#successful live performances

[whetstonefires]

more substantive thing about Glass Onion and then i think this is all my thoughts: i really liked something i feel was clearly shown in the flashbacks but not outright stated, which was that andi knew damn well miles bron was a dumb huckster.

that's what she wanted him for. she needed that ability to throw himself into his latest shill with total commitment, because of his need to believe in his own hype. the 'reality distortion' of his hard sell.

she knew that to get what she wanted out of life, she needed to harness that confidence of a mediocre white man we all talk about.

that it would open doors that would stay unmoved in the face of all her brilliance, and polish, and perfected rich bitch voice.

there's a lot of these guys out there, and she picked a dumb one because she planned for him to be the front man to her mastermind. (apologies to paul mccartney lol i don't mean to impugn your intelligence.) a smarter man would have had his own plans, would be harder to use as a mouthpiece for her better ones. she would have needed to find an actual partner and not a tool, and she didn't trust like that.

duke wasn't actually wrong to say they were all playing the same shitty game and andi lost. i mean, he was morally wrong but he wasn't incorrect.

like blanc says, she thought that because she was better than bron, because she was the genius and he was the cheap con artist, he wasn't dangerous. and in the end that was where it all fell apart.

[sainz100]

Carlos Sainz | F1 London Live in 2017 | x x x x x

[sundead]

Was so caught up in the despair of Izzy Hands Death that I never stopped to consider Izzy Hands Came Back Wrong potential. No grave can hold that body down, he’s crawling home to her. Izzy’s Revenge indeed.

[orangewsunglasses]

been thinking abt how fyodor technically performed a successful lobotomy on ivan

[speakofcompersion]

Ballad King Taemin 😌💕 [x]

[radiation]

I watched the dear evan hanson movie with my friend the other day as a joke, and what the fuck? I know it’s the easiest target in the world but still. I kind of want to actually watch the real musical now to see the difference but I’m scared I would enjoy it just by virtue of the pleasant surprise of it being ever so marginally better than the movie

[mariocki]

Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (BBC, 1980)

"Complacent with your mission, Dominick? Amusing, the history of transport. We've made a modicum of progress: trips are regulated to microseconds, punctuality taken for granted."

"Yes."

"Why then were you two minutes late on your double return? Machine fault?"

"No. I'm sorry."

"I accept apology. Reason?"

"It was raining. Rain slows everything. I saw an old woman knocked down and I was checking how long before help reached her. The medi-car was blocked in progress, I think she died."

"So?"

"I thought it might be interesting."

"People are not your conspectus, Dominick. If you wish to study people, watch old films."

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Even since Michael's heavenly ascend, not just the music industry but, quite frankly, the entertainment industry as a whole has been left with a massive void that I don't believe will be fulfilled in the near future or ever again. That man had a star power equivalent to three Galactuses at their most powerful. You will never witness someone like that ever again, not in this lifetime nor the next one. He was and still is one of a kind.

[quotelr]

Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.

Ken Poirot

[the-healing-mindset]

Just do what you know to do

At some point in your life, you may have encountered unstable people who made you insecure in your ability to live life comfortably and at ease. At every decision and at every challenge, you began to question yourself whereas in the past, you would do what you needed to do with ease and freedom.

This new awkwardness that you feel when it comes to showing up in familiar situations frustrates you. The way you freeze and and hesitate when doing something you have done numerous times before. The way you stumble over your words when it comes to talking to others in a way you have done so many times before. I know how hard it is.

This has happened because you are allowing what others have done to you to live on inside you. The way they treated you differently than they did the others. The way they talked down to you. The way they singled you out just for being yourself. That stuff happened in passing moments and seemed insignificant, but just a single occurrence of that type of thing can be traumatizing. Now, imagine the effects if that type of stuff happens continuously. Yes, it drives itself deep into your psyche.

It's traumatizing.

To overcome this, you must stop looking at yourself through their lenses. What happened, happened. There is no changing that. But you cannot allow their words and their actions to continue defining your livelihood. You can't get inside their head, so you won't be able to figure out why they did what they did, but you do know how it is affecting you. You notice where you hesitate. You notice where you freeze. Be conscious of those things as you make a different choice.

Just do what you know to do. On that same note, just show up as you do. Rarely are people paying attention to you as much as you think they are. People aren't judging you. People aren't criticizing you at every move you make. You had those experiences back then which means that it has become ingrained in your mind that you have to watch yourself to keep others happy with you, which is extremely stressful and anxiety inducing. This is something that you don't have to do, however.

Your humanness is just fine. The way you naturally respond to things is just fine. You don't have to change that to make others feel comfortable with you. You don't have to hold yourself down so that others are happy with you. None of that matters. While you are holding yourself in restriction, others are freely living their lives and being happy. You deserve that too. You know how to live your life. You know how to do what you need to do. You just have to trust yourself enough to do it. Don't think about what they think.

[xoalsox]

i love you forever my shinee

[die-tenebris]

oh yeah, life update- because you all need those and expect it from me- started watching 'the fall of the house of usher' and I'm just kinda wondering like, is subtlety dead?

[summerhighlandfalls]

YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY FROM THE SOUND OF THE WOMAN THAT LOVES YOU

[virginbutstillahoe]

i have literally never seen a performance like that in my life. zero hyperbole matthew macfadyen should be absolutely proud of his accomplishment tonight. unbelievable and truly impeccable, i remain in awe.

[waugh-bao]

I can’t say Live By The Sword is going on my favorites list but it was sure nice to hear the snap of that snare starting off. So crisp. I was smiling while listening to it and imagining Charlie play it, but sad at the same time.

Maybe I’m being over dramatic, but I honestly never want to listen to this album again. It makes me viscerally angry that they threw away more than a decade of Charlie’s work, the last of everything he produced as a musician, to put out this piece of soulless, corporate rock trash.

For my money, “Live By The Sword” has one redeeming attribute, and that’s that they only kind of mutilated his drum sound on it (there’s still a bit of cymbal splash and snare), rather than completely destroyed it. As happened on the aptly named “Mess It Up.”

All I got from this experience is that this band has outlived its reason for existence as a creative endeavor.