#still does

[aratribow]

Jingyuan has always been made of love,

And love he did from the depths of the ocean to the farthest star in the sky

Love so deep, he drowned farther and farther, inking his blood into the dark waters and the skies

[kiirotoao]

Can we talk about how Karen clocked that Mike was acting different ever since Will disappeared and told him that he could talk to her? And that this was before she knew El even existed??

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The film How Green Was My Valley (1941), set in Wales, is on Film4 today and I was curious enough to go and look up the wikipedia. Here is a film which apparently won FIVE Oscars including Best Picture, beating Citizen Kane. I'm a little bit obsessed with the fact that because of the war they apparently built a set of a Welsh village in the Santa Monica Mountains in California!

I can't help but think that this film is the sort of thing that actual Welsh people might have opinions about, and you may not have time for this ask but I couldn't help but be curious as to whether you have any thoughts you would be willing to share?

I've never seen it! Which is wild, really. Am I right in thinking Richard Burton is in it? If so, it's a rare film about Wales where they actually cast Welsh actors rather than Some Other Goits With Cartoonish Accents.

I have read the book, though. I remember reading it and thinking it was probably a post-Aberfan piece, and then learning it predated Aberfan. I've always found something equal parts unsettling and poignant in that - the danger of the coal tips was haunting us even before it came true. At least in How Green Was My Valley, it didn't kill the children.

[larrysblooming]

35 songs, 3 albums of his own and yet he says the best song of his life (OF HIS LIFE!!!! 😭😭😭) is what makes you beautiful by one direction

[moo9395]

You can fight the weird kid allegations all you want but at the end of the day you’ll always be the kid that relates to Michael in the Bathroom.

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

It was 7.30pm, on 6 July 1972...

“Starman” is David Bowie’s Christmas carol. It offers a promise of deliverance, that the human race has been redeemed by greater powers, with a chorus built for a crowd to sing it... 'Starman' entry on Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Handwritten Starman lyrics

“Starman” seems like a revision of “Space Oddity”—“Space Oddity” had placed a frail human figure against the unfathomable expanse of space and cast him loose to drift into the unknown. It was submission to the void, the human race reaching its limits. In “Starman” the unknown is domesticated: the alien comes to visit us, in our homes, whispering through our radios, speaking softly, promising release. The stoicism of “Planet earth is blue/and there’s nothing I can do” is replaced by “he’s told us not to blow it/’cos he knows it’s all worthwhile.” ... “Starman” is also a pop song about pop music…it’s how pop music can instantly create secret societies, break up the tedium of your life, liberate you from your parents. Starman' entry on Pushing Ahead of the Dame

The essential moment comes when Bowie starts to sing the first chorus and Ronson tentatively approaches the mike. Bowie notices him and sweeps his arm over Ronson’s shoulder, pulls him to the mike. It’s a sweet moment of inclusion, the alien embracing the rocker, and, by proxy, all of the nation’s misfits. “Starman” left community in its wake; its promise came true. Starman' entry on Pushing Ahead of the Dame

"I immediately put on some of my older sister’s make-up. I loved how odd it made me look, and the fact that it upset people. You put on eyeliner and people started screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.” -Robert Smith, The Cure

”I was hooked. The Top Of The Pops performance changed lives. In 1972, I’d get girls on the bus saying to me, ‘Eh la, have you got lippy on?’ Until he turned up it was a nightmare. All my other mates at school would say, ‘Did you see that bloke on Top Of The Pops?’ He’s a right faggot, him!’ And I remember thinking, ‘You pillocks’, as they’d all be buying their Elton John albums, and Yessongs and all that crap. It made me feel cooler.” -Ian McCulloch, Echo and the Bunnymen

"The way Bowie pointed that finger, smilingly draped an arm around Mick Ronson, and looked beyond the camera to engage the audience sitting at home, stickily hemmed in by disapproving members of their immediate family, seemed of a piece with the new Ziggy Stardust persona we’d been reading about. It felt like an arrival long delayed." David Hepworth, The Guardian

“I just couldn’t believe how striking he was. That ambiguous sexuality was so bold and futuristic that it made the traditional male/female role-play thing seem so out-dated. Bowie was the catalyst who’d brought a lot of us, the so-called Bromley Contingent, together. And out of that really small group of people a lot happened.” Siouxsie Sioux, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Starman page from Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns and Moonage Daydreams by Michael Allred

"I remember the first time Bowie appeared on TV ... Suddenly, here comes a guy dressed as a gay alien from outer space, singing gay alien songs from outer space .... I remember TOTP was family viewing, and I remember watching it with my Mum and Dad. "Oh, shouldn’t be allowed". And there was one bit in the chorus when Bowie puts his arm round Ronson’s neck and they sing together? My Dad was like "Poofter" ... My mother’s intense disapproval made me think ‘Well, there must be something GREAT going on here"...

(maybe people who celebrate song's birthdays are cringe but fuck that post and happy birthday to the broadcast of this song)

[jihef03]

When this came in the movie during our first movie I can still recall my mom stifling a laugh. Like she did worded like it but it clearly meant "yeah you'd like a bedroom like that wouldn't you?"

[thunder-point]

i keep listening to jungkook's "still with you" while writing for omega phum. it's just such a suited vibe

[cantstayawaycani]

Pour one out for the well coifed faux hawk Tenoch rocked during the filming of and press for Wakanda Forever.

[itspileofgoodthings]

that Chesterton quote about how if people say endlessly contradicting things about something or someone you can be sure it’s great.

[sh1-n0bu]

NOBU WATCH CASTELVANIA AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

OKAY OKAY U DONT WHAVE TO SHOUT AT ME

[fastsalad]

I keep having dreams about this guy i knew in high school confessing his love for me. what does this mean. this is the third time this summer i am not making this up. i haven't seen him in over a year.

[asterias-corner]

”ugh, goth music is so sad and depressing! Why would ANYONE enjoy it?”

also goth music:

[michsmeesh]

toblerone fungus or smthn idk

[erotomanicpixiedreamgirl]

the bruce springsteen/leonard cohen/alex turner/clay frankel phenotype really had a choke hold on me for awhile and lowkey still does

[tamlindudley]

சின்னஞ்சிறு நிலவே என்னை விட்டு

ஏனடி நீங்கினையோ

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