching for a compliment, which JK dutifully gives him.

11:47 - After JM gets the capital of Mongolia right, JK asks how he did it and comments that JM is full of surprises.

29:48 - JK helps JM tie on an accessory. Didn't want to not include this moment because it's cute, but it should be noted that JK is in the role of JM's "stylist" and that's why he's doing it.

32:52 - When V takes a pic of JM from the back, Suga says he can't tell if it's JM or JK (despite them having totally different outfits, different hair colors and cuts, and generally looking nothing alike...)

BEHIND 7:36 - Another angle of the 29:48 moment

Ep 106 “Photo Exhibition Part 3″ (Ep: 3 / KM: 3)

The one with the now-infamous photo of Jimin

4:20 - JM compliments JK's photography skills and shakes JK's hand when he returns from taking RM's photos.

6:57 - While the others are looking at Suga's pictures of JK, JM asks JK to take pictures of him (and licks his lips while doing so).

7:18 - JM is continuing to pose for JK, this time on all fours looking back over his shoulder. JM will claim half a minute later that he was going for a "werewolf pose"... but, really?

28:45 - When the others are criticizing JM's photo, JK comes over and puts his hands on JM's waist. The camera pans away immediately.

35:56 - JK ends the episode joking about the "new actor" photo he took of Jimin.

BEHIND 5:58 - JK takes everyone’s favorite photo of JM.

Ep 107 "BTS Game Scouts Part 1" (Ep: 2 / KM: 1)

The ones I’ve watched twice now and still can’t follow, but the guys seem happy

4:56 - JK calls Jimin "Jimin-ssi" and tells him to start drawing.

11:27 - JK does so again when it's JM’s turn here. BEHIND 6:01 - JM tells JK he's right behind JK in the score in a flirty tone.

Ep 108 "BTS Game Scouts Part 2" (Ep: 2 / KM: 1)

11:20 - When Jimin gets a purple reward, he starts repeating "boarahae" and JK joins in by singing it.

26:38 - J-Hope accidentally says "Jungkook and Jimin" when he means "Jungkook and Tae." It's almost like he's used to saying two of those names together...

30:06 - All three times they're about to announce JK the winner of something, JM cuts in to announce his name before they do.

31:28 - When JK asks where he can use his gift cards, Jimin tells him he can go shopping with them.

Ep 109 "Dubbing" (Ep: 5 / KM: 2)

The one where it seems JM might have a future in Disney dubbing if this whole idol thing doesn’t work out

0:19 - JM finds the different voice JK uses in the opening much funnier than anyone else does

10:40 - JK praises JM's Lion King performance

33:19 - After their guest praises JM for his performance as Judy in the Zootopia scene, JK calls out "Jimin-ssi!" twice

BEHIND 0:51 - JK has a GIANT smile on his face because he finds JM's sudden shyness adorable

3:50 - After JK complains that he is cold, JM puts his arms around him to warm him up

6:02 - When JM is playing around with the Rex voice, JK again finds it far funnier than anyone else does

Ep 110 "Treasure Hunt Part 1" (Ep: 4 / KM: 1)

The ones where the warm-up games to get hints to the treasure hunt are much more fun than the hunt itself

12:35 - When J-Hope suggests that someone should get piggy-backed, JK says "oh!" and looks right at JM.

22:18 - When JK starts singing, JM joins in and harmonizes with him. BEHIND

2:57 - When it's announced that a game is all about being strong, JM immediately says that JK should do it.

4:08 - When it becomes clear it's a strength and flexibility challenge, JK says JM should go and informs everyone that JM majored in contemporary dance.

Ep 111 "Treasure Hunt Part 2" (Ep: 2 / KM: 2)

6:19 - When they get the clue "Jungkook with a different last name," Suga immediately says, "Park Jungkook"

33:00 - When JM learns that the prize is to go home, one of his first comments is that JK won't be able to go home (because JM knows JK hasn't really been trying on this one.)

33:44 - In his ending comment, JM wishes everyone after him good luck - especially JK. BEHIND 4:12 - When JK is confused about the rules, he asks JM for clarification and JM explains to him (the on-screen text says he's being a "friendly hyung")

5:45 - When JH asks Tae if he knows the "JK's last name" answer yet, Tae also guesses "Park"

8:12 - As JM leaves, he once again brings up JK, saying "JK, fighting!" No proof of this, but there has been some speculation that JM's concern for JK may have led to him texting him the answer, because JK seems to be able to get the passcode without having done any of the work necessary to solve the clues...

#jikook guide to run bts #jikook #kookmin

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flowercoasts · 5 years ago

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the evolution of beau’s crush on jester

or, i looked at marisha’s likes on twitter for 2 hours and here are my findings

DISCLAIMER: i only went as far back as December of 2018 (12/20/18) because of the boat scene. i also left out beau & jester fanarts that i personally deemed to be largely platonic and not too relevant to this.... study (?).

#1: around December 2018, episode 46, was a pivotal moment in Beau & Jester’s relationship, the Boat Scene. accordingly, marisha liked 3 separate fanarts of Beau & Jester saying “i love you”/hugging around December 20-24 2018. none were explicitly shippy, and most seemed platonic in nature.

#2: marisha liked two more tweets about beau loving jester/feeling protective over her. again, mainly platonic and not shippy in nature. both were liked on 1/31/19, which, according to a quick cross-reference with a tweet by critical role on the same date, was the airing date of episode 50 - here, the m9 were traveling underground, beau read some smut books aloud, and acted with jester and called her “mistress”.

#3: the first real hint of beaujester - marisha liked a fanart with “okay but my heart explodes every time beau sees jester sad/scared/frustrated and she goes a lil soft” beau & jester are hugging and the fanart is tagged #beaujester. marisha liked it on 4/21/19 - this is after the 59th episode (aka beau stays up with jester through her sickness).

#4: a fanart from day 1 of Beaujester Week 2019 depicting the two in battle together. it’s only tagged with #beaujester and did not have marisha tagged. marisha liked it on 7/25/19 - the closest beaujester scene in canon would’ve been the dress scene in ep 71 but marisha specifically liked other dress scene fanarts, so she found it through the #beaujester tag.

#5: speaking of the Dress Scene - marisha liked a fanart of that scene on 7/26/19. it is not tagged as beaujester or shippy in nature, but considering previous likes and marisha’s own words about the Dress Scene on Talks, it’s safe to say Beau was feeling some type of way.

#6: that dress scene really sparked marisha’s beaujester mind! marisha liked a fanart with the caption “if yellow is the happiest color, your blue puts it to shame” which depicts beau and jester in a romantic dancer-esque pose, holding hands, smiling, and surrounding by falling rose petals. it’s tagged with #beauster, tags marisha and laura, and she liked it on 7/26/19, BUT the art was created on 3/6/19! either marisha went through the fanarts she was tagged in or she went through the #beauster tag on twitter.

#7: her likes for beaujester become more and more frequent - a fanart depicting beau kissing jester on the cheek was tagged with #beaujes. marisha liked this tweet on 8/22/19, aka the thursday that episode 76 aired: the one where beau goes “i look at jester” after kissing reani!

#8: another beau & jester fanart, though this one isn’t shippy in nature - it simply depicts beau and jester in winter clothes. however, marisha liked it on 8/23/29, and it comes right after the previous like of #7 (above), which is a little bit telling. still not as important as —

#9: sizzlebread’s infamous “what is it about jester” fanart that marisha and laura both liked. marisha liked this on 11/15/19, the night of episode 85, aka Beau’s crush confession.

#10: another piece that isn’t necessarily romantically beaujester in nature but depicts beau looking fondly up at jester, who’s leaning on her. it also comes right between two big beaujester likes from marisha. she liked it on 12/19/19, the night of episode 89, where Beau and Jester had their most recent conversation at the Cottage in Rexxentrum.

#11: the most recent beaujester like from marisha is ruushes amazing beaujester tattoo art. the caption is “tattoo designs... but make it beaujes” and marisha liked it on 12/20/19, again the closest episode to that is 89.

MORE CONCISE TIMELINE

December 20-24, 2018: platonic beau & jester fanarts of the Boat Scene from episode 46.

January 31, 2019: 2 platonic fanarts of beau loving/feeling protective over jester. can be connected to episode 50.

April 21, 2019: a fanart tagged with #beaujester that marisha liked after episode 59.

July 22, 2019: a dress scene fanart from episode 71 and a romantic beaujester piece! the first one is not tagged as beaujester, but the second one is romantic and tagged as #beauster.

July 25, 2019: a beaujester week 2019 fanart that marisha liked.

August 22, 2019: a romantic fanart tagged with #beaujes. marisha liked this on the night episode 76 aired.

August 23, 2019: not necessarily a romantic beaujester piece, but it comes right after the last like of August 22.

November 15, 2019: the iconic sizzlebread crush rendition. marisha liked this on 12/19/19, the day that episode 85 aired, where beau revealed her crush on jester.

December 19, 2019: this one is not explicitly beaujester but it comes right between two of the bigger beaujester fanarts and marisha liked the art on the night that episode 89 aired.

December 20, 2019: ruushes amazing tattoo art, complete with a beaujes caption. romantic vibes all around!

MY THOUGHTS: just as marisha said on the Talks after episode 85, it’s hard to pinpoint where exactly beau realized! but i can make a pretty solid guess. beau’s always had a soft spot for jester, which marisha confirmed on the special “discussing campaign 2 so far” talks episode. beau’s feelings for jester have probably always been in the back of her mind (in ep 2 jester says “should we take our clothes off?” and beau answers, “did you say that because you wanna tell me something?” timestamp 2:54:38) but she never pursued it because she thought it would never happen. however, sometime around the xhorhas arc, those feelings began to become a little more prominent. there’s a list of beaujester moments that happen during/after the xhorhas arc i could list: “in a way” of ep 49 , “i follow jester” in 53, the beaujester talk of 70, the worm battle in 73, their scenes in the happy fun ball, All of their Little Moments... but i would say the Dress Scene of episode 71 was the moment of realization/reflection, or at least a big moment in Beau’s journey to revealing her crush. marisha’s likes seem to become more romantically beaujester-inclined after the Dress Scene as well.

so there you have it! my findings, accompanied by some speculation and episode cross referencing.

again, these are all my own thoughts! take my findings and do with it what you will!

(i have screenshots if needed btw)

#elena talks #critical role #cr meta #beaujester #cr speculation #beauregard lionett #beau #its past 3 am but here it is

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merinnan · 4 years ago

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DMBJ Ep 6

I’ve been a bit behind putting these up on Tumblr, so I’m afraid you’re about to get a dump of the remainder of Season 1, plus the first two eps of Explore with the Note! (not all in one post, of course - 1 ep per post as usual)

So! Episode 6!

The Xiaoge Rescue Count at the start of ep 6 stands at 9 for Wu Xie, 12 for the protagonists, 13 for everyone.

- And we start back with Chengcheng and High Jr. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS SUBPLOT, MAKE IT GO AWAY AND BRING BACK XIAOGE AND WU XIE.

- Why is Chengcheng calling her kidnapper dage? I don't like her or trust her. She is annoying and shady

- Oh, good, now we are back to Wu Xie being a good boy

- That is a lot of guns and explosives Sanshu has recovered

- I am annoyed at how they all seem to think that A-Ning needs to be shielded from everything unpleasant because she's a girl. She's a goddamn mercenary leader. I think she can take knowing these things - and it's better to let her know as it's found out so that she can adjust to the news properly, instead of springing it on her when it can't be concealed anymore, like what happened when the blood zombie showed up.

- On a completely different tangent, Wu Xie's neck dressing has stayed astonishingly clear for running around in a tomb, crawling through tight tunnels, falling off of ledges and being dramatically rescued, fighting bugs, and fainting all over floors.

- Wu Xie is so sweetly optimistic

- LOL, sure Pangzi, you're here for archeological study

- ....Wu Xie, you are disturbingly knowledgeable about guns for a college student

- Now that I've read the first novel between having watched ep 5 and now, my mind is slightly reeling from how innocent and babie drama Wu Xie is compared to novel Wu Xie

- Awww. Doesn't matter which Wu Xie it is, babie with gun always looks kinda adorable.

- Also, I appreciate Wu Xie's trigger discipline. So often shows have such terrible trigger discipline.

- Oooh, it's like a carved thing on the dais that got his attention. I thought it was like a computer drive or something at first, because it looked kinda like that.

- OH NO, THE LIVING VINES ARE HERE AND SNEAKING UP ON THEM

- ...and pushing the button made them retreat

- ...phew?

- I am still concerned

- The music signifies that something creepy is coming

- lol, babie. Looking so innocent even though He Knows What He Did

- I don't know what that sound is, but that's not a good sound

- ...earthquake? That's a bad thing to happen when you're in the middle of an evil cave.

- WU FAMILY, WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY ONES TRYING TO STAY ON YOUR FEET WITHOUT HOLDING ONTO ANYTHING?!

- So fucking stubborn

- This is where Wu Xie gets it from, if Erbai is wondering

- A-Ning is the smartest one, staying sitting down

- The tree opens up like a fucking security vault and ejects a coffin. Because of course if fucking does.

- Oooh, yeah, that's that shot from the opening credits

- "I can't read any of this, but it says this is the guy we're looking for"

- "His story recorded here is the same as what we know" WU XIE YOU JUST SAID YOU CAN'T READ IT

- Come on. Earlier in the show you said "yes I can read this" and read it. And in the novel, you puzzle it out from being able to read bits. This part, you flat out said he couldn't read it, and now are telling everyone what it says

��- I love continuity, but dramas really don't

- The music now is similar enough to the Harry Potter music that I almost expect an owl to go flying past

- The owner of a coffin wanting the coffin to be opened hundreds or thousands of years later seems like it should be something more worrying than how everyone is reacting

- I wanna know how Sanshu knows the coffin has been there for 3000 years. Wu Xie can't read the dates on it, and the Warring States Period was 1500 years ago, not 3000

- JESUS CHRIST, SANSHU, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SENSIBLE ONE!

- Why are you suggesting you open the chained shut coffin in order to see if there's somehow something alive (or alive-ish) in there?

- Awwww! Wu Xie going "no, don't do that, Pokerface told us not to touch anything"

- Like. Not, "no uncle, that seems like a bad idea"

- But "Xiaoge told us not to, and we should do what he says"

- I have the feeling that if this Pangzi is agreeing with something, then you all should not be doing that thing. Because this version of Pangzi is an idiot

- HOW THE FUCK IS THE MOVING COFFIN GOING TO SECRETLY HAVE THE EXIT INSIDE IT, PANGZI

- THAT MAKES THE LEAST SENSE OUT OF EVERYTHING SO FAR

- Pan Zi's "WTF do you think you're doing" look

- This Pangzi is so bad

- I even like Chengcheng better than him. And I wish they had taken her into the tomb and used her as bait.

- I'm glad he's better in other adaptations. Like, I love the Pangzi in Chongqi. I am so glad that he was my intro to Pangzi, not this one

- DON'T MAKE THE BABIE SAD BY BEING DUMB

- A-Ning really should not be just standing there with her leg injury. I've had a muscle biopsy before where they took it from the thigh, which is a similar 'injury' to what she's got, and you do not get on your feet unless you absolutely have to for days afterwards.

- At least they have her limp when she's walking, and it's kinda sad that I'm glad they do that!

- And Pan Zi should not be doing hard physical labour with a fucking gut wound

- But I think I'm more annoyed by A-Ning, because I have personal experience with her kind of injury so know first-hand what kind of pain she's causing herself by standing and walking

- HUMAN BRAIN LOGIC GO

- Pangzi you fucking dick, just standing there watching. You should be pushing instead of Pan Zi

- Hahahah, after all his shittalk and boasting, and he can't do it

- Oh, there, finally

- I know that inside lid is supposed to be jade, but it looks so terribly fake. Oh my god. It's awful

- It looks like a bad Photoshop of one of those Windows 98 default backgrounds

- I love the looks everyone gives Pangzi every time he slips up and talks about getting money from the stuff in the tomb

- LOL, that's not a carving, that's a couple of translucent green plastic discs stuck on top of Windows Background Photoshop cover

- ...I'm kinda waiting for someone to suddenly shout BOO! really loudly while they're all carefully trying to listen for any sounds in the coffin

- They're almost at the end of the first novel in terms of plot, and there's still 4 and a half eps to go

- Wow, I think that's the first time I've seen Sanshu actually worried

- lol, and now Pangzi says he believes him, rather than get his ear that close to the coffin himself

- PANGZI DON'T STARTLE SOMEONE WHO HAS THEIR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER OF A GUN & DEFINITELY DON'T SMACK THE GUN

- Wu Xie has a lot of control to have not accidentally shot right then

- LOL, after all their declarations how they're archaeologists, not tomb robbers, & how they're here to protect cultural artefacts from robbers, etc - they go make references to the northern and southern schools of tomb raiding

- Just without actually saying exactly what the 'Southern School' being referred to actually is.

- ....and now Pangzi jumps in front of the pointed gun as he grabs it. Do you have a fucking death wish, dude?

- And now we see the infamous bronze armour! Jade armour. Whatever

- You'd think they'd have learned to fucking take all of A-Ning's guns away from her after last time she held one of them at gunpoint

- OMG, the face on the helmet is so fucking ridiculous, I can't - It's not even properly positioned over his face

- Aaaaah, Sanshu called him tianzhen I'm so happy at being able to identify that word now it's ridiclous

- That...that is not what peeled skin looks like

- Pangzi comes right out and admits he's a tomb robber

- And for the first time, no-one calls him on it

- Or correct him for calling them tomb robbers

- Ah, there you are, Xiaoge. I was wondering how long it would take for you to be back

- I see looking for people in a tomb requires no shirt XD

- Better shots of shirtless Xiaoge

- Like, same, Wu Xie. Same.

- Look, I have two braincells, and one is for Xiaoge and one is for pingxie

- YOU ACTING LIKE THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS, PANGZI

- Oooh, this is a goood shot of the tattoo. And of who the tattoo is on

- I don't have a Xiaoge problem. It's the opposite of a problem.

- Seriously, Pangzi is so fucking lucky that Xiaoge didn't kill him a dozen times over during their first meetings here

- Also, now that Xiaoge has explained why he threw a knife at Pangzi, I believe it's time to update the Xiaoge Rescue Count to 9 for Wu Xie, 13 for the protagonists, 14 for everyone.

- Although maybe I should have also been keeping a People Eyerolling At Pangzi Count given how often it's been happening

- More Xiaoge pics, feat. emotions that are not 'worrying about Wu Xie'

- Also, did he throw the corpse off the platform after he broke it's neck, or did it yeet itself off somehow?

- I mean, I too wanna know how Xiaoge knows all this stuff if this was all put here 3000 years ago

- I do love that Wu Xie is already about the only person who Xiaoge will actually look at instead of staring down or straight ahead

- LOL, Wu Xie won't even let Pangzi so much as touch this.

- I honestly appreciate that Xiaoge appears to travel lightly enough that he doesn't have a spare shirt

- EVERYTHING makes Wu Xie better than everyone else (except Xiaoge), Pangzi

- lol, Sanshu, yes. You tell him.

- Hahahah, and Wu Xie playing along with Sanshu, the little adorable shit

- THE LOOK ON HIS FACE

- KJFDHKJDAFHFKASDJHFKJASDLHGFSKLJ

- AND DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE THAT SMIRK, WU XIE

- There is absolutely not enough of little shit!Wu Xie in S1

- Loooool, his little nod at Sanshu now that they got their way and made Pangzi promise to stfu for the time being

- And that is the first time I've seen that style of carriage roll like a car

- Those skull ballistae were a cool aesthetic, though

- THAT CARRIAGE WAS ROLLING LIKE A FUCKING CAR, HOW IS IT BACK UPRIGHT AND ROLLING ALONG THE GROUND TO THE CLIFF

- HOW TF IS IT ROLLING ANYWHERE WITH A SMASHED WHEEL

- HOW TF IS HE ABLE TO HOLD IT FOR EVEN A SECOND, ESPECIALLY WITH ONE HAND

- A thin as fuck flagpole is going to give you jack shit in terms of something to brace with when it comes to that much weight

- THE SCRIPTWRITER OF THIS SCENE IS BAD AND SHOULD FEEL BAD

- *cries in physics minor*

- I can suspend disbelief for aliens, zombies, everything about Xiaoge, logic holes, and plot pits. Apparently my line is a non-cultivator breaking the laws of physics.

- Aaaah, here come the zombies

- So this dude is not the zombie dude

- He is the emperor, I think?

- OH MY GOD THAT GREENSCREEN IS JUST THE WORST

- I thought the one on the river was bad. The one of her falling as he dives off the cliff to save her is actively painful

- Oh, now it looks like we're gonna have a dumb love triangle in the flashback. Yay. *waves tiny flag*

- Bitch, be a bit more grateful. Yes, your ex-lover caught you as you were falling & did so by basically flying, but that's just standard wuxia defiance of physics. Your husband held a FUCKING CARRIAGE with ONE HAND for AT LEAST TWO WHOLE MINUTES to keep you alive before your ex finally showed up

- "Were you really frightened?" Your majesty, what kind of a stupid question is that?

- The emperor's armour is really pretty, I gotta say

- Uuuugh, this stupid love story hurts in a bad way

- I'm just gonna fast forward through it

- ...and there's the end of the episode.

- That love triangle is going to make me scream, I know it

- But that does explain how they're going to pad out the episodes a bit more with how far through the plot they are already

- None of them are even really that pretty to make up for the boring, trite, love triangle plot

- How do they expect to keep my attention through it if I don't even have eye candy?!?!

- I will be seriously headdesking if this flashback goes on for more than the next ep!

- Oh well, there we are. The end of ep 6

The Xiaoge Rescue Count at the end of ep 6 stands at 9 for Wu Xie, 13 for the protagonists, 14 for everyone.

#alicia watches dmbj #dmbj #xiaoge rescue count #daomu biji #wu xie #zhang qiling #wang pangzi #iron triangle #xiaoge

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tatselk · 5 years ago

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The Untamed (陈情令) Review: Ep 23

!!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!!

Previous episode review: 1 and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,17, 18,19, 20, 21, 22.

Oh shit, so the Yintie and the Yinhufu are two different things. Somehow, I always thought that they were the same thing but that the live-action changed the name for some reason. Oh well, gonna use the pinyin from now on to differentiate them.

Even though it happened completely off-screen, I loved how quickly LWJ was implied to have run up all those steps to catch the fainting WWX. :D

Another thing I really liked was the parallels of WWX leaning against LWJ in one scene and NMJ leaning against LXC in the very next scene. :)

Oh shit X2, the NMJ and MY/JGY relationship is really acrimonious here. Maybe it is just me, but somehow it feels even more acrimonious than it canonically was. Like I actually winced and leaned backward in my seat when it looked like NMJ was going to run MY/JGY through with his sabre and LXC had to step in. So it makes it kinda bizarre since NMJ, LXC and MY/JGY still randomly became sworn brothers soon afterwards in the live-action...

Can I just say how my heart nearly stopped when I first heard LXC call MY/JGY "A-Yao"? And when MY/JGY kept holding onto LXC's sleeves/ robes?! Things sure have escalated quickly on the XiYao front. Of course, I already know this is all going to end badly but in the meantime, I'm just gonna ship XiYao as hard as I can. :):):)

Why... does it feel like JYL was trying to bring LWJ and WWX together when she kept mentioning LWJ after WWX woke up? Not to mention how she (conveniently) left them alone to apparently go look after the injured. Hahaha.

I can hardly believe how slimy JGS is here. JGS basically didn't participate at all in bringing down WRH/Nightless City and now he rushed over just to deal with the Yintie and the Wen sect remnants??? Plus, within just what looked like a few days (based on how WWX KO-ed for 3 days), JGS did a 180 and went from refusing to recognise MY/JGY as his son to not only recognising MY/JGY as his son but also giving him a new name and deputising him to do stuff AND calling him "A-Yao"?! (OK, I might be a bit biased here because to me, it only sounds right when LXC calls MY/JGY "A-Yao" lol). Anyways, the sheer hypocrisy of it all was truly astounding. -_-"

OMG NMJ, make up your mind already. Don’t be swayed by LXC’s sad/disappointed face! Hahaha. Like one moment NMJ was all, “Xichen, you are too soft-hearted about the Wen sect remnants. What if they catch us offguard and attack us?” And then RIGHT AFTER THAT (and a moment of silence), NMJ was like, “Uhh, maybe what Xichen said makes sense too. We should let these defenceless people off.”

It is just hilarious to me how MY/JGY suddenly had his infamous (tall) hat on so soon after the fall of Nightless City. Seems to imply that MY/JGY had his hat stashed away all along and was just waiting for a chance to wear it OR he somehow had his hat made within the couple of days in which he was dealing with the Wen sect remnants. XD

OH SHIT X3. The foreshadowing in the scene whereby WWX and LWJ were on the cliff and discussing (cougharguingaboutcough) the dangers of using the Yinhufu etc.was just-!

What was really well-done in the scene whereby everyone greeted one another at the banquet was how it showed all the simmering tensions. Like the way NMJ was still (very) skeptical about MY/JGY and the awkwardness between WWX and LWJ. And, of course, the way WWX basically rolled his eyes at JGS’s attempt at consoling JC.

God, do the Jins not understand NMJ’s character at all?! Or were they just trying to piss him off/test him? Did they really expect NMJ to sit at WRH’s throne during the banquet???

Heh, the live-action team just HAD to add that shot of LXC and JGY drinking with each other AND following it up with LWJ going out to look for WWX, didn’t they?

JGS, are you actually TRYING to make things awkward at the banquet or what? Why did you have to bring up the (broken off) engagement between JZX and JYL in front of everyone?! Why do you feel the need to assert your will and get your own way like that???

Overall: 10/10. Seamless blend of canon and non-canon elements of the Sunshot Campaign arc of the story. And this is DESPITE the fact that I was extremely annoyed by JGS throughout this episode.

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #陈情令 #魔道祖师 #mxtx #review #the untamed review #陈情令 review #chen qing ling

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reptileshrine · 6 years ago

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Top 25 Albums of 2018

As usual, compiling my top albums of the year has been a compelling, exhausting experience, having taken me an actual month of consternation, tweaking, writing, re-tweaking, deleting, and shifting. Too. Much. Good. Music. Even though every year is pretty hard I have to say that, despite my Number 1, which cemented itself relatively quickly and didn’t move despite the competition, choosing a short-list and ranking just a few of the phenomenal albums from this year was more of an impossible task than usual. But here it is, finally. With actual words, albeit the same few adjectives cycled over enough times to amply demonstrate my dwindling vocabulary and ability to use it. Spoiler alert; There is no Mopok, no Spectral Wound, no Andeis, no Panphage, no Sargeist, no Atra Mors, no Forest of Stars, no Paara, no Angantyr, no Moenen Of Xezbeth, among many many others. They could all have been there at some point, but at the time of committing this to the web, they are not. What this list is, is a rank of the albums which I have obsessed over the most, have affected me the deepest, have been turned up loudest on my stereo, and that I feel have pushed black metal into some interesting, transcendent or subversive directions. Behold! My favourite albums of 2018. 25. Make a Change Kill Yourself – IV Cursed Records This is a true masterclass in DSBM. Inspired composition and wretched, grey pall of an atmosphere, that still harbours a sense of hope, albeit an uneasy, precarious one which could drop into a pit of darkness any moment. The wait for new material from this project was well rewarded. (also worth noting how great the Angantyr album was too, but it’s not in my list).

IV by Make a Change... Kill Yourself

24. Majestic Mass - Savage Empire of Death Self-Released / Caligari Cool raggedy stuff that sounds like it’s about to come apart at the seams. I love the cooly melodic garagey rock n roll swagger slung underneath the fuzz. GREAT organ flourishes too. One of my most played albums of the year by far.

Savage Empire of Death by Majestic Mass

23. Everything by Harpag Karnik Erancnoir – Wintermonarchie / Frostfallen / Erancnoir Etheraldine – Shapes of Emerald / Euphony of Heralds / An Eyrie for Serenity Forelunar - Wine and the Limerent Self-Released These three projects offer different rays of light from the prism of Iranian Harpag Karnik. Each is a separate vision of atmospheric post-black metal; Erancnoir the most desolate, Etheraldine the most lush, and Forelunar for conveying deep emotions. Most of these releases are eps featuring two long 10+ minute tracks, which give ample time for the music to soak into you, set a scene and extrapolate their vocative and enchanting motifs.

Frostfallen by Erancnoir

An Eyrie for Serenity by Etheraldine

Wine and the Limerent by Forelunar

22. Enscelados - The Unbeknownst Tyrant Self-Released This mysterious band consists of two un-named international members (though one may possibly be based in Iran, as Harpag Karnik mixed them). They released two pieces in 2018, both one track, with this, the second release, expanding on the intent of the first. The twenty-minute piece uncoils a mobius strip of cosmically fluctuating trance, with a hypnotic beat and swaying riff that locks in for pretty much the full length, save for a small eddy of ambience. A singular vision that is immensely effective.

The Unbeknownst Tyrant by Enscelados

21. Schrat – Alptraumgänger Folter Records Primo old-school. Blistering pace and savage aggression offset by symphonic elements. Smells like 1995, and probably another one that should lead me back to Emperor. I hear some Sons of Northern Darkness in this one too. A+ artwork on this one as well. Love a good moonlit ritual in the forest.

Alptraumgänger by SCHRAT

20. Akitsa – Credo Profound Lore One of my favourite bands that hasn’t released an album that I completely love has just managed to do so (Ash Pool split not withstanding). This has the rawness, the aggression, the wildness and chaos, and the ferocious rocking riffs that have appeared sporadically across all their previous albums, but Credo has all those best bits channelled into a whole album.

Credo by AKITSA

19. Craft – White Noise and Black Metal Season of Mist The stunning return of an old band to a new form. The raging nihilism and wild chaos of previous releases was smoothed right down to a clear sheen for an album almost ironically called White Noise. But it is a surface sheen. Below it lies the same seething violence as before, made arguably more intense by the constraints of the cleanliness. Every song is packing dangerously sharp riffs, delivered with a psychotically dead-eyed precision and coolness that makes for an intimidating experience.

White Noise and Black Metal by Craft

18. Vilkacis – Beyond the Mortal Gate Psychic Violence Feral, raw atmospheric, melodic primal black metal with a spiritual theme, from the visionary M. Rekevics. A torrent of euphoric anguish that feels like a cathartic expulsion of squalid bitterness. Comparisons can be made to related USBM bands Fell Voices and Ash Borer for their strung-out electrically charged atmospheres, while simultaneously channelling the more abrupt aggression of Vrasubatlat bands.

Beyond the Mortal Gate by VILKACIS

17. Knokkelklang - Jeg Begraver Terratur Possessions Elevated blackened trance with a liquid ambient outro. The tone and layers of sheet noise riffs verge on DSBM, but there is a buoyancy to the rhythm and a cosmically searching direction that keeps this album cerebral.

Jeg Begraver by Knokkelklang

16. Urfaust – The Constellatory Practice Ván Records Otherworldly transcendental occult music, from these masters of a form of atmospherics which has always dwelt in a liminal space between doom, BM, and the greyed industrial rock of post-70’s UK; it is highly atmospheric, but of a form well outside the more popular Burzum riff-styled post-metal inspired atmoblack. My favourite release of theirs since Drei Rituale Jenseits des Kosmos.

The Constellatory Practice by Urfaust

15. Selvans – Faunalia AvantGarde Music My expectations were high for this, given Lupercalia was one of my favourite albums of 2015. Three years later, Selvans surpass that achievement with this gothically toned, medieval opus that has outshone the similarly ambitious Forest of Stars album for me, in the grand blackened-classical-concept album stakes. Faunalia is grandiose, but never overblown, trip through a stunningly complex yet coherent tapestry, woven with acoustic folk instruments, woodwind, strings, layers of vocals plus primal pagan black metal aggression to bind it together.

Faunalia by Selvans

14. Thy Dying Light – Forgotten By Time Death Kvlt Productions My introduction to Death Kvlt and the work of Azrael and Hrafn’s many bands. Forgotten by Time is a compilation of previous releases but makes for a cohesive album in its own right, mixing several styles of raw old-school black metal, and a dungeon black ambience to arresting effect. It starts off in spitefully violent fashion, and compels to the end.

Forgotten By Time by Thy Dying Light

13. Délétère - De Horae Leprae Sepulchral Productions This Québécois band, whose line-up features Atheos from the infamous Foretresse and Monarque, tells the conceptual story of a leper destined to become a Plague prophet of Centipèdes. It does so through raw, melodic, orthodox black metal in a style which flashes glimpses of Csejthe, Horna, and of course Fortresse. The opening series of gothic organ riffs is obliterated by a thundercrack of guitar which ushers in over an hour of epic rush. The speed and density of the drums and riffing could potentially be very claustrophobic, but each track finds space to expand and develop into passages of rage, elation, hysteria, heroism, and fevered mania. So yes, the concept works, and in Atrum Lilium might just offer my favourite song of the year.

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12. Acathexis - Acathexis Fallen Empire / Entropic Recordings A fitting end to a stellar run of albums this year from Fallen Empire, whose shuttering will leave a black hole that is unlikely to be filled in the same way. December’s swansong releases gave us the immense Death Fortress (somehow not in this list), Lubbert Das (waaaait for it), the dissonant Guðveiki and Serpent Column, and this; Acathexis. An album by a band curated by Fallen Empire itself, who played Déhà’s demos to Jacob Buczarski (Mare Cognitum), and then to vocalist Dany Tee (Downfall of Nur). A supergroup was born, and a stunning album of emotionally arresting, nuanced, inspired atmospheric black metal has been created. The guitar composition is sublime, drawing from every corner of the black metal spectrum, underpinned, pushed and pulled by Jacob’s excellent drum work; the instrumentals given life, death, elation and despair through the incredible range of vocal performances from Dany Tee.

Acathexis by Acathexis

11. Adaestuo - Krew Za Krew World Terror Committee The band comprises three members; Hekte Zaren providing vocals, multi-instrumentalists P.E. Packain / Vainaja (of Horna, Saturnian Mist, Neutron Hammer, Sargeist) and VJS (also Sargeist, Nightbringer, Kult ov Azazel) – their credentials are cosmic, and that is spretty much where they keep the tone of this album. The majority of it is ritual dark ambient and drone, spiked with three explosive black metal tracks. More than just a black metal album, this is alternate devotional, ritual offering and violent ordained execution.

Krew Za Krew by Adaestuo

10. Alkymist – Spellcraft Ceremony Self-Released/Vinyl-Compvlsion Ritualistic occult atmospheric black metal is the sub-sub-sub genre of bm that I am drawn to, though even then there are different versions of it. In his Alkymist guise, Noctis, aka Adrien Bloß, draws on sinuous repetition and the flickering shadows of candlelight to convey the ceremonial ambience while summoning the night terrors.

Spellcraft Ceremony by Alkymist (CAN)

9. Wayfarer – World’s Blood Profound Lore This album is deep, and seems to have been a bit of a sleeper hit. Took me several listens to fully appreciate the scope and detail of the landscape portrayed across the five tracks. An evocative, moody ride under huge thunderheads brewing over ominously desolate plains. Indeed, one track is even titled On Horseback They Carried Thunder. There is an atmosphere pregnant with danger, pressure building in the air of scratchy guitar melodies as lightning forms in the clouds of bass-lines, both instruments occasionally striking out with lightning flourishes. The whole album is underpinned and accentuated by a parched drum sound that often mimics the galloping of hooves and swirling eddies of dust. The blackened silhouette of a lone rider against muted browns sets an accurate tone for the sound of the album, which absolutely succeeds in expressing the scale and history of the wild Western US.

World's Blood by WAYFARER

8. Kriegsmaschine – Apocalypticists No Solace Everyone talks about the drumming, and yes Darkside has unparalleled visionary technique, but it is what the guitars are doing at the same time that brings out the full effect of them. They remind me of Joy Division with their combination of industrialised urban paranoia, existential dread and hostility, set to rhythmic piston percussion, droning trance guitars, and a raw vocal performance. Both strings and skins complementing each other in a minimal/maximal relationship which results in one of the most captivating and unique experiences in black metal.

Apocalypticists by Kriegsmaschine

7. Everything released by the ПРАВА Коллектив Fallen Empire Records, Amor Fati Productions, and Underground Soundscapes That’s the Prava Kollektiv, currently consisting of four projects: Arkhtinn, Mahr, Voidsphere, and HWWAUOCH with five releases between them in 2018. A group of musicians from somewhere in the world, possibly Russia judging by the Cyrillic they write their name in, and fallen Empire describing them as being “from the North”, but then again, possibly not, since Arkhtinn’s full album is titled in Japanese. Over five years after Arkhtinn’s first demo, they have done well to remain unmasked. Mysterious background aside, the music offers its own open interpretations. Arkhtinn have been putting out two-track demos with one fizzing, burning raw cosmic emission backed with a skein of dark ambient. On their album, they went for the double buzz and gave us two ferocious celestial slices of galactic trance. And where they look up, Mahr’s Antelux album tore it all down, using a similar template of pulsing starfire, grounding it in an earthier, more aggressive, primal, chaotic fashion. Voidsphere made their second offering of To Await | To Expect; two elevated tracks of disintegrating cosmic blackness, channeling all the blackened reverberating energies they could summon from the infinite void, and HWWAUOCH did their full-cap moniker justice by tearing out an Icelandic-style album of howling dissonance.

最初の災害 by Arkhtinn

Antelux by Mahr

To Await | To Expect by Voidsphere

HWWAUOCH by HWWAUOCH

6. Everything released by Haraesis Noviomagi A label that houses one of the most progressive, creative and consistent collectives of musicians operating in the black metal sphere, revolving around O, who runs the label and threads all bands together. He put out six releases this year, featuring each band from their roster plus a guest, and all releases are boundary pushing, third-eye opening mutations of the cosmic black metal order: De Ontkoppeling – De Ontkoppeling The only non-metal album from the collective, but still pitch-black in substance, delivering subterranean bass noise, squalid dark ambient feedback and disintegrating electronics.

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Solar Temple – Fertile Descent M. and O. put out their second release as Solar Temple, and it was another blackened helix of coruscating trance.

Fertile Descent by SOLAR TEMPLE

Iskandr – Euprosopon O’s solo project, deals with more rural, pagan themes, influenced by early Enslaved with lyrics addressing his homelands and geopsychology of living through particular environments. Possibly the most traditional sounding black metal of all HN releases, it is also the most radical departure from the core locked-groove hypnotics the rest of the bands channel.

Euprosopon by ISKANDR

Fluisteraars / Turia Split – De Oord Fluisteraars is O, A, and B, and this release is another milestone in their catalogue. Building from a subtle post-black beginning, it soon mutates into the most sublime, elegant, and euphoric astral-black. This stratospheric track is backed with the dank fetid claustrophobia of Turia (a three piece of O., J. and T). A gnarly, gut-churning contrast.

De Oord by FLUISTERAARS & TURIA

Vilkacis / Turia Split - Untitled The one was a co-release with Psychic Violence, borrowing Mike Rekevics’ Vilkacis from their roster to lay down two tracks which manage to best everything on his full album. Throw this into the tub when Final March Into Flame peaks. And again, Turia are on point, this time with an exotic dirge, as faintly eastern melodies judder out of the overblown amps and bind the clattering drum disintegration together.

VILKACIS / TURIA SPLIT by VILKACIS

Lubbert Das – De Plagen And finally, to Lubbert Das, comprised of O. J. and R. Shimmering sheets of guitars bend with a woozy unease, eerie melodies stalk the foreground, and drums switch from pounding to sparse punky rhythms. This cataclysmically raw, primeval darkened churn may almost be the perfect distillation of all other bands from this collective.

De Plagen by Lubbert Das

5. Candelabrum – Portals https://youtu.be/NZZIUD-CSrQ Black Cilice side-project that is as lo-fi as the main band, but less caustic. Mournful melodies are buried beneath a miasma of ritualisic occult noise. Here starts a theme for my favoured sound of 2018. One which has always fermented in the dankest corners of black metal, but bloomed in the most virulent manner throughout last year.

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4. Pa Vesh En – Church of Bones Iron Bonehead Productions So, the bloom spreads. Pa Vesh En put out a couple of releases this year, peaking with the sepulchral aural torture of Church of Bones. A pestilent miasma of putrid organ drone, petrified, mournful shrieks, ghastly voice and haunted melodies. It drags atmosphere out the air, grinds it through the earth to suffocate in the airless underground, mummifying this spectral black metal in a cloak of oppressive dirt.

Pa Vesh En - Church of Bones by Iron Bonehead Productions

3. VOËMMR - Sombr Moebrd Signal Rex Blood-curdling, ritualistic old-school crypt-dwelling misfit music of a macabre magick. The lugubrious, sickly swirl of organ a nightmarish carousel ride, spinning into giddiness. That sound of that thing is right up there, leading the dance of the raw drum pulse, waltzing a deliriously contorted path through the candlelight. This album is a constant shimmer of heady reverie, but twisted as fuck, and all the more sinister for the calculated way in which it spools out its gnashing chaos.

Sombr Moebrd by VOËMMR

2. Degredo - Noite dos Tempos Signal Rex The deepest, most far-reaching, umbral, otherworldly, conjuration of the year, and one which I cannot really describe any better than whoever writes the blurbs for the Signal Rex releases. They nail those descriptions every time, but I will try in my own words to describe this rawest of shamanist occult from the collective which I think is currently pushing black metal to its furthest limits; the Aldebraan Circle. Corrupting black metal’s traditional chaotic fury into a subducted trench of lightless trance, Degredo crystalise the primitive momentum of the genre into paranoid fractal patterns of static blackness, and slowly the throbbing sepulchral hypnagogia of this album falls upon the listener. Once the drum beat builds up the world stand still, and the walls move in. The riffs bear resemblance to the slow-motion dirge of SunnO))), but this album stands far out on its own, way down a disorienting hall of mirrors, and out of reach of most listeners. Paralysis. Claustrophobia. Tunnel vision. Darkness. Then clarity, elevation and revelation through staring into this black flame.

A Noite dos Tempos by Degredo

1. Över - Facing Transcendence AvantGarde Music Out of the darkness and into the light. A light of sorts. Overall, one of the less oppressive albums in my list, but certainly the most overwhelming. Mr Þórir Nyss has graced us with several albums from several projects this year, from ethereal post-black atmospherics to unruly, disturbing disharmonic noise. With Över, he and Malduchryst incorporate these elements, along with overt rock, squealing lead solos, doomy lurching, and passages of pure savage black metal to emotionally stupefying effect. The composition of this album is stunning, each track developing in a way which transcends genre limitations and defies your expectations. Take the watery introduction of Will that bleeds into a slow dirgy distorted riff. It picks up into hammering drums, juxtaposed by a twinkling keyboard motif. It slowly builds more intensity into each passage, introduces a lowing operatic clean vocal and the riffing intensifies until it peaks with (one of several) anthemic riffs. The euphoric surge of Över is Transcendence and how the astral elegance of that track is dismembered by a guttural riff and degraded into boiling noise. The liquid ambient riff of following track Owner and Slave that bursts into furious slashing riff and vicious snarl vocal, its proclamation of self-immolation and the subsequent life-loosening drift into harmonic solo and all-consuming climax. Just some of the many moments in this album that kept me coming back to it with obsessive regularity.

Facing Transcendence by Över

#albums of 2018 #albums of the year #2018

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promptosbouncybuns · 6 years ago

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Can we please not tear ships down or character bash because of our agendas?

This somehow became super long...sorry.

Wanna know what Mai and Aang have in common?

They are normally the two biggest recipients of, honestly, really stupid accusations.

Aang is apparently abusive in that he kissed Katara once while she wasn't very consenting to it at the time.

He's 12 and does stupid things but please hold him accountable for all time despite how disappointed in himself he looked right after. He didn't even pursue her after she stepped back. He saw his error and pulled away.

He apparently doesn't care about Katara? Despite literally giving up his chance to take full control of his avatar state just to go save her from a vision that may or may not have been real. I mean he could have just been like...ok...meh...Idc. Avatar state yip yip!

Then in LOK he just used her as a baby maker...never mind that apparently Katara had enough power or sway to outlaw bloodbending. Plus...guys...she's old when we see her in that series and has always been more family centered.

Not saying she became just a regular housewife after she married Aang but as stated before, she old! She's been through enough and if she wants some peace and solitude after dealing with the loss of her Friends, her Brother, and her Husband than...let the woman be pls. Even Toph didn't really want to fight anymore since old age had finally cought up with her and she's younger than Katara! If she doesn't want to fight but instead heal, let her do as she pleases. Plus you all sound like being a housewife and taking care of your children is a death sentance. Not all fighters are in the battle all the time.

Somehow Aang is also depicted as only seeing Katara as a trophy...Honestly I don't see how this got so convoluted but anyone who saw the series can say he doesn't think or her that way. He loves her, sees her as his best friend, and as probably one of the best masters to ever teach him. He's shown her tremendous respect as a friend, pupil, and love interest. He's listened to her and has grown from her wisdom.

Its also just crapping all over Katara as a character when people have this line of thinking. She's stronger than that, and would never be a prize to anyone, not even the avatar. If she wants to be with him she will. Kinda like how in the last episode when Aang walks out, she follows and is the one to kiss him.

I've always seen them as opposites, not in elements but in personalities. Also their similarites tend to correlate too!

Katara is at times a stick in the mud and Aang helps her have a childhood with the fun he brings her. She's had to grow up fast and undertake a lot of chores around her village. She's strong and outspoken, at times very loudly. She's passionate, even in the face of supposed peril, where there is no way she can prevail. She's strong and cares for others, almost to a fault since she took up precious days till the eclipse to help firenation people she didnt know.

Aang is a playful soul that hates being tied down. He'd rather have fun, and has been raised to seek leisure instead of responsibility. Its because of this that makes him so childish, until he meets her and is shown that his destiny is to bring balance to the world. He may not be physically strong but like Katara he isn't weak willed. He's passionate about protecting people and bringing harmony back to the four nations. While his passion isn't quite so loud, he can inspire people.

She's helped curb his childishness, and has helped instill in him responsibility. She won't let him shirk things off or procrastinate. She even was willing to let Aang learn waterbending without her because it was for the greater good.

Through these actions she's helped Aang embrace his old soul vibe and have it feel justified. He sees through her that what he does now will have an impact on the world and he best be getting to it.

I've always seen them as a couple that is silly, cute, and can get things done. I can see them being older and being more familiar with each other and it can lead to them having very intense intimate energy. I mean in the series, they're kids so...not really into thinking about them that way at that age. They can communate well so, there will be less fights and a lot of understanding. Definitely not boring.

As for Mai well...apparently people just don't understand her sense of humor and personality. She's got dry humor and is very direct in a lot of things. She doesn't sugar coat things and shys away from expression a lot of times.It somehow comes off as abusive?

Her telling Zuko to never break up with her again is supposed to be a joke, seeing as the last time he did, she literally had to save his bum from being boiled alive...

Then you have the infamous scene where they were together again after season 2 and while Zuko angsts, Mai tries to redirect his thoughts from such dark depths. Honestly, what do you say to that? Should you say its going to be ok? Because that just seems empty amd shallow.

Plus Mai, being emotionally stunted, doesn't really know how to navigate emotional waters. You also have to keep in mind that they finally get to have a conversation after all these years so obviously they aren't going to really know one another and how to communicate well.

So her not coddling and not letting him angst over things neither of them can know or deal with till it actually happens is dismissive of his abuse? I don't thinks so. Its honestly saying we will have to wait and see how things have changed once you are actually back home, so lets not dwell on them so much.

Of course, then you have her bringing up what happened last time Zuko was in a war meeting which is somehow abusive too. You know, its the same thing Iroh brought up in season 1 Ep. 3. So Iroh is abusive too now. It feels like people are saying don't bring up someone's abuse, ever, even if its to help them from potentially repeating the same pain.

She's trying to stop him caring and in her very direct way says that its not worth the pain of what could happen again if he attends. She's genuinely worried about him and doesn't want him hurt more physically or emotionally.

Then they like to say Mai doesn't care about Zuko really and that she just likes his status. They also say she's abusive with how she doesn't like anything he does for her. The biggest scene used is from the Beach showing Mai non-plussed by him giving her a shell and ice cream.

For one, Zuko wasn't acting like Zuko at all that first bit of the episode. He didn't take into account what Mai liked as apposed to what other girls liked. I mean while Ty Lee may like the shell, does that mean every girl has to like it otherwise they're a complete bish? Also...who here likes having ice cream fall on them? Honestly Mai could have made a huge deal about getting it on her but chose to crack a wry, but as always, dry joke about it.

Also please note that in this same episode Mai deals with an abusive S/O very correctly. Zuko's been acting off and it culminates with him pushing a guy back who happened to be talking to her. He makes a scene and insults her in front of everyone once she calls him out on his actions. Does she get even and call him worse? Nope. She simply says that their relationship is over and thats it. Though she looks conflicted by this, she stands firm despite Zuko trying to get handsy with her twice later in the episode. She holds him accountable but says she still loves him. I'd have an issue with this if they didnt have Zuko tell her and everyone whats been eating at him so long.

If she didnt know whats been making him act so hostile and crazy then how can she know that Zuko's not just an abusive jerk showing his true colors after all this time. Not saying that it made his actions right, but I feel her knowing the why instead of leaving it a mystery helped Mai reason through forgiving him.

As for her just wanting the power of his position, thats just really, really, really, lazy. She's from a noble family and is friends with the firenation princess...or as I like to say, unfortunately trapped in Azula's orbit. She'd be well off as it is if she kept her connection to Azula, but she didn't. She chose to go against a firebending prodigy, essentially turning her back on the firenation and her family to save the jerk who dumped her by letter.

Nope! Mai doesn't give a Flamio about Zuko himself. She just wants his title.

Opposites seem to attract and in this case its definitely with personalities since...ya know...Mai can't bend elements.

Zuko is passionately driven to a scary degree. He's hyper focused on finding the avatar despite the 100 years no one's seen them. He can be hot tempered and easily set off. He cares for people even to the point he'd rather starve than rob pregnant couple for food. He's brash, and doesn't think things through.

Mai is quietly, but strongly passionate for Zuko, even if its detrimental to her as with challenging Azula. She has learned to keep her temper and other emotions under lock and key, and is not easily set off. She cares about those she's put time and energy into. She's fairly classy, choosing her words wisely and she's definitely done a lot of thinking about what she wants or needs to do as far as her actions.

Zuko's shown that its ok to be expressive, and that its ok for her to do so. He wants to see her free of her parents emotional abuse so that she won't be so guarded.

Through Mai's personality, she's helped temper....Zuko's temper. He won't be so quick to flip his lid and do things without thinking them through. Like fire to a knife Zuko's helped make Mai burn bright and she's given him a sheith for his wild emotions.

I've always seen them as the quiet but intense love kinda couple. They may not have the best communication skills and this could lead to a lot of arguments but their love for one another is stronger. Eventually the sands of time will smooth them, break down walls and allow them to understand one another better.

I'm all for pretty much any ship in atla, and I love how fanfiction can actually help strengthen my love for it more than the actual show. The creativity and OOC that some writers pull off can be amazing and help you really like a character in a certain way or open your eyes to a new pairing.

However, if you wanna like ships, like them because you can, but don't go and take obviously innocent things and blow them out of proportion.

Here is convoluted, misconstrued, out of context information to say person X is evil and shouldnt be with person Y. W shouldn't be with person Z....therefore, Person Z and Person Y should be together because their partners are obviously abusive.

The...What? Three to maybe five episodes of screentime together as begrudgingly budding friends is enough to show exactly how they will be if they got together. Which these episodes can bring about interestingly creative ideas, however people act like that this is the definitive reason Z/Y should be together and any other pairing with the other two is completely abusive.

Just to be clear...if you like Zutara, thats great, I do too. I can imagine them in any number of ways. Them being enemies to lovers, or knowing each other before becoming star crossed lovers, or everythings all good in the univers and they love each other so so much!

However, in none of these headcannons do I see the need to bash Aang or Mai. I don't need to come up with stupid reasonings for Zuko and Katara to be together. If I want them to be together in a story or piece of art, I'll do it and be classy about it. I won't have Katara say Aang assaulted her and fly into Zuko's arms, pushing Mai down saying she's a manipulative bish. Because...she and Aang aren't.

At all.

Im just tired of the mental gymnastics shippers go through to spread hate for one ship so they can have another. Half the time its not even true facts but just people seeing it from an angle that aligns with their agenda.

If you like something, you like it, but don't crap on other ships or characters wrongly to justify it.

Sorry if this is a mess but god, seeing most of these accusations against Aang had me honestly cringing. I thought it was mainly against Mai because...she got Zuko and isn't bubbly, motherly, and...well Katara. So when Anti-Kataang reasons somehow showed up on the old dash, I felt my faith in humanity plummet.

Like...I hope you guys can sleep well at night knowing you've literally slandered a cinnamon roll who's in touch with his feelings, something most of you would protect if it where for any other ship. Like people just starting the series potentially arent going to be too keen on Aang himself at all simply because of this misinformation. But no...just to have one ship you equated this kid to a sexually abusive monster. Good job. 10/10. Slow 👏 for you guys. Be proud.

#zutara #maiko #kataang #anti-zutara #anti-maiko #anti-kataang #atla #a small rant at stupid reasons.#so done with charcter bashing #ship what you want #but dont be an ass about it

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futuresandpasts · 7 years ago

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Futures & Pasts | MRR #410

From Maximum Rocknroll #410 (July 2017): much-needed reissues of the Performing Ferret Band & Look Blue Go Purple, plus two new cassettes from the Australian underground via the Stroppies & Blank Statements. There’s also an interview that I did with early ‘80s No Wave/post-punk heroines Y Pants in #410, so if you’re looking to pick up an MRR back issue, you could do a lot worse than that one.

The history of the PERFORMING FERRET BAND should sound pretty familiar to anyone with even a cursory interest in scrappy, flipped-out late ‘70s/early ‘80s DIY in the UK: art-minded school friends acquire a reel-to-reel tape recorder and try their hand at making music inspired by the dryly absurd sensibilities of Monty Python and aided by “a broken tambourine, a mandolin case for a drum, a kazoo, and a pair of plastic sandals.” Some more friends ultimately come into the fold, the band morphs into something more closely resembling a standard post-punk combo (now with guitar, bass, and legitimate drums), and in 1978, they record a cassette that finds its way to John Peel’s radio program (naturally). The first three songs from that EP became a 7” single on the Dead Hippy label in 1980, which has just been reissued by Germany’s Insolito Records with the addition of a fourth track called “Convenience” that had been previously unreleased until Hyped to Death’s PERFORMING FERRETS CD anthology in 2008. There’s that infamous quote from Mark E. Smith that “if it’s me and your granny on bongos, it’s the FALL,” and if you were to add some shaky organ and amateurish melodica to that equation, it might as well be the PERFORMING FERRET BAND. Flatly-delivered vocals, seemingly non-sequitur lyrics, clattering drums, trebly guitar lines usually consisting of two or three notes at most, the textbook Messthetics band, really. The group’s impossibly rare LP from 1981 is apparently also getting the reissue treatment soon (courtesy of Spain’s Beat Generation label), so all of you FALL/HOMOSEXUALS/SWELL MAPS freaks out there will have twice the cause for celebration - you need both records, trust me! (Insolito, insolitorecords.bandcamp.com)

Everyone I know who heard those TERRY records from last year was completely taken by them (rightfully so), and if you also count yourself among the TERRY true believers, the new self-titled cassette from fellow Melburnians the STROPPIES should have you similarly smitten. There’s an obvious reverence in these seven songs for many of the same foundational texts studied closely by the current cohort of Australian underground popsmiths that includes the likes of CHOOK RACE, DICK DIVER, and TWERPS - not surprisingly, the STROPPIES have some personnel overlap with the latter two. The unassuming dual vocal melodies and freewheeling keyboard in “Go Ahead” are descended straight from the bright-eyed jangle of Flying Nun’s “big three” (the CLEAN, the BATS, and the CHILLS), while the comparatively moody “Celebration Day” pays tribute to the shambolic MODERN LOVERS-isms of the GO-BETWEENS’ early singles, and “No Joke” recalls the sort of US indie rock/slacker-pop championed in the early-to-mid ‘90s by fanzine writers and college radio DJs with multiple BUTTERGLORY and PAVEMENT records in their collections. DIY pop perfection, because Australia really does it better.

Half of the STROPPIES are also in BLANK STATEMENTS, who have their own new tape on Melbourne’s Hobbies Galore label as well. Signs Are Rampant largely dispenses with the chiming melodicism of the STROPPIES’ more overt Kiwi influences, instead putting minimalist, super-rhythmic bass lines and wobbly, droning organ at the forefront of their skeletal songs. At their most raucous, BLANK STATEMENTS sound like a lost femme-punk band in the KLEENEX tradition, like on “Accelerate,” which consists of little more than a minute of choppy snare hits, synth squealing in the background, and a delirious, repetitive group chant of “accelerate and break!”. But overall, Signs Are Rampant leans much closer to the homespun, paper-thin aesthetic of the bands that occupied the fringes of the pre-C86 Rough Trade/Cherry Red post-punk milieu - the MARINE GIRLS especially, but with traces of DOLLY MIXTURE and YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS hiding just beneath the surface, and more than a few nods given to the K Records-backed primitive-pop of fellow Aussies the CANNANES. Both cassettes are limited to 100 copies each, and I’d jump on them if you get the chance. (Hobbies Galore, hobbiesgalore.bandcamp.com)

Speaking of Flying Nun and the whole Dunedin sound, the brilliant all-female quintet LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE have often been lost in the shadow of some of their more well-known (and largely all-male) early-to-mid ‘80s contemporaries, although in my world, they’ve always been just as important as, say, the CLEAN, if not even more so. The three 12” EPs that they released between 1985 and 1988 have been incredibly hard to track down at non-collector scum prices for some time now, so Still Bewitched, Flying Nun’s new LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE double LP anthology, is honestly a dream come true (and this particular dream even includes seven previously unreleased live songs!). As you’d probably expect from any band that was a part of Flying Nun’s more pop-oriented faction, there’s plenty of frenetic guitar jangle in the mix, but LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE’s haunting multi-part harmonies, propulsive drumming, and flashes of darkly psychedelic organ paid one of the most sincere tributes to the VELVET UNDERGROUND in the 1980s, putting them on a similar wavelength as the FEELIES over in New Jersey at roughly the same time. The overlapping vocal melodies and knotted, shadowy post-punk undercurrent running through songs like “Hiawatha” and “Safety in Crosswords” also make it easy to understand why the band were often hailed as New Zealand’s version of the RAINCOATS (especially during the latter’s Odyshape/Moving era), while LBGP were never quite as spiky and ecstatically raw as their English counterparts - see the plaintive minor chords and ethereal flute centered in “As Does the Sun” or “Days of Old,” which aren’t very far removed from the atmospheric drones of late ‘60s acid folk. We’re barely halfway through 2017 and I’m already going to go ahead and call this one as the reissue of the year. (Flying Nun, flyingnun.co.nz)

#performing ferret band #the stroppies #blank statements #look blue go purple #futures & pasts #maximum rocknroll

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monikakrasnorada · 7 years ago

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This was my fault.

Since S4 aired, I’ve had Mycroft on the brain. I’m not sure why but there has been something about him and his role in the wonkiness of the series that I can’t shake. I’ve made some passing, rather rambly remarks about him in the past few months, but hadn’t taken the time to go back and watch to really see if I was perhaps onto something. I’m still not certain I am, but by re-watching and paying close attention, it feels as if my misgivings about him and his part in it all may not have been unfounded.

Naive as it is to admit, I was- all the way up to the airing of T6T- staunchly in the pro-Mycroft / over-protective big brother / means well / isn’t a baddie camp. Wellllll, yeah. I’m not so sure of that reading any longer. Something’s rotten in Denmark and I think that something occupies a minor position in the British government. This is my incoherent attempt to work through some of what is bothering me about Mycroft and hope that by the end, something of it all makes a bit of sense.

*I’m sure a lot of this has been brought up / discussed before by many others. This is in no way an attempt to claim these ideas as my own. Just trying to work through the thoughts as they come. Apologies in advance.*

Loads of pics and rambling word-vomit below the cut.

Mycroft

Living in a world of goldfish can’t be easy for the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes.

I love Mycroft. I’ve been a staunch advocate of his since the beginning. Naively touting that he really does have Sherlock’s best interests at heart. That his machinations couldn’t possibly be nefarious. Just a meddling, overbearing, too-deeply invested big brother that wants to be the hero of his baby bro. I still believe that to some degree. I don’t know why? I just can’t find it in my heart to accept he knowingly / wittingly played Moriarty’s game. Or, worse yet- that the game was all him and Moriarty happened to be a pawn as well.

I think a lot of my misgivings and willingness to excuse Mycroft’s actions up until now had a bit of a personal aspect for me. I have the kind of older brother that would (and has) done terrible awful things to me in order to make himself look good or to win the attention of other memebers of the family and make it a me vs him sort of deal. That’s not fun. It’s super harmful and I just wasn’t willing to accept the show I loved as my ‘get away’ from the nastiness that can be rl, would be the show that could kind of (if I squint my eyes just right) resemble a bit of my own family dynamic.

But, I digress.

What was his fault?

MYCROFT: This was my fault

SHERLOCK: This had nothing to do with you.

MYCROFT: A week in a prison cell and I should have realised.

SHERLOCK: Realised what?

MYCROFT: That in your case, solitary confinement is locking you up with your worst enemy.

This exchange from TAB was interesting. At the time it aired, it seemed only relevant to what had happened in that ep. Sherlock had used again to either figure out the reason Moriarty had returned via the Ricoletti case or he intended to die before his exile could begin.

S4 changed all that. To me, this seemed to become a much bigger admission of guilt on Mycroft’s part. But, what of it?

MYCROFT: Nobody deceives like an addict.

Throughout the entirety of the series, we’ve never witnessed Sherlock ‘the addict’. I think he may have been using off and on-

But only for the reasons he said:

SHERLOCK: I’m not an addict. I’m a user. I alleviate boredom and occasionally heighten my thought processes.

(though, I would add alleviating a broken heart to that list as well. Poor lamb.)

A disguise is always a self-portrait

Mycroft calling Sherlock out on his addiction in TAB, for me, is a bit of a pot / kettle situation. Sherlock isn’t ‘technically’ an addict, but there does seem to be a Holmes brother with an addiction problem- . Mycroft and his addiction to power and need to control every aspect of Sherlock’s life.

MYCROFT: I was there for you before.

SHERLOCK: Before what?

MYCROFT: I’ll be there for you again. I’ll always be there for you.

Mycroft admits in TAB, that it was his fault. They- he and Sherlock- have an agreement. Ever since that day. Which we are then led to believe was some random moment in the past that Sherlock had ODed and Mycroft had come to the rescue. None of which correlates to the true reason Sherlock is the man he is if any of TFP is to be taken at face-value.

If Mycroft’s vow was that he would always be there for him. (Oh, that sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before?)

Then where was Mycroft when Sherlock needed him after Mary’s death? As Sherlock spiralled out of control and went straight to hell??

More to the point, where was the infamous list in TLD? Mycroft was miffed to have been called out of a meeting with the Prime Minister but it was clearly evident he was aware of Sherlock’s using during the intervening time since Mary’s ‘death’ but didn’t do anything about it. Didn’t demand the ‘list’. Just brought his spooks in when Sherlock was practically dead to find out what ‘triggered’ his time ‘back on the sauce’. Hmmm.

Wow, so much for being the smart one there, Myc.

So, what exactly was Mycroft admitting fault to? The levels of that admission in TAB are staggering: Sherlock’s isolation in solitary confinement, his drug use, the reason for his drug use.

However, in TFP we get the real reason™ for Mycroft’s confession of guilt: the re-writing of Sherlock’s memories. The list of Mycroft’s misdeeds regarding his brother (nevermind Eurus at the mo, that’s a whole other can of worms) now seems endless and a little much to swallow from a normal human being. I’m sorry but Mycroft is no Svengali in any literal sense of the word. If he were capable of all of this- to be responsible for all of Sherlock’s trials and tribulations- then Mycroft’s influence is beyond compare.

Oh, but wait- No it isn’t.

That is one hell of a family trait!

I’ll be mother.

@gosherlocked wrote an interesting post about the Holmes family recently. In it she points out this line from the show:

“Every choice you ever made; every path you’ve ever taken – the man you are today … is your memory of Eurus.”

Which she then refutes beautifully with this comment:

Sorry, but no, Mycroft. This is not true. Sherlock may have been influenced by a lot of things but he cannot have become the man he is today just because of a non-existent memory. If he did not remember Eurus for decades, it is not possible that she has completely shaped his life.

Can you hear me screaming “THIS!” in response as I read that. Because that’s it right there in a nutshell, isn’t it? The whole reason nothing of this series makes a lick of sense because it completely edits and erases what came before it in the show.

And- HA! Isn’t that fucking hilarious because it’s exactly what Mycroft tells us at the beginning of T6T:

So, everything is up to Mycroft’s discretion. Interesting. Stick a pin in that thought because we will come back to it in a bit.

Alternatively

There are two instances where this word comes into play and is the main reason I am now compelled to write all this down (and hope that much smarter minds than mine can make the connection a lot clearer). It feels as if this word is pivotal to what has happened in the show since HLV.

Immediately following TAB, during the convos that brought @gosherlocked and @the-7-percent-solution and I together in order to birth EMP theory, I made a random post about this word appearing in the opening sequence of TAB:

noun:

1.a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things,propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility

adjective:

1.(of two things, propositions, or courses) mutually exclusive so that if one is chosen the other must be rejected

2.employing or following nontraditional or unconventional ideas,methods, etc.; existing outside the establishment

At that time, I merely found the word intriguing, in relation to what we were shown in TAB. The opening montage of what came before in the show up until the airing of TAB was a bit mind boggling. Not only was the timeline questionable, but the things which they decidedly omitted was a head-scratcher.

What happens once the alternative is introduced?

Immediately following his exchange with Lady S and Sir Edwin, where the alternative was first discussed:

MYCROFT: In any event, there is no prison in which we could incarcerate Sherlock without causing a riot on a daily basis. The alternative, however ... would require your approval.

LADY SMALLWOOD: Hardly merciful, Mr Holmes.

Which really, Mycroft? Really?

We are meant to believe the only alternative for Sherlock having killed CAM was a six-month suicide mission? When Sherrinford exists for the ‘uncontainables’?

The alternative is a turning point.

Nothing is ever the same in this show once that word is introduced. It immediately cuts to the tarmac scene and what do we get?

The first inkling that something is fishy with Mary’s characterisation:

No one expected this turnaround, did they? What’s a little fatal shooting between besties, right?

Then we have this painful exchange. The last words between two men that have thought the sun rose and set on one another. The best and wisest and bravest man the other has ever known and they have nothing of importance to say to each other as Sherlock goes off (if not to John’s knowledge of certain death, clearly you would think Sherlock having killed a man to save his family) John could nut up and say THANK YOU, AT LEAST????

AN ABORTED LOVE CONFESSION FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!!!!

But (and here I’m shootting myself in my own EMP foot) isn’t this how all of this might have played out through the lens of an emotionally-constipated, not-good-with-humans person?

Perhaps this is Mycroft’s alternative tale. Editing. TD 12. Eurus’ influence. There’s no surprise that something has changed in the way this story is told. Maybe it’s the narrator. Maybe it’s simply Sherlock imagining the alternative because he knows Mycroft is at the heart of the problem, so he has put him front and center. I don’t know and I’m not sure any of us can really know until we get more (please, let us get more and answers to all of this)

What I am saying is that I don’t believe alternative was an accident.

Previously

In both TAB and T6T, we get this sort of thing at the beginning ^^. A montage of highlights to get us back up to speed. Again, something is fuuuuucky, because in neither one is there ever a callback to Mary shooting Sherlock.

From the moment we get the alternative, we get the retcon of Mary Morstan. Why? They solidly built her character to be the most amazing villain of the show. I daresay, capable of surpassing Moriarty in good old-fashioned nastiness.

And, it isn’t just Mary that is re-worked. No one since before the tarmac has been in character. I had previously stated my belief that S4 was merely a continuation of TAB- the Victorian personifications brought into the 21st century. It was John’s hair, of all things, that made me realise this as a possibility because it explains the why of John’s hair and Sherlock never bothering to mention it. But, looking at S4 in that vein, really did explain a lot- and make sense of the nonsensical- in a way nothing else had until that point.

I’m not saying I don’t still believe this isn’t all in Sherlock’s head- I do!- I just think that Mycroft has influenced it all much more than anyone originally thought.

Mycroft sees Sherlock as the child he still has to protect and I believe Sherlock subconsciously knows that, hence the exuberant andchild-like actions Sherlock has at the beginning of T6T. All of S4′s characterisations so wrong as to be laughable. Perhaps it’s howSherlock imagines Mycroft imagines them all to be?

Mycroft lied to us.

He told Sherlock and John about Redbeard. He apparently helped arrange their stunt to get onto Sherrinford, so why did he perpetuate the lie? He knew Sherlock was confronting Eurus and she would tell him the truth. Or, no, as a matter of fact, she never said a word about Victor.

Just that they never had a dog. The Victor bit was Sherlock’s own idea. But we saw the dog bowl. If Eurus brought Sherlock to Sherrinford to get emotional context to get to the truth of his repressed memories, why did she perpetuate the Redbeard story? She wanted him to remember “you don’t know about Redbeard”. She had him at Musgrave to reveal the story, but she kept the dog dish. Is this because it is really Mycroft’s mind and he still wanted to keep Sherlock from remembering?

No repercussions for Mycroft after Sherrinford.

All of that planning, plotting, scheming, disguises, setting up an asylum as your own version of Saw- for what? Emotional context? Her oldest brother lied to her parents about her death, kept her locked away and isolated for years. Exploited her abilities for his own gain and she did nothing to him when she had the chance? This woman, who as a 6 year old, killed her brothers best friend because he wouldn’t play with her?

Is Eurus some manifestation of Mycroft? There seems to be a theme here, and I can’t make the connections, so I want to add it and see if anyone else can connect the dots.

Cross-dressing Uncle Rudy and Lady Bracknell. Is Uncle Rudy a ‘codename’ for Mycroft? An invention, like Eurus, to keep Sherlock in line somehow? The East Wind?

Eurus’ song

As I wind down here with this whacked-out non-sense, I just want to leave this here. The last stanza of Eurus’ song and a reference we have seen made by Mycroft many times before:

Without your love he’ll be gone before Save pity for strangers, show love the door My soul seek the shade of my willow’s bloom Inside, brother mine Let Death make a room.

I have loads more about Mycroft I want to share, but I think this is already too long as it is, so I’ll say, if you’ve stuck around this far: stay tuned for part 2.

@loveismyrevolution @gosherlocked @ebaeschnbliah @isitandwonder @tjlcisthenewsexy @the-7-percent-solution @tendergingergirl @yan-yae @impossibleleaf @shadow3214 @shawleyleres @fvkingstraightculture @themanandthemachine @may-shepard @sarahthecoat

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A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL THE ALBUMS I LISTENED TO IN 2016

1. Björk—Vulnicura (2015)

2. The Smashing Pumpkins—Adore (1998)

3. David Bowie—Blackstar (2016)

4. ABBA—Arrival (1976)

5. Elton John—Caribou (1974)

6. Red Hot Chili Peppers—Californication (1999)

7. “Weird Al” Yankovic—Off the Deep End (1992)

8. Bob Dylan—Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

9. Anderson .Paak—Malibu (2016)

10. Brandi Carlile—Brandi Carlile (2005)

11. Ravi Shankar—The Sounds of India (1968)

12. Enya—Shepherd Moons (1991)

13. Michael Jackson—Off The Wall (1979)

14. Kendrick Lamar—untitled unmastered. (2016)

15. Frank Zappa—Hot Rats (1969)

16. Billy Joel—The Stranger (1977)

17. Bob Dylan—Nashville Skyline (1969)

18. Adele—19 (2008)

19. Carole King—Tapestry (1971)

20. Ween—The Mollusk (1997)

21. Ween—The Pod (1991)

22. Funkadelic—Maggot Brain (1971)

23. Kelly Hogan—I Like to Keep Myself in Pain (2012)

24. The Breeders—Last Splash (1993)

25. Adele—25 (2015)

26. Paula Cole—This Fire (1996)

27. Charles Mingus—Oh Yeah (1962)

28. Morrissey—Vauxhall and I (1994)

29. The Millennium—Begin (1968)

30. Metallica—Master of Puppets (1986)

31. The La’s—The La’s (1990)

32. Slayer—Reign in Blood (1986)

33. Janet Jackson—Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)

34. Natalie Merchant—Tigerlily (1995)

35. Cannonball Adderley—Somethin’ Else (1958)

36. The Smiths—The Smiths (1984)

37. Wings—Venus and Mars (1975)

38. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds—Your Funeral… My Trial (1986)

39. Beyoncé—Lemonade (2016)

40. Bee Gees, et al.—Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1977)

41. Ween—Chocolate and Cheese (1994)

42. Elliott Smith—XO (1998)

43. Sonic Youth—Daydream Nation (1988)

44. Prince and the Revolution—Parade (1986)

45. Prince and the Revolution—Around the World in a Day (1985)

46. The Grindmother—Age of Destruction (2016)

47. Prince—Controversy (1981)

48. Tegan and Sara—The Con (2007)

49. Death Grips—Bottomless Pit (2016)

50. Love 666—American Revolution (1995)

51. Sleater-Kinney—Call the Doctor (1996)

52. Radiohead—A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

53. Drake—Views (2016)

54. Slowdive—Souvlaki (1993)

55. Can—Tago Mago (1971)

56. Chance the Rapper—Coloring Book (2016)

57. Kaytranada—99.9% (2016)

58. White Lung—Paradise (2016)

59. Teen Suicide—It’s The Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot (2016)

60. Parquet Courts—Human Performance (2016)

61. Anohni—Hopelessness (2016)

62. A Tribe Called Quest—People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990)

63. PWR BTTM—Ugly Cherries (2016)

64. Bongwater—The Power of Pussy (1991)

65. Metallica—Ride the Lightning (1984)

66. Frankie Cosmos—Next Thing (2016)

67. Har Mar Superstar—Best Summer Ever (2016)

68. Father—I’m a Piece of Shit (2016)

69. Bootsy’s Rubber Band—Bootsy? Player of the Year (1978)

70. Tegan and Sara—Love You to Death (2016)

71. Peaches—The Teaches of Peaches (2000)

72. Paul Simon—Stranger to Stranger (2016)

73. Julien Baker—Sprained Ankle (2015)

74. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down—A Man Alive (2016)

75. Hüsker Dü—New Day Rising (1985)

76. Brian Eno—Another Green World (1975)

77. Sturgill Simpson—A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (2016)

78. Sleater-Kinney—Sleater-Kinney (1995)

79. Mazzy Star—She Hangs Brightly (1990)

80. Lake Street Dive—Side Pony (2016)

81. Billy Joel—52nd Street (1978)

82. Whitney—Light Upon the Lake (2016)

83. Modern Baseball—Holy Ghost (2016)

84. Nurse with Wound—Homotopy to Marie (1982)

85. Diamanda Galas—Plague Mass (1991)

86. Pinegrove—Cardinal (2016)

87. The Replacements—Let It Be (1984)

88. Gang of Four—Entertainment! (1979)

89. Novelty Daughter—Semigoddess (2016)

90. Meat Loaf—Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993)

91. XTC—English Settlement (1982)

92. Kevin Morby—Singing Saw (2016)

93. Os Mutantes—Os Mutantes (1968)

94. Ehiorobo—Limeade (2016)

95. Kate Bush—The Dreaming (1982)

96. clipping.—Wriggle EP (2016)

97. Barenaked Ladies—Gordon (1992)

98. Fitz and the Tantrums—More Than Just a Dream (2013)

99. Car Seat Headrest—Teens of Denial (2016)

100. Kanye West—The Life of Pablo (2016)

101. Elvis Costello and the Attractions—This Year’s Model (1978)

102. Hinds—Leave Me Alone (2016)

103. Mr. Bungle—Disco Volante (1995)

104. case/lang/veirs—case/lang/veirs (2016)

105. Peter Gabriel—Car (1977)

106. Pink Floyd—The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

107. Lucinda Williams—The Ghosts of Highway 20 (2016)

108. Genesis—Foxtrot (1972)

109. Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle—Colvin and Earle (2016)

110. Peter Frampton—Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)

111. Nails—You Will Never Be One of Us (2016)

112. Mercury Rev—Boces (1993)

113. Jim Steinman—Bad for Good (1981)

114. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith—EARS (2016)

115. Yma Sumac—Mambo! (1954)

116. Blood Orange—Freetown Sound (2016)

117. Barbra Streisand—Barbra Streisand…and Other Musical Instruments (1973)

118. Leslie Odom, Jr.—Leslie Odom, Jr. (2016)

119. Magma—Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh (1973)

120. Disclosure—Settle (2013)

121. Aphex Twin—CHEETAH EP (2016)

122. Gong—Flying Teapot (1973)

123. The Avalanches—Wildflower (2016)

124. American Football—American Football (1999)

125. Esperanza Spalding—Emily’s D+Evolution (2016)

126. Kevin Gates—Islah (2016)

127. Mobb Deep—The Infamous (1995)

128. Anna Meredith—Varmints (2016)

129. Morrissey—Southpaw Grammar (1995)

130. Maxwell—blackSUMMERS’night (2016)

131. Fetty Wap—Fetty Wap (2015)

132. Mitski—Puberty 2 (2016)

133. The Rolling Stones—Exile on Main St. (1972)

134. Underworld—Second Toughest in the Infants (1996)

135. The Cure—Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987)

136. dvsn—SEPT. 5TH (2016)

137. Neko Case—Blacklisted (2002)

138. Porches—Pool (2016)

139. G.L.O.S.S.—Trans Day of Revenge (2016)

140. Sheer Mag—III EP (2016)

141. ScHoolboy Q—Blank Face LP (2016)

142. The Pogues—If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1988)

143. James Blake—The Colour in Anything (2016)

144. Spiritualized—Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)

145. The Velvet Underground—The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

146. Kamaiyah—A Good Night in the Ghetto (2016)

147. Brian Eno—Here Come the Warm Jets (1973)

148. King Crimson—In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

149. Aesop Rock—The Impossible Kid (2016)

150. Elysia Crampton—Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City (2016)

151. The Decemberists—Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003)

152. Jamila Woods—HEAVN (2016)

153. Jethro Tull—Thick as a Brick (1972)

154. Moodymann—DJ-Kicks (2016)

155. KMD—Mr. Hood (1991)

156. Vijay Ayer and Wadada Leo Smith—A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (2016)

157. Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison—In Movement (2016)

158. Brian Eno—Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974)

159. Echo and the Bunnymen��Ocean Rain (1984)

160. Debo Band—Ere Gobez (2016)

161. Noname—Telefone (2016)

162. Elza Soares—A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (2016)

163. Godspeed You! Black Emperor—Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

164. Megadeth—Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? (1986)

165. The Higher Up—The Higher Up Album (HGHR) (2016)

166. Vektor—Terminal Redux (2016)

167. Yes—Relayer (1974)

168. King Crimson—Red (1974)

169. A Giant Dog—Pile (2016)

170. King Crimson—Discipline (1981)

171. Caravan—In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971)

172. Tim Hecker—Love Streams (2016)

173. Steve Winwood—Arc of a Diver (1980)

174. Blur—Parklife (1994)

175. Emerson, Lake & Palmer—Brain Salad Surgery (1973)

176. Lil Yachty—Lil Boat (2016)

177. Brian Eno—Discreet Music (1975)

178. Deakin—Sleep Cycle (2016)

179. Rush—Hemispheres (1978)

180. Deftones—Gore (2016)

181. Frank Ocean—Endless (2016)

182. Destroyer—Kaputt (2011)

183. Van der Graaf Generator—Pawn Hearts (1971)

184. Huerco S—For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) (2016)

185. Frank Ocean—Blonde (2016)

186. Dexys Midnight Runners—Too-Rye-Aye (1982)

187. Yes—Close to the Edge (1972)

188. Woods—City Sun Eater in the River of Light (2016)

189. Sixpence None the Richer—Sixpence None the Richer (1997)

190. BADBADNOTGOOD—IV (2016)

191. Beastie Boys—Ill Communication (1994)

192. The I.L.Y.s—Scum with Boundaries (2016)

193. Mike Oldfield—Tubular Bells (1973)

194. Brian Eno—Before and After Science (1977)

195. CupcakKe—Cum Cake (2016)

196. The Moody Blues—Days of Future Passed (1967)

197. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard—Nonagon Infinity (2016)

198. Kvelertak—Nattesferd (2016)

199. Lil Yachty—Summer Songs 2 (2016)

200. A-WA—Habib Galbi (2016)

201. Chromatics—Night Drive (2007)

202. The Jimi Hendrix Experience—Axis: Bold as Love (1967)

203. Miles Davis—Sketches of Spain (1960)

204. Gojira—Magma (2016)

205. Atheist—Unquestionable Presence (1991)

206. Hammers of Misfortune—Dead Revolution (2016)

207. Brian Eno—Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)

208. Brian Eno—Music for Films (1978)

209. Skepta—Konnichiwa (2016)

210. Angel Olsen—My Woman (2016)

211. Sepultura—Arise (1991)

212. Inter Arma—Paradise Gallows (2016)

213. Van Morrison—Common One (1980)

214. Ka—Honor Killed the Samurai (2016)

215. Motion Graphics—Motion Graphics (2016)

216. Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach—Money Jungle (1963)

217. Kanye West—808s and Heartbreak (2008)

218. Of Montreal—Innocence Reaches (2016)

219. Young Thug—Jeffery (2016)

220. Animal Collective—Painting With (2016)

221. Run-DMC—Raising Hell (1986)

222. Isaiah Rashad—The Sun’s Tirade (2016)

223. Sam Gellaitry—Escapism II EP (2016)

224. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds—Skeleton Tree (2016)

225. The Notorious B.I.G.—Ready to Die (1994)

226. Travis Scott—Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016)

227. Mike Muli—What [You] Desperately Need (2016)

228. Matmos—Ultimate Care II (2016)

229. Meat Loaf—Braver Than We Are (2016)

230. Okkervil River—Away (2016)

231. St. Paul & the Broken Bones—Sea of Noise (2016)

232. Wilco—Schmilco (2016)

233. Arca—Entrañas (2016)

234. Pavement—Slanted and Enchanted (1992)

235. clipping.—Splendor and Misery (2016)

236. Laura Mvula—The Dreaming Room (2016)

237. Danny Brown—Atrocity Exhibition (2016)

238. Fleetwood Mac—Mirage (1982)

239. Bon Iver—22, A Million (2016)

240. Joey Purp—iii drops (2016)

241. Frank Ocean—nostalgia, ULTRA (2011)

242. Vince Staples—Prima Donna (2016)

243. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam—I Had a Dream That You Were Mine (2016)

244. Beach House—Teen Dream (2010)

245. Open Mike Eagle & Paul White—Hella Personal Film Festival (2016)

246. Preoccupations—Preoccupations (2016)

247. Built to Spill—Keep It Like a Secret (1999)

248. Solange—A Seat at the Table (2016)

249. Guided by Voices—Please Be Honest (2016)

250. The Notorious B.I.G.—Life After Death (1997)

251. Jenny Hval—Blood Bitch (2016)

252. Cocteau Twins—Blue Bell Knoll (1988)

253. Mykki Blanco—Mykki (2016)

254. Leonard Cohen—Songs of Love and Hate (1971)

255. Leonard Cohen—You Want it Darker (2016)

256. Leonard Cohen—New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)

257. Pixies—Head Carrier (2016)

258. Angelo Badalamenti—Twin Peaks soundtrack (1990)

259. Crying—Beyond the Fleeting Gales (2016)

260. GZA—Liquid Swords (1995)

261. Jeff Rosenstock—WORRY. (2016)

262. Cynic—Focus (1993)

263. Touché Amoré—Stage Four (2016)

264. Busta Rhymes—The Coming (1996)

265. American Football—American Football (2016)

266. A Tribe Called Quest—The Low End Theory (1991)

267. Rihanna—ANTI (2016)

268. A Tribe Called Quest—Midnight Marauders (1993)

269. Death Grips—Interview 2016 (2016)

270. A Tribe Called Quest—We Got It from Here…Thank You 4 Your Service (2016)

271. Leonard Cohen—Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977)

272. Mannequin Pussy—Romantic (2016)

273. Childish Gambino—Because the Internet (2013)

274. Kero Kero Bonito—Bonito Generation (2016)

275. serpentwithfeet—blisters EP (2016)

276. Scott Walker—Tilt (1995)

277. Bruno Mars—24K Magic (2016)

278. PUP—The Dream is Over (2016)

279. Tori Amos—Boys for Pele (1996)

280. Goldie—Timeless (1995)

281. Childish Gambino—“Awaken, My Love!” (2016)

282. Fatboy Slim—You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)

283. Stereolab—Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)

284. The Verve—Urban Hymns (1997)

285. Metallica—…And Justice for All (1988)

286. Various Artists—A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (1963)

287. Bruce Springsteen—Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)

288. Injury Reserve—Floss (2016)

289. The 1975—I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (2016)

290. The Orb—The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991)

291. Jeremih & Chance the Rapper—Merry Christmas Lil Mama (2016)

292. Margo Price—Midwest Farmer’s Daughter (2016)

293. George Michael—Faith (1987)

294. Brian Eno & Harold Budd—Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980)

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#ThisisUs - "Clooney" S2/Ep 12 Recap & Review

Just as I sat down to watch last night’s TIU episode, “Clooney,” a meteor hit in Michigan! From my spot on the couch, I saw a big flash of light, heard a loud boom and then the earth shook! It was all very dramatic but the last scene of last night's TIU was much more impactful! But we’re not going to talk about that yet. We have too much too much to cover first.

So, lets begin...

The first scene is that of a stray cat wandering through the streets dodging cars and people. Turns out that this was William’s cat, Clooney. William didn’t bring him when he moved in with Randall but William went back home at least once a week to check on him.

It looks like Kevin is leaving rehab and his therapist is concerned about his return to his life in Hollywood so soon. Flippant, “actor” Kevin is back. He tries to charm Dr. Barbara by calling her ? but she knows that he’s just trying to hide the fact that he’s worried about returning to his old life too. So, Kevin will be staying with Rebecca and Miguel for a time. Considering all the things that he said to his mom during the infamous therapy session and his animosity towards Miguel, oh boy, this is going to be interesting.

In this week’s flashback, Jack is building an entertainment center for Rebecca. As they talk about it in the kitchen, Kate comes in and asks Rebecca to take her to the mall for a dress for the school dance. Rebecca is thrilled! Jack needs a new suit for work and they need batteries for the smoke detector. Randall wants to go too.

Kevin is camped out on the sofa and in no hurry to leave it but Jack wins and the all of the Pearson’s head to the mall. Once there, Kate and Rebecca head to the dress shop, Randall heads off on his own mission, Jack and Kevin shop for suits.

Kate finds a dress and heads off to the fitting room with the same dress in several sizes. As Rebecca waits, Kate leaves the fitting room empty handed and bolts from the store without her mom.

Kevin and Jack run into Miguel at the mall. Miguel tells them that his ex-wife is engaged. Miguel isn’t too happy about it. Jack starts his usual, when God closes a door speech, Kevin speaks up and says that sometimes people just need a moment to feel bad. Miguel agrees. Jack smiles and lets them have their moment. As Jack, Kevin and Miguel have lunch at the Food Court, the conversation leads to Miguel’s revelation that Jack wanted to open his own construction business but didn’t because of his growing family, it wasn’t the right time.

Randall’s mall mission is revealed and it’s about asking a girl out. First attempt was a fail. Second attempt seems to work. It doesn’t look good at first but then he charms her when he says to let the 8 Ball decide. She does and though she doesn’t actually say yes, it looks like mission accomplished.

As Jack and Kevin admire their choice of suits, they have a really good bonding moment. Kevin is pleased when Jack exuberantly tells him how great he looks. You can see in Kevin’s face how much his father’s praise means to him.

Later, Rebecca finds Kate after looking everywhere. Kate tells her mom that none of the dresses fit. Rebecca wants to try a different store but Kate refuses.

Present day Kate is back at her group meeting and is telling them about her miscarriage and the junk food she’s been sneaking. She also tells the group about the wedding and how stressed she is about finding a dress. Later, Madison tells her about a dress designer she knows that would create a dress for her. Kate agrees to check it out and her and Madison head to the store. Inside the store, Madison spies cookies and starts eating them. As Kate talks to the assistant about a dress, Madison seems distracted and abruptly excuses herself to go to the bathroom. Kate knows why and when they leave the dress store and Kate confronts Madison about her eating disorder. Madison tells Kate to find her own way home and storms off.

Later that evening, Kate gets a call from Madison and rushes to her apartment. There she finds Madison on the floor of her bathroom with a cut on her forehead. She tells Kate that when she came home, she started eating and then went to the bathroom. She got dizzy and must have fallen. This scared her enough to call Kate. Kate shares her own story about how she once did lose all the weight and got really skinny. But, Kate says, she wasn’t happy that way. Madison tells Kate she’s her best friend. Awkward.

Randall is helping the girls with a diorama for school. Beth comes in to the kitchen and is upset about a failed business deal. She is also feeling the stress of Randall not working and needs him to promise her that he will go to a job interview he has scheduled later that day. He won’t miss the interview but first, there is a box of William’s belongings that he is going to pick up at his old apartment. At William’s old building, he picks up the box from a neighbor. Randall asks about Clooney the Catt and finds out that the cat took off a couple of weeks ago. Never fear, the man says, a stray always seems to end up just where he needs to be.

In the car, Randall looks through his father’s things. He finds a book of poems that William wrote and is surprised to find that there is a love poem that seems to be talking about a woman in the building that he was in love with. Randall sets off on another mission – to find this woman! He leaves a note on the bulletin board requesting info about this woman.

Randall heads to the interview but stops by Beth’s workplace first. He’s going on and on about this woman and Beth is clearly irritated because she is slammed with work. She scolds Randall a bit, telling him that lately he seems to be walking above the clouds and she needs him to come back down to earth. During the interview, Randall gets a phone call and excuses himself to take it. It’s William’s friend and he thinks the mystery woman may be the building super and Randall heads back to find this woman. He knocks on the woman’s door, identifies himself as William’s son and the woman says that William was a pain in her ass. She cracks up when asked if they were romantic and she tells Randall that William took it upon himself to let her know when building repairs needed to be made. He was relentless. Randall shows the woman William’s poem. She takes Randall back to his father’s apartment and Randall sees that the woman in the poem is Billy Holliday, whose poster is on the wall.

We haven’t talked about Kevin yet! Kevin arrives at Rebecca and Miquel’s home. It’s a little awkward at first and Kevin is looking forward to the opportunity to have some mother/son time to rebuild their relationship after the therapy session. So when Rebecca and Kevin plan a trip to the grocery store, Kevin is irritated when Miguel says he’s going too. At the grocery store, Kevin confronts Miguel and asks him why he had to tag along when he knew that he wanted alone time with his mom. Miguel tells Kevin that after what happened at rehab, Miguel came with them to protect his wife, should she be hurt again by Kevin. I’m not sure but I think Miguel standing up to him earned Miguel a little bit of respect from Kevin.

Back at home, Kevin walks into the room and finds Rebecca and Miguel sitting on the couch cuddling. They pull apart when Kevin walks in. Kevin is feeling restless so Rebecca goes to make Kevin some tea. He uses this time alone with Miguel to apologize and asks him if he was in love with Rebecca even when Jack was alive. Miguel says NO! There was never any feelings other than friendship. The thought of that would have never crossed his mind.

Kevin has a moment to Rebecca alone and asks her about her and Miguel. Rebecca tells him that after Jack died, there were things she knew she had to give up. Happiness was one of them. Getting from one day to the next was the most important thing for her and the kids. But one day, she and Miguel found each other and he makes her happy – truly happy. Kevin finally seems to accept that.

Clooney, the cat is being chased through the streets by children in an attempt to catch him. One little boy does and Clooney finds a new home.

Randall has found his new purpose and is excited to share it with Beth. Beth is not quite so enthusiastic but is there to support Randall. They pull up outside of William's apartment building where Randall has spent most of his day. Confused, Beth gets out of the car as Randall announces that he wants them to buy this building and fix it up so the people that live there can have the home they deserve.

We end the show with Rebecca and Jack on the couch after the day at the mall. Rebecca asks Jack to talk to Kate. She knows that there’s something going on with her but Rebecca also knows that Kate won’t confide in her. Moments later, Jack drops a bombshell announcement! He wants to quit his job and start the construction company he has always dreamed about. Rebecca is shocked but after a moment, she seems to be all in!

This brings us to the final moment of the episode. As the final scene fades out, we get a close up shot of the smoke detector with NO BATTERIES! With so much going on at the mall that day, neither Jack nor Rebecca thought about batteries! The camera hovers there for a moment to give us all the chance to realize what we’re looking at. OMG! We don’t know the exact cause of the fire yet but now it appears that if the smoke detector had been operational, Jack might have survived! The suspense is maddening. Slowly, TIU writers are giving us clues about Jack’s death, but the biggest mystery on television right now is still that – a mystery.

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scenesplitterworld-blog · 7 years ago

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La Musica in Persona – HxM Live: An Evening With Belphegor & Friends

November 20th 2017 – The Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM

Belphegor w/ Cryptopsy and Panzerfaust

Albuquerque has had a pretty amazing year for not only extreme Metal tours but great tour packages in general visiting our beloved Duke City. More often than not, most tours often skip over our tertiary market of a town (RIP in Peace BTBAM Colors 10 year Anniversary Tour; It’s understandable, for who wants to book shows in a town where the attendance fluctuates from a full house to a consistent 5-10 people attending said shows?) Thankfully, 2017 has been very different. We had Marduk and Incantation come to the Launchpad back in February to a decent crowd. Darkest Hour came and held a celebratory album release tour with an ABQ date with Rivers of Nihil and Tombs back in March. Math-Rock up-starts in Covet played an epic headlining date back in April (Which we covered here). The summer was also pretty incredible, with Suffocation, Morbid Angel, and the Black Dahlia Murder (who headlined this years Summer Slaughter by playing their decade old classic Nocturnal in it’s entirety [you can read our editor-in-chief Bloomer’s review of this event here: https://www.scenesplitter.net/blog/2017/8/12/decade-of-the-warborn-nocturnal-slaughter]) stopping into town on their respective headlining tours and putting on impeccable performances. As for the fall, HxM favorites A Perfect Circle came into town in October (covered here) and played an incredibly profound performance that touched the heart of our editor. Mayhem, Immolation, and Black Anvil played the Historic El Rey Theater in mid November which also had a great turnout. And now, November 20th (nearly a week after the Mayhem show), we had the Austrian Blackened Death Metal Blasphemers known as Belphegor bring their Theatrically perverse Totenritual, along with their Canadian tour mates - Brutal Death Metal Pioneers Cryptopsy and Ontario Black Metal Enthusiasts Panzerfaust, to ABQ’s own Launchpad. This Tour in particular was a great one to capture, for every band that played put on a very immersive and compelling performance that left strong impressions of what a good show is like for us at HxM. Below you can view and read the exploits captured in words by yours truly and pictures by our aforementioned HxM editor-in-chief/curley-haired Photopest extraordinaire Bloomer can be found here: https://www.scenesplitter.net/blog/2017/11/26/kvlt-of-photo-wonk-belphegor-cryptopsy-panzerfaust-abq-112017

Panzerfaust

Due to my having just gotten off the clock of my mundane day job, Commander Bloomer and I arrived fashionably late to the show – causing us to regrettably miss about half the set of Black Metal curmudgeons and show openers Panzerfaust. Panzerfaust is a name I’d only heard or seen in passing, so I truly didn’t know what to expect upon catching them mid set. Of course, with a name like Panzerfaust, one can deduce that these Ontario natives play some kind of extreme Metal. Despite said deduction, I wasn’t prepared for what ensued. Walking onto the Launchpad’s darkened floor, the stage’s top 4 house lights were alight in blue, shining down and obscuring the stage in black. Greeting my aural senses was the sound of Black Metal dissonance that left a feeling of ominous foreboding – further adding to my lack of expectations regarding Panzerfaust. Obscured in black, the four members of Panzerfaust appeared mostly as sillouettes. These sillouettes beheld unto me and my fellow concert goers what Black Metal should be: evil sounding and performance driven. Their vocalist, garbed in black robe and standing behind the drummer atop the stage’s drum riser, would remain the focal point for much of their set as he cast a house-light induced shadow upon the stage. Exalting his depraved-frost-bitten orations over the powerful, groove driven, and at times, near Deathspell Omega-like dissonance, his performance was evocative. Complimenting our robed orator’s exaltations was Pf’s drummer, who had a keen ability to keep consistent time and groove that was quite catchy, which made for a nice easy to move to pace amidst their raw guitar and bass tones. Pazerfaust made quite the impression and fans out we at HxM and were the perfect pretext for the ensuing ritual to follow.

Cryptopsy

With Panzerfaust concluding their amazing set, their French-Canadian-Brutal-Death Metal cousins Cryptopsy were up next. To describe myself as excited was an understatement, as it was my first time catching these pioneers who’ve given so much to the Death Metal genre with classics such as their brilliant and oft worshiped None So Vile and incredible debut Blasphemy Made Flesh. Cryptopsy had just finished embarking on the summer long Decimation of the Nation tour playing the aforementioned None So Vile in its entirety. My hopes were high that they’d play much of this touted release on this tour as well, for which they did not disappoint. A brief soundcheck of their instruments did little to forestall my elation. Cryptopsy began their set with their 2015 EP’s, The Book of Suffering, opening track “Detritus,” a song that plays to the strengths of Crytopsy’s classic precision based, technical, and frenetic Brutal Death Metal style. Vocalist Matt MaGachy had a very infectious and charismatic stage presence that worked perfectly in tangent with his visceral guttural attack. His vocals came across clear, thick, and menacing – his charisma goading the crowd into fist pumps and repeated chants of “Ayy” to said fist pumps. Easily one of Underground Death Metal’s best frontmen. Half the setlist comprised of None So Vile, so I will say that Matt MaGachy, having a distinct style from the infamous and original Cryptopsy vocalist Lord Worm, did great justice to those songs with his performance. It’s impossible to review this band without mentioning the talent of skinsman Flo Mounier, whose been the rhythmic back bone to this band since their inception. “Dynamite” is how I would describe him. His style is frenetic while also being precise, being able to explode in crazy fast blast beat passages and transition to groove underneath brutal Death Metal chug sections with tasteful fills. This man can do all that the songs call for on record and recreates live with near perfection. Trying to keep pace and move myself to his percussive insanity was a difficult task, but a fun one none-the-less. An impeccable performance! Bassist Olivier Pinard also had a standout performance with his amazing bass antics. With every chug or slam riff produced by guitarist Christian Donaldson or whether it was connecting with Flo Mounier’s rhythmic onslaught, Pinard’s mastery of his five-stringed bass gave beefy heft and power, elevating his band’s heaviness that would make even the stillest of concert goers convulse in some manner. He was extremely fun to watch through the entirety of their set. Cryptopsy are definitely up there with some of the tightest live bands I’ve seen and I’m thankful my first experience with them shall always be a memorable one. I don’t know what’s in the water in Montreal, Quebec, but what ever it is, its produced Death Metal greats like Cryptopsy. They stole the show for me and I’m very much looking forward to seeing them again soon.

Belphegor

After being decimated by Cryptopsy, it was time to welcome Austrian Blackened Death tyrants Belphegor to the stage. This night would mark two occasions: The first is that...well, it was first for me. A first in witnessing these sickos live. The second mark of this occasion is that this night would end Albuquerque’s eight year Belphegor drought, for the last they’d played in the Ol’ Duke City was in 2009 in support of their then new album Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn.

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pamphletstoinspire · 7 years ago

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THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, - THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE

Chapter 25

PREFACE.

St. Luke, who had published his gospel, wrote also a second volume, which, from the first ages, hath been called the Acts of the Apostles. Not that we can look upon this work, as a history of what was done by all the apostles, who were dispersed in different nations; but we have here a short view of the first establishment of the Christian Church, a small part of St. Peter's preaching and actions, set down in the first twelve chapters, and a more particular account of St. Paul's apostolical labours, in the following chapters, for about thirty years, till the year 63, and the 4th year of Nero, where these acts end.

Chapter 25

Paul appeals to Cæsar. King Agrippa desires to hear him.

1 Now (about the year A.D. 60) when Festus was come into the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Cæsarea.

Notes & Commentary:

Ver. 1. Festus having arrived at his province, goes to Jerusalem to be inaugurated. The Jews took this opportunity of requesting St. Paul might be sent to Jerusalem, that they might accomplish the iniquitous purport of their vow. Such consequence did they attribute to the death of this one man, that they had no greater favour to ask of their new governor at his auspicious entry among them. (Tirinus)

2 And the chief priests, and principal men of the Jews, went to him against Paul: and they besought him,

Ver. 2. No explanation given.

3 Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.

Ver. 3. No explanation given.

4 But Festus answered: That Paul was to be kept in Cæsarea: and that he himself should very shortly depart.

Ver. 4. It would appear, from their first request being peremptorily denied them, how little solicitous their governors were to please them. The successors of Felix and Festus were not better disposed than their predecessors. Their extortions and oppressions were pushed so far, that the Jews attempted at last to deliver themselves by rebellion, which proved their utter ruin and extirpation. Indeed it was in vain to resist, for they already began to feel the truth of our Saviour's prediction, in their subjugation to the Gentiles. Josephus bears ample testimony to the fulfilment of the prophecy. (The Jewish War, lib. ii. chap 16. &c.) (Haydock)

5 Let them, therefore, saith he, among you that are able, going down with me, accuse him, if there be any crime in the man.

Ver. 5. Among you that are able. It may signify, such as are powerful among you, or such as are able by health, and willing. (Witham)

Note:

Ver 5. Qui potentes estis, oi dunatoi en umin.

6 And having remained among them no more than eight or ten days, he went down to Cæsarea, and the next day he sat in the judgment-seat: and commanded Paul to be brought.

Ver. 6. No explanation given.

7 And when he was brought, the Jews that were come down from Jerusalem, stood about him, objecting many and grievous accusations, which they could not prove:

Ver. 7. No explanation given.

8 Paul making answer; That neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cæsar, have I offended in any thing.

Ver. 8. Paul making answer, or his apology, by the Greek. In the Latin, giving an account. In like manner, (ver. 16.) have liberty given to defend himself; in the Greek, to make his apology. In the Latin, till he take a place of defending himself.

Note:

Ver 8. Paulo rationem reddente, apologoumenou. Ver. 16. Locum defendendi accipiat, topon apologias laboi.

9 But Festus being willing to gratify the Jews, answered Paul, and said: Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

Ver. 9. No explanation given.

10 Then Paul said; I stand at Cæsar's tribunal where I ought to be judged: To the Jews I have done no injury, as thou very well knowest.

Ver. 10. St. Paul, seeing Festus only sought a plea to get rid of his cause, by putting it into the hands of the Sanhedrim, appeals to Cæsar. According to the ordinary rules of jurisprudence, appeals are only made after sentence is pronounced; but Roman citizens had a privilege of anticipating the sentence, when the judge did any thing contrary to justice; as Festus evidently did in this case, by wishing to deliver Paul, a Roman citizen, to the tribunal of his declared enemies, the Jews. The apostle knew he was secured by making this appeal: as the Roman law declared provincial governors violators of the public peace, who should either strike, or imprison, or put to death a Roman citizen, that appealed to the emperor. (Calmet) --- Hence Pliny sent some Christians to Rome for this same reason, as he writes himself in his epistles. (Lib. x. ep. 97.) Fuerunt alii similis amentiæ, quos, quia cives Romani erant, annotavi in urbem remittendos.

11 For if I have injured them, or have committed any thing that deserveth death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing of these things whereof they accuse me, no man can deliver me to them. I appeal to Cæsar.

Ver. 11. No explanation given.

12 Then Festus having conferred with the council, answered: Hast thou appealed to Cæsar? To Cæsar thou shalt go.

Ver. 13. No explanation given.

13 And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to Cæsarea, to salute Festus.

Ver. 13. Agrippa. This was son of the king of the same name, who imprisoned St. Peter, and put St. James to death. Bernice was his sister, and one of the most infamous of women. Her character has merited her a place in one of Juvenal's satires, 5th.

14 And as they stayed there many days, Festus told the king of Paul, saying; There is a certain man was left prisoner by Felix,

Ver. 14. No explanation given.

15 Concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests, and the ancients of the Jews, came to me, desiring judgment against him.

Ver. 15. No explanation given.

16 To whom I answered: It is not the custom of the Romans to condemn any man, before that he who is accused have his accusers present, and have liberty of making his defence, to clear himself of the things laid to his charge.

Note:

Ver. 16. Locum defendendi accipiat, topon apologias laboi. (See Verse 8 above).

17 When, therefore, they came hither, without any delay, on the day following, sitting on the judgment-seat, I commanded the man to be brought forth.

Ver. 17. No explanation given.

18 Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no cause wherein I suspected evil:

Ver. 18. No explanation given.

19 But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Ver. 19. Their own superstition. Their particular religion, and manner of worshipping their God. (Witham)

Note:

Ver. 19. De sua superstitione, peri tes idias deisidaimonias.

20 And as I was in doubt of this manner of question, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of those things.

Ver. 20. No explanation given.

21 But Paul appealing to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Cæsar.

Ver. 21. Augustus Nero, who was then the Roman emperor.

22 Then Agrippa said to Festus: I would also hear the man myself. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

Ver. 22. Agrippa has the same curiosity of hearing Paul, as Herod formerly had of seeing Jesus. The apostle's name had, no doubt, become famous enough to reach the ears, and arrest the attention of Agrippa. Curiosity is certainly not the best motive a person can bring with him to the investigation of religious truth: still it may occasionally become productive of good. The king was half persuaded to embrace the Christian faith. A better motive, or more serious attention, may induce some to embrace the truth, which accident may first have discovered to them. (Haydock)

23 And on the next day, when Agrippa, and Bernice were come with great pomp, and had entered into the hall of audience, with the tribunes and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought forth.

Ver. 23. No explanation given.

24 And Festus saith: King Agrippa, and all ye men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews solicited me at Jerusalem, petitioning and crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

Ver. 24. No explanation given.

25 Yet have I found nothing that he hath committed worthy of death. But he himself appealing to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

Ver. 25. No explanation given.

26 Of whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that examination being made, I may have something to write.

Ver. 26. To my lord. This was a title the emperors afterwards took, but which Augustus and Tiberius are said by Pliny, in his epistle to Trajan, and by Tertullian, to have refused, as too assuming and too high, ut nimis sublimem atque gloriosum. This was perhaps done, that none might bear the title at a time when the Lord of lords was to appear on the earth. (Tirinus) --- Whilst we can approve and admire the motives which actuated the emperors in refusing this title, we cannot go the lengths which some modern enthusiasts do, (mostly Americans, Quakers, &c.) who pretend it is blasphemy to call a mortal man a lord, as if that name were incommunicable to any but the Creator of the universe. Whence they derive this article of faith it will not be easy for us to guess; certainly not from Scripture, in which the word Dominus or Lord, applied to man, occurs almost as frequently as King. Certainly not from our Saviour's words, who give both himself and others this title, (Mark xiv. 14. and other places.) nor from St. Paul's doctrine, who also uses this word indiscriminately through his epistles, Galatians iv. 1; Ephesians vi. v.; &c. Hence we are justified in retaining this practice, in opposition to their cavils; and in treating that opinion as superstitious and void of foundation, which makes it a necessary part of religion to use no titles. (Haydock)

27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not to signify the things laid to his charge.

Ver. 27. No explanation given.

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