#the glide! the musicality!

[a-birdhouse-in-your-soul]

my hot take is that alysa has the best short program of the women this season…standing ovation given multiple times by me in my bedroom

[arealtrashact]

Ignore my previous post. My favorite character isn't Homelander anymore - it's this guy.

I'm so serious.

I've rewatched this scene about a dozen times now simply because I get a kick out of seeing 'Homelander' moving so freely / fluidly. Don't get me wrong, I love how composed the real Homelander is (almost) all the time. Hands behind his back, sometimes on his hips if he's feeling really sassy. . .

But I tend to draw him in some very exaggerated poses ( flaunting some pretty out-there color palettes ) so getting to see an iteration of him moving so animatedly while wearing this delighted me on what can only be described as a primal level.

[adamoose-art]

One Must Imagine Sysiphus Happy <3

Kind of a continuation of this post, I just like drawing the blorbo rehabilitating into life. Does he like music canonically? Dunno. BUT they do like acting, so... Close enough?

(Shirt and belt were lent to them by Isa, the leggings are from Mira)

[aeolianblues]

I’m going to try and turn Arctic Monkeys fans onto a newer band called Picture Parlour, because I find they remind me of some of the more swaggering sides of Arctic Monkeys, and their singer has something in her voice that reminds me of Alex singing. Check this out!

For your libraries:

I’ve got to know, AM fans: am I right? Do you get that AM vibe from them?

(Picture Partly are a new band from London, Ronnie is their third ever single.)

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 3

Through the Sea of Time from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky

vs.

Fleet Glide Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy 2

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Through the Sea of Time:

Aaaaaaaah, the feelings! This song gives a feeling of enthusiasm, discovery, and is really sad also. This is the game that brought to tears a generation of pokéfans.

[sunskate]

my touchstone and favorite palate cleanser when i'm steamed or sad about ice dance

[gemini-queen42]

Vocal pick-up day is NOT the day to have my voice randomly DIE on me when I gotta hit notes 😭 like I've hit them b4!!! Girl what is your problem!!!

Anyways it somehow took me This long to think "wait a minute.. maybe the reason my voice cracks at 'good day' EVERY SINGLE TIME is because I am starting it too high for something with no vocal pregame... Maybe if I sit it at the Just Slightly Lower and More Comfortable tone that Won't Happen."

[phrworld]

019 Music City Rodeo - Tennessee Highway Patrol by rivarix Via Flickr: On the way to the next cone pattern. (2)

[mywifeleftme]

92: Aquariana // Aquariana

Aquariana Aquariana 2013, Drag City (Website)

The Source Family were one of the more successful new religions (read: cults) operating in Southern California during the early 1970s. Founded by Father Yod (pronounced “Yoad”; né Jim Baker), a towering, bearded figure with a few alleged murders (via karate chop!) and bank robberies under his robes, the Source Family operated a popular health food restaurant in L.A. and cut dozens of brainstewing psych rock records that have become holy grails to men who physically resemble late period Jerry Garcia. Yod assigned one of his 13 wives (Isis Aquarian, née Charlene Peters) to document the cult’s journey over the years, resulting in an incredible trove of video recordings, some of which were used to assemble 2012’s The Source Family documentary. The footage, much of it eerie and gauzily beautiful, gives us a good idea of what day-to-day life in the Family was like, from its origins to Yod’s corporeal demise in Hawaii following a hang-gliding accident (!).

The Source Family were as close to a prototypical cult of the era as you can get: white robes, buffet approach to Eastern and Western spiritual concepts, illiberal attitudes toward “personal possessions,” semi-involuntary polygamy, institutionalized drug use, etc. If you’ve ever listened to recordings of the sermons of Jim Jones or David Berg, Baker’s hep gibberish will sound strikingly familiar, and indeed, the Source Family followed the standard trajectory—from monogamy to a form of free love that mostly allowed the leader to fuck all the hot girls; from soft notions about kindness and peace to dark mutterings about an imminent apocalypse; from vegetarianism to moral loopholes that sanctioned the killing of dangerous outsiders. The Source Family never went the way of the Peoples Temple because, when faced with a mounting crisis (the cult’s disastrous move to Hawaii), Baker decided to disclaim his godhood instead of doubling down on it. No one knows why he eventually told his followers he was only a man, but I have a hunch: he wasn’t a sawed-off little gnome, and he wasn’t crazy. Unlike his murderous peers, Baker didn’t have much to overcompensate for; he was a huge, built guy who didn’t need a cult to get laid, impose his will, or feel important (though he got off on all of the above). In the end, no one died, and so it feels a little less vulturine to nibble at this particular cult’s artistic output than it does, say, the Manson Family’s.

On that note, let’s turn to the music. Record nerds are always on the lookout for cult music because it often goes extremely hard, be it Manson’s acoustic freak folk, Scientology space jazz, or “Veteran of the Psychic Wars.” The albums the Source Family are known for (released under a variety of names like Ya Ho Wha 13 and Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76) are out-there freeform acid jams in which the cult’s more experienced musicians try to work around frontman Yod’s untrained drumming and bellowing—a member of the No-Neck Blues Band pops up on the 2012 documentary to gush about their records, and you can see why acts like NNCK and Jackie O Motherfucker would lose it for this stuff.

The album we’re looking at today, by contrast, is a solo piano recording from the mid-‘70s by Aquariana, another of Yod’s wives, that went unissued till 2013. Aquariana had a Queen Guinevere-type look, and the liners note that she would frequently spin her own long golden hair into thread to sew and embroider with. A capable pianist with a multi-octave voice, Aquariana’s music could broadly be called folky, but it feels a little more theatrical than that, influenced by show tunes and AM soft rock. Her songs are mostly about love (-ing Father Yod), bearing children (of Father Yod), and the magnificence of Father Yod. It’s midway between devotional music and the type of stuff a medieval bard would be retained to write in praise of an egotistical baron. You can practically see Baker being fed grapes in the producer’s chair while she plays. Though it’s not as overtly weird as Ya Ho Wha 13, there’s still a lot of stuff on Aquariana that no sane producer would’ve allowed, like the way she tunelessly holds and holds and holds her notes on “Oh My Love” and “One Love” until you start to think your record is skipping. That strangeness is why it exerts the particular appeal it does, and it does have a particular downbeat intensity that holds my interest, despite its rudimentary songcraft.

Chicago’s Drag City label was behind the documentary and mid-2010s series of Source Family music reissues. Unlike reissues of, say, Manson-adjacent music, the label was able to work with surviving Family members like Isis Aquarian. This meant of course that they couldn’t dress up the reissues too salaciously (see LIE: The Love & Terror Cult), but Baker’s group already had such a strongly creepy aesthetic that there wasn’t much need to. A designer would be hard-pressed to come up with a more uncanny cover than Aquariana got: the singer at the piano in her ruffled gown with an unreadable expression, the head and shoulders of her husband-father visible behind the instrument, the portrait framed in ornate white fabric. It feels like the work of an outsider trying to underline the cult’s depravity in red pen—yet the composition and cover design were by Yod himself. Make of that what you will.

92/365

[1introvertedsage]

Hold on to the thread the currents will shift glide me towards you know something's left and we're all allowed to dream of the next oh the next time we touch

[godzexperiment]

It was one of the spaces he actually occupied frequently; an complicated set of walls that he just stripped down to its bare bones emotionally most days. Loud music blaring, echoing around while he twirled around with his eyes closed. Ever so light hopping on, off the pews and enjoying himself. And song after song of it- until he was spinning ever so fast, with perfect balance on the back edge of the pew bench. Until the last song was hitting its final chords. With which he ran along its length- using one foot to push himself off into the air. That moment before gravity was able to grip tight. While he just sort of drifted; even with his wings not present. Before his boots impacted soundlessly, an little last spin on the tip of them for the final seconds of instrumental. Just standing there for an moment with his eyes closed. Then the little run, slight gliding despite the heavy traction of his boots with an little help of his wings to fill the dead air with some more music.

[orbmanson7]

mmmm

okay so, new tbhk episode...

Not perfect, but not terrible either! I was delighted to see how well-paced ep 5 turned out to be, actually

They padded out mokke of the dead really well, with something interesting that didn't completely detract from the original concept, and the color choice was unique and kind of fun, so they definitely get kudos for that

And they didn't miss any of the really important pieces of the mitsuba chapter, either, which is what I was worried about, and then them adding teru fucking shoving his damn sword into mitsuba's shoulder, wasn't expecting that but okay! works for me!

They did a really good job pacing this episode, something they've been clearly struggling with in the first four episodes of the season, and honestly, that was going to be a big indicator of how they'd actually handle the picture perfect arc starting next week

This episode has definitely given me some renewed hope that they're going to take this at a good pace and do a good job animating this next arc 🤞

[blackvahana]

Lev is also bored and exhausted and wants some fun pretend roleplay time so alas I must conform

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

Duality of Peachy is thinking the Froggy Fashion outfit is cute and wanting it but simultaneously recognizing that the Electrician outfit is one of if not THE worst ability outfit to go for alts for because it is so insanely hyper specific that after the finite set of puzzles are done you will pretty much never see it again, and adding more electrician puzzles during a limited time event does NOT solve that problem

[fishybehavior]

all i want in a game is the wii fit resort island flyover minigame but as its own game i can play without the wii

I have literally thought about learning to code so i can make a game like this, i have ideas and characters and mechanics in mind

i want a fun flying game that isnt a flying sim. sims look like fun but are complicated. And flying doesnt have to be super complicated to be fun