#they feel so entitled when they're in the pool thinking everyone else is gonna go around them since they're the only men in the pool

[aro-aizawa]

i have a new rival: old men at a mostly empty pool

[junkshop-disco]

for the song meme: 3, 13, 23

3: A song that reminds you of summertime

I used to spend the summer working at festivals, supervising stage builds or setting up artist villages, which means I was there early enough to have a massive PA to play with. If anyone let me near the aux for a main stage, this is what I'd always blast, Idris Muhammad Could Heaven Ever Be Like This . It's just a huge slab of really vibey old school that just sounds magnificent in the sunshine (or, tbh, pretty much anywhere).

13: One of your favorite 80’s songs

There was so much cool music in the 80s, which is why I'm picking Wired for Sound by Cliff Richard. Look. I know. I know it's Cliff Richard. I know you're thinking seriously? But this is a bop. And more importantly, it's a bop about music equipment. It starts with the line 'I like small speakers, I like tall speakers, if there's music, they're wired for sound. Walking around with a head full of music, cassette in my pocket and I'm gonna use it.' Like. Come on. That is objectively fantastic.

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

When I'm Going Through Something, I crave house. I think a lot of people see house as shallow, an ephemeral background music to pool parties on TV, with little more to offer than soundtracking conventionally attractive people having a nice, entitled time in the sunshine at some mansion. But it's so much more than that. House is built on being overtly anti-racist and queer. House is about protest and most importantly for me, it is deeply, deeply rooted in the revolutionary power of hope and community as salvation. So I think what everyone should listen to is house music.

Some of my fave uplifting house tunes: Mark Knight, Beverley Knight and the London Community Gospel Choir - Everything's Going To Be All Right, Raise Up - Kindness, Love. Hope. Happiness - Luke Solomon, Amy Douglas, Queen Rose, I'm Not Defeated - Fiorious Cassius mix, Hope Is The Last Thing To Die - David Holmes (technically perhaps not house but wouldn't exist without house, so), I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits - Moodyman. I am so grateful for the existence of house music, and these two songs just perfectly sum up why it's what I reach for when I need something to just give me hope for and in humanity: Divine - Jamie Anotelli and Can You Feel It - Larry Heard. You need house. Everybody needs house. The world would be a better place if everybody loved house music.

Thanks for the ask!

Questions here if anyone else wants to play.