#spoon talks musicals

[geddy-leesbian]

@raccoons-garbage-can is the realest because I can just send him something insane about how I think medicine in the island lab looks like heartburn medicine and then an even more insane explanation of why I think it makes complete sense for Los Illuminados to stock up on heartburn medicine and he just accepts it 🫶 ily

[freakbullet]

when deltarune first came out I bought the OST. I didn't absorb the titles that much because I was basically just listening to the whole thing on repeat. so I'd completely forgotten the name of a certain track, and when I was reminded of it the other day, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

I've never really had a home that truly felt like home, for all sorts of bad reasons. but I find comfort in fantasy, especially undertale and deltarune.

2015 was one of the worst years of my life. when it started, despite struggles with PTSD and depression and more of that ilk, I was physically healthy. when the year ended, I'd nearly died - I'd been in and out of hospitals for months while doctors tried to figure out exactly what the hell was wrong with me.

the hopelessness of learning I had an illness I'd have to live with for the rest of my life, on top of the despair I already wrestled with - it was too much. I decided the only way out was to end it all.

but then I played undertale. there's nothing I can say that would ever do that experience justice, but if you know, you know. the point is, I'm still here. despite everything, it's still me. and that's not a coincidence.

so when I saw that this one beautiful, nostalgic track that wraps me up like a warm blanket every time I hear it, that reminds me of the friends, the family, I first made in these games all those years ago, is called, "You Can Always Come Home"… man, I lost it.

Toby once said about Toriel: "Your mom loves you." maybe it's silly, but I never had a mom who loved me, until her. so thanks, Toby. it means so much more to me than you could ever know, that I can always come home to my friends and family, and my mom. who loves me.

[waitineedaname]

u seem like a big time ritsu enjoyer so i figured i would recommend you this interaction i saw,, yesterday? i think? on @/shigayokageyama ‘s account !! (if u scroll back a bit you’ll see it)

basically someone sends a ask about the character profiles and music tastes and it spirals into a silly convo about ritsu and what he listens to since he doesn’t listen to music lmao

I DID see that lsdkfjlkdsfj the fact that ritsus canonically doesn't listen to music is possibly my favorite character detail about him. he's so funny.

he is definitely a white noise enjoyer to me. he sits down to study and just googles "white noise for studying" and finds a nine hour video to listen to. someone sees him with his earbuds in and are like "oh what are you listening to" and it's an audiobook about physics.

it's especially funny to me that he's best friends with shou, whose character profile says he listens to any kind of music. I feel like shou is constantly trying to find something, ANYTHING to get ritsu to listen to, and ritsu is just like :/ about all of them

[94erz]

Hate listening to BTS songs right now 'cause they put me in such a good mood but then reality is like we're not gonna get new shit for another year and that sucks so much.

[depengu]

3! For the ask game

The last song i listend to was

Do i have to talk you into it - Spoon

Thaaanks for the ask hopw you like the song and hope that your day is going well!

[ghostickle]

I really be cursed for everyone I meet to just end up using me huh

[chalkeater]

Im thinking about how some people (ive seen) have this mild hint of Snobbiness when it comes to whether or not you save each song individually like The Old Days (I used to do that) . You download the song + edit the artist name + add a song image… but have you considered that. If you have any form of disability with your hands that its time conuming epecially if you’re just starting and have 500+ songs of backlog? Also even if youre able bodied its just so time consuming and i cant squeeze in the time to download and sort 500+ music if i have more important things to do

[steampunk-raven]

my parents are talking about a really triggering thing within earshot but I currently can’t move or talk and neither of them have their phones with them so I can’t text them

[uozlulu]

Listening to David Bowie because all other music is apparently making me anxious but also silence is making me anxious but also for now reason

No clue why. Just all of a sudden my brain is just like directionless anxiety. Can’t reason with it because there is no discernible cause

[krispyweiss]

Quarter Notes: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this edition, musicians for abortion rights, Black Violin, Cass Elliot, Rage Against the Machine

VARIOUS ARTISTS SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS: A various-artists compilation titled Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All will be available for one day - Oct. 7 - on Bandcamp to benefit non-profit organizations supporting abortion rights.

Pearl Jam, David Bryne, Bob Weir, Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell are among the participating musicians.

FORMER BLACK VIOLIN DRUMMER DIES: Beatdown, the first drummer to play with Black Violin, has died, a “devastated” Kev Marcus and Wil B. said.

The drummer’s given name, age and date and cause of death were not available.

“He lived every day to the fullest without apology and we were blessed to know him,” Black Violin said.

CASS ELLIOT GETS A STAR: The late Cass Elliot received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during an Oct. 3 ceremony that included Elliot’s fellow Mama Michelle Phillips and John Sebastian.

NO RAGE IN 2023: Rage Against the Machine canceled all 2023 North American concert dates as singer Zack de la Rocha continues to rehabilitate a torn Achilles tendon.

“It’s not simply a question of being able to perform again, but extends to basic functionality going forward,” de la Rocha said in a statement.

Refunds will be issued.

10/4/22

[imathers]

2022 Loosies: Spoon — “Wild”

Most bands that have albums I love as much as I do a good number of Spoon albums, I’m fairly all in on. It’s not at all normal for me to like 3-4 records by someone and then range from neutral to negative on the rest. To be clear, I don’t think I’ve ever thought a Spoon album was bad, and it’s not as if they’re all radically different from each other (except for maybe the first two versus the rest) so it’s slightly mystifying to me why some I love and some I shrug at. Even weirder, unlike say Elbow or The National where their records tend to need to grow on me, I tend to pretty immediately know when I love a Spoon release (and when I’ve gone to do due diligence, it hasn’t changed my mind on any of the ones I’m lukewarm on).

The progression went something like this (what are tumblrs for if not personal indulgence, eh?): hear “Everything Hits at Once” on MuchMusic, spellbound; buy and love Girls Can Tell. Track down A Series of Sneaks (with the Lafitte songs as bonus tracks), am mildly amazed that this sounds basically like another also great band. Get really excited for Kill the Moonlight... then only like a handful of songs on it (”Small Stakes”, “The Way We Get By”, “Jonathan Fisk”, “Vittorio E.”). Feel slightly aghast at how much friends and colleagues love that one and the boring-to-me Gimme Fiction, decide that I like their early stuff and they’ve fallen off. But then Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is one of my favourite records of the year (only listened to after “The Ghost of You Lingers” turned my head around) and sometimes still my favourite. Transference 100% does not take and having not learned anything I mentally write them off again except the video for “Do You” pulls me back in and They Want My Soul is (in my opinion) their best record. Hot Thoughts has so far done nothing for me. So it feels like I’ve settled into a pattern where for whatever reason I adore every second Spoon record and don’t care about the other half.

If that holds, I should love Lucifer on the Sofa, and presumably the same way I did Ga x 5 and They Want My Soul; from first listen. I heard “Wild” and got excited. It’s not quite “Do You” as far as first impressions go but it touches on some of the same powerful, inchoate emotions that some of my favourite Spoon music brings to the table. But... if I’m going to love that record it’s going to be the first time a Spoon record has successfully grown on me and it hasn’t yet. “Wild” is good, though.

[moonfall666]

I dont wanna sound all "ooh tiktok scary i hate modern technology" but as an autistic person who is surrounded by lots of neurodivergent people, it honestly scares me how many people I see these days get their interests and hyperfixations from algorithms. They're not organically finding interests, its something that was pushed to them by algorithms.

I don't know how to put it into words, but in an age where we can't own the software we buy, do we even own our interests anymore? How do we know our latest hobby isn't something astroturfed by a business manipulating the algorithm?

[alaspoon]

epic the musical my beloved <3333

[mostlikelytokillyouwithaspoon]

Just got reminded my father is homophobic sometimes I forget because of all the other flavors of bigotry coming from this man

Now I’m gonna listen to Ram It Down in loop cause it’s the perfect “angry at people saying gay people are shoving it down their throat” song

[despite-everything]

i wish you could reply to people's letterboxd reviews

[katz-chow]

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ghost distribution system where you’re now sat on the tail gate of his truck, awaiting him to finish changing your tires as you eat the food that he made you. which is terrific by the way.

he has insisted that you sat inside to avoid the bugs and the chilly wind, but you said you didn’t mind. he replied he did and grumbled something you didn’t quite hear and went to make you put on his much bigger jacket.

so you sat there, a bowl of soup in your hands as you watched the sunset, your music blasting from the small speaker in his car, windows rolled down. you watch him change all your tires as the sky got darker.

“do you always do this?” you asked him as you slurp your soup from the bowl. his jacket now taken off from you and merely draped over your shoulders, your body warm from the soup.

he hummed in replied, a silent question for you to repeat yourself. he sets down the last tire on the stack just outside his garage and walked over to you, wiping his hands on a rag. “what do you mean?”

“you know…stalk people’s cars, out cryptic notes on their dash…take them home and i guess now what? kill me?” you ask him, the last part jokingly as you chew on the spoon you’re using.

he gives you a side glance as he huffs a laugh, looking away from you and thus, ignoring your little comment.

“hey! look at me when i talk to you!” you tell him as you hit his shoulder playfully. the sun was starting to set, streaks of orange and yellow and red filled the sky.

he turned to look at you, just like you had commanded him. he’ll always listen, you know. “did you know i actually really like sunsets?”

even with his balaclava on, you can see the crunch of his eyes as he gives you a soft smile. his twinkle, and not just from the sun. you smile at him. “i didn’t. what i also didn’t know was that you can cook.”

“i’m guessing that you’re saying it’s good?”

“very…i don’t think i could live without it.”

ghost nodded slowly and looks back at the sky. “this is the first time someone’s been at my house.”

you raised your eyebrows in shock as you leaned and tilted your head towards him, trying to catch a glimpse of his eyes to search for the truth. “you’re kidding.”

the weight of his pick-up shifted as he leaned back into it, shifting his weight onto the metal. he shakes his head and uses his heel to kick at the pavement underneath. “would you like to come back?”

you giggled and leaned back yourself, your palms keeping you. “dunno…will you cook?”

“always”

“tomorrow?”

“forever? i can change your tires again…”

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