#post moves

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Silica Gel

Silica Gel emerged from the central Alabama underground, blending Renaissance-era texts, modern instrumentation, and unbridled creativity.  The intertwining vocal melodies from Laura Thomas and Lauren Jones reimagine folk music as a time-dissolving means of expression.  This temporal slippage is enhanced by strings, percussion, and cracked electronics.  In his review of Swan Pond, Bryon Hayes said that the album “deftly captures Silica Gel’s odd but endearing incantations. Its heady brew is rife with ghostly emanations, delightful song craft, cracked electronics and medieval melodies.”

The band’s members have recently scattered across the United States, so their activity is winding down, but Dusted managed to get member Jasper Lee (who also runs Alabama’s Sweet Wreath label) to list a few songs that he felt were important to the entire band.    

He elaborates: “This list of songs relates to Silica Gel's world in one way or another. Some are artists we've played favorite shows with, like White Gourd, Junior Mint Prince, Johnny Coley, and Post Moves. There's also music we've been particularly influenced by and love connecting with others on. Songs for a Silica Gel Mixtape!”  

Eyes of the Amaryllis — Every Year

When Silica Gel was on tour in Philadelphia, Jim Strong gave me this LP of a group he was in. When I got back home to Alabama and listened, it was totally mesmerizing. I can't even really describe it...but it's very emotional and some of the most ineffable music I've ever heard. There were days in the winter when I just listened to it over and over, not turning the record player off....just moving the needle back to the beginning again and again. I like that you can't hear the words. They're there....but subliminal and suggestive rather than being a focal point.

Post Moves — Always for Pleasure

Sam's performances on the pedal steel are transcendent. I'm in awe of the range of sounds and atmospheres he creates.... plus the gamelan-like bells and scrap metal percussion he plays along with the strings. His compositions have a great openness to them, I like hearing how they continually shift and morph. This piece makes me think of a European road movie; opening up in a grey eerie fog in 1978. We've played a few shows together and really bonded through common creative interests. There's a string of Post Moves releases from the past few years that have all developed his sound in really compelling ways. One of the most interesting pedal steel players around!

Pearls Before Swine — Drop Out!

I got Covid while visiting the Green Plum Ensemble in Philly and stayed in a friend's apartment alone for three days. I listened to this record repeatedly. I think it was the best soundtrack for woozily stumbling around, nodding off and convalescing. The music is comforting and exciting at the same time. The voice is serene but can also bite, like in "Uncle John." I learned to play that song and it's really empowering. I think Silica Gel likes to wander in similar psych-folk territories as this music.

Johnny Coley — They're Dreaming Me

It's amazing that this even happened. It was totally off the cuff.... but it's like Johnny's theme song. Not many people know about Johnny now, but I think they will...more and more. I'm biased because I know him and I played on this, but I'm viewing it here from the perspective of a listener. I just like hearing it, and I also wanted to include it because there's a lot of crossover between this Johnny album and Silica Gel. We were working on both records at the same time in the same place, at Sweet Wreath, and we didn't have MUCH time at all. "My Little Fox Ears" on our album Swan Pond is based on one of Johnny's poems. I think this may be the first time anyone has turned his writing into a separate piece of music. But hearing Johnny's voice is the best way to encounter his poetry....and what better track than the mystery of "They're Dreaming Me."

Roxy Gordon — An Open Letter to Illegal Aliens

Another poet with a potent vernacular voice that must be reckoned with. Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician Roxy Gordon is one of a kind. His message speaks to me. "Ask the water. Ask the air what grief your green dollars have wrought. Ask the cut, bleeding, poisoned earth." I think people need to hear the wisdom of people like Roxy. Someone telling it like it is, straight and true. You can hear the love in his voice, and the anger at what colonialism is still doing to us and the land today. His words are personal yet panoramic in scope.

Junior Mint Prince — Strange Ballad

One of the best performances I've ever seen. When they play, a folksy song like this one would just float everybody along on a blissed-out cotton candy cloud then turn into a noise jam of computer glitches and weird vocal melisma, and like heavy breathing and hiccupping, and two clowns would come tip-toeing out grimacing and tossing a crystal ball around, and it would progress into a free jazz saxophone duel where they all left the building wailing.

Slapp Happy — Blue Flower

Jangly as hell, every instrument in this song is jangly. Like a synesthesia of the lyric in it, "the sun was sparkling on the shaft of your knife." Sun sparkles just being zapped into your brain through sound waves. Amazing lyrics, and Dagmar's voice is like a high brittle whine that'll fuck you up, she knows what's going on.... she’s the cool one, not whoever she's singing about.

White Gourd — Magician le Diable

Every show, she BECOMES one of the major arcana of the Tarot. I saw her become Justice at a small club in Portland, Maine. She scraped huge swords together, and gave everyone bells to ring. The whole place vibrated with the shimmer of the bells. She sang and played sax and drums in cycles, going through stages of a musical ritual that was totally effective in manifesting the feeling that Justice would be Wrought.

Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

Yes! It seems that there is still very fertile sonic territory in the valley between POP and COLLAGE. Or maybe it's more Voice, Melody and Memory? Singing set adrift in an amusement park of field recordings, sound effects, and loops. When I first learned what Hauntology was, it was an uncanny affirmation of what I'd always felt but couldn't quite articulate. Something about recording being like the cultural production of ghosts. This is a good record to listen to and think about while reading Mark Fisher!

Steeleye Span — Dark Eyed Sailor

I like to drive to this song. That beat! So steady, and warm...it seems like it could go on forever. Silica Gel is really influenced by all the UK folk-rock and folk revival stuff from the 1960s and 1970s. We like it all. But Steeleye Span is a favorite. How did I not know about this growing up? I got into it a lot later, but it hit powerfully, and I was hooked. Laura and Lauren in Silica Gel seem born to sing harmonies like these...it's in the blood. So, we try to bring the Steeleye influence in however we can. If you don't know this music, do yourself a favor and go down a rabbit hole with it, maybe spend a whole fall or winter with it. You won't regret it!

[slyandthefamilybook]

tumblr glitched out somehow but idc because this is way better than the original poll

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[samsrowena]

while i do love that november 5th is like a reunion for everyone who spent time in the destiel trenches, i do think it's important to acknowledge and appreciate those of us that are mentally ill enough to still be blogging about supernatural every day for the past four years

[wwillywonka]

hey so what the actual fuck

edit: that's the link to the video btw^^

[risariba]

Falin's Moving Castle

[wrenderart]

I made this a couple of months ago but. hack your 3ds. do it right now.

[nobody-knose--archive]

that one friend who’s always cold: i’m cold

that one friend who can see ghosts: which is weird because you’re not even being haunted right now or anything

[marciaillust]

almost blown out bsky / twt / ig

[mini-minish]

have you heard of that new hot spot in ba sing se 🍵

[seawaveleo]

lovin the dichotomy here

anyway tumblr número 1 campeão do mundo staff stop changing the mobile layout and get rid of tumblr live

[hexcoreviktor]

We don't need Heaven, we don't need Hell, they're toxic. We need to get away from them, just be an us. You and me, what do you say?

GOOD OMENS - 2.06 Every Day

[fanaticalthings]

While I do find it funny that henchmen in Gotham probably warn each other about the Red Hood because he's a bat who will actually kill you. I think it would be better if Jason was actually seen as some sort of savior or idol to like 90% of the goons scattered around Gotham. Doesn't matter who they work for, they all know Jason, former crime-lord that took over majority of Gotham's underground in one night.

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Jason, years after the events of UTRH, now fighting crime alongside the batfam, except every goon he runs into immediately recognizes him, stops fighting, and starts begging.

the first time it happens, Jason assumes they're begging for their lives only to hear them begging for him to return to the crime lord business so they can work for him and not Gotham's current money-stingy, abusive rogues (Black Mask lol)

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Jason showing up to patrol as backup for Dick in an overrun warehouse full of Two-Face's henchmen and as Jason's about to interfere, one of the men stops dead in their tracks and stares really hard at Jason until:

Goon: Oh my God, boss, is that you?

Jason, pulling out his guns, about to shoot:

Goon: Mr. Hood, sir???

Jason, halfway about to pull the trigger: Wait a min–Jeremy? Oh wow, it's been ages! How's the wife?

Goon (Jeremy): Oh my God it IS you, holy shit where have you BEEN? Me and the guys miss you, man!

Dick, with a knife at his throat: What is happening right now

Jason: Ahh, well, crime-lording just wasn't fitting in on the daily schedule. Tryna turn over a new leaf and all that

Goon (Jeremy): Aw, that's disappointing. We really liked working for you, right guys?

[Chorus of enthusiastic "YEAHS" from the rest of the henchmen (even the one holding Dick at knifepoint)]

Goon (Jeremy): Well, anyways, I can't beat you up knowing you're my old boss! You gave us the best health benefits! We'll just let you take the evidence and leave.

Jason: Aw, thanks guys :)

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And that's why 95% percent of Jason's missions in Gotham end in success. Not because he's willing to kill people or because rogues are terrified of him, but because 90% of the rogues' henchmen once worked for Jason and fuckin love him lol.

[frownyalfred]

Thomas Wayne, wringing his hands: “You know, I’m from Gotham — born and raised, Alfred. But Martha — she’s from Gotham. Do you know what I mean?”

Alfred Pennyworth, freshly hired with 0% of an idea what that actually means: “Certainly, sir.”

[wanologic]

yo danny fenton he was just 19

[birdmans]

ALICENT + AEGON, HELAENA, AND AEMOND