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A wAffle on influences

as a somewhat voracious listener of music no one gives a shit about, I thought i’d make this post to express my love for a few albums that have influenced me. Also, im making an album right now! (isn’t that exciting?) so yheah, influences are on my mind a lot. And now.... there’s a thing u can click on to read my thoughts VOLUNTARILY - i.e not to be subject to my fanboy boner that i slap everyone in the face with when i’m drunk (if u are one of these ppl i have slapped, sorry).

in no particular order (they’re numbered for the aesthetic lol) my biggest influences are these albums and their respective artists:

btw, If u click the titles you’ll be directed to the album on spotify

7.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

I feel like this album should be played in arenas during that part where everyone’s waiting for the headliner to come on stage.

But then again, these tracks aren’t quite long enough for that.

No but guys, post-rock is literally life. You know how in life all the feelings and climaxes and weirdness sorta morphs into this beautiful concept called journey? well post-rock reflects that sooooo well. And part of GY!BE’s journey was their discovery that playing guitar with screwdrivers can literally alter people’s states.

check it out

6.

Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind

David Tibet’s level of genius is shit scary. Why am I not being taught Current at uni?!?!??! well its bc sometimes even in careers spanning 30+ years underratedness is still a thing, n that’s okay! the art is still mindblowingly great. 

I kinda struggle to sum up Current’s sound so I’m gonna quote Myke C-Town and say that its twisted, fucked up Neofolk; replete with existential themes and that sexy, insane sort of genius that can only be expected from someone who performs barefoot. 

Also Michael Cashmore has a really iconic knack for atmosphere. 

5.

Lantlos - Melting Sun 

This album’s artwork reflects the music so damn perfectly holy shit. 

Listening to Melting Sun you will find exactly this many shades of color in all their intense wonder. Its basically a sonic orgasm; and it hits you just like anal sex - or at least like anal sex when you get everything right.

check it out, and get ready to shit, cum and maybe cry.

4.

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express

I can’t sleep without 70′s electronica. This de novo approach to music echoes the vision of Beethoven while facilitating hypnagogic hallucinations like fucking opiates. 

Check it out, and behold the greatest stars in the looking glass.

3.

Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet 

Ohhhh what I would give to see Rozz live just once.

The only thing more iconic than the man’s style and charisma was his Bowie-type eclecticism that he could PRODUCE on the SPOT upon being handed a mic. Ugggh this album is just pure warped talent that features SO many sick underground faces. They really created their own domain with this one, and Catastrophe to this day continues to eclipse whatever else steps inside. 

Check it out, because I think this album is like, perfect

“But the perfect album doesn’t ex---

2.

Echo And The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 

c-c-c-cucumber,

c-c-c-cabbage,

c-c-c-cauliflower,

OCEAN FUCKING RAIN

This is the album that reallllly gave me that drive to figure out how to sing. Its just so fun man. The riffs and the melodies and the really straightforward but powerful song structures all belong to this 80s world of like, expression and hairspray that I spend way too much time in.

But it just gets funner with each listen, and that is why it slaps.

1.

The Cure - Bloodflowers

Also listen to Pornography and Disintegration for a holistic demonstration of Robert Smith’s darker side (for which I am perpetually Ithyphallic). 

What makes this album so special is the way that it carries a singer-songwriter feel throughout its duration while still retaining this imaginary, child-like vision that reveals a world while satisfying a very human need (I been reading a lot of Henry James lately).

But even more inspiring is the rawness of Bloodflowers, because that’s what adds a humanness to it. The biggest statement I feel this guys have made is that its okay to be flamboyant, to be expressive, and sometimes even to be miserable. 

And that’s sort of the whole point of why I’m doing this project. The mere existence of feelings in themselves justifies their expression - and so I’m writing an album to remind everyone (including myself) that they valid and precious as fuckn shit.

Thank you,

-B.

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When I was 14 years old, my grandma accused me of stealing her jewelry; and instead of accusing the stranger in the house, her maid, she accused me. She threw away my clothes, broke my phone, almost ripped my bag because she threw it at a wall, broke the lamp dad gave me and told me he was dead - she not only yelled at me , she threatened to kick me out. I was only 14.

She never apologized for that, despite being on good terms with her now, I still think about that time- every now and then. I’m 22 years old now, on antidepressants and antianxiety, constantly paranoid around other people’s houses, thinking oh no, if something goes wrong, they’ll blame me.

Last night grandma yelled at Francine, my sister, and told her, flat out “it’s your fault your mom is like this!!” Just because my sister asked my mom for change (which was mine) to buy juice.

Grandma went BERSERK.

And my mind went. Blank. Back to the time she did the very same thing to me. Francine is only 12. We have a neurotic mom. You can’t be angry at a younger person like my 12 year old sister for acting the way she does, because we- she didn’t have a conventional childhood growing up. We grew up piss poor with a vegetable mom and a dad always busy with work. That’s no one’s fault. You can’t blame a child for being birthed by her mother, and you can’t tell a child she she has no right to exist if it weren’t for you.

A child isn’t bound to a contract where they can be mistreated and exploited as soon as they fall out of someone’s vagina.

Older people? Professors, teachers, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, you name it- they don’t, shouldn’t really hold the right to demand respect served to them on a silver platter if they refuse to provide younger people the same treatment.

Good times with a person isn’t a free pass to take advantage of them, or to guilt trip them into thinking they owe you things.

You’d have to have to have a convoluted sense of love if you think abuse can be negated.

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https://darkwood.bandcamp.com/album/ins-dunkle-land

Darkwood - Ins Dunkle Land. 

Worth a listen. If anyone knows anything about this band please educate me because I can’t find jack shit on the interwebs.

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What the fuck are mushrooms what are they I have no clue please help

fruit but like. fungus fruit

like i wish i was making this up but like???? the reason they exist is for the same reasons fruit exists. like

fruit (meaning fruiting structures in this case, not fruits and veggies): 

-made by plonts

-basically just the expanded ovary of the plant after the plant has sexy times

-holds seeds, which are baby plants that are genetically different from the mother. when the fruit falls the babies use the food in the fruit to grow into new plants

mushrooms: 

-happen when two or more fungus living in the ground, in the wood, in whatever substrate the mushroom is growing on, have sexy times

-they dont really have typical sexy times?? like they just smash themselves together until they fuse and make a special arm thing made of cells with nuclei from all the fungi involved in the sexy fungus time

-the weird arm thing eventually grows up to above ground and develops into a mushroom with help from all the fungi parents underground

-the mushroom spits out spores. all the spores have recombined versions of the parents’ genes and are basically baby fungi cells. the mushroom pumps these out in the millions and they drift on the wind or whatever until they find a nice spot where they can live their happy fungus lives in peace. think about spores as seeds without the food for survival if it helps you???

-also a single mushroom can have up to 9 different parents

-and funguses can have literally 20k+ biological sexes so just smash that together and u prob have a baby one way or another 

-basically mushrooms exist so the fungi can reproduce spores in a way that can better get picked up and spread around. if they stayed underground, the babies wouldn’t be able to get anywhere; when the spores are pumped out above ground somehow, they can get picked up by the wind, rain, animals, whatever and can go find a better place to live. mushrooms are distribution organs. 

a good diagram (x): 

-also fun side fact scientists have learned that lightning strikes in some fungus patches greatly accelerate the rate of mushroom production in certain species, to the point where commercial mushroom farms shock some of their fungus patches to promote growth. we think this is an evolutionary thing that some species have developed in response to trees getting struck by lightning. like if a tree gets struck, the funguses around it are like guys we’re gonna get so much food omg and start reproducing because they can afford to if they’re about to get a giant dead tree to eat

fungi are weird man

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