#he’s got me hypnotised a la now you see me style

[wildelvishearts92]

‘ When he took me in his arms I felt my whole body shudder in anticipation of his desire to fuck me ‘

50 Shades of Elvis

Chapter one

It was 1972 I had just turned 20 and I had finished collage, it had been a long draggy year of studying , reading books sleepless nights worrying about exams that I had no time to actually go out and enjoy life with my friends meet new people of even meet a boy.

I’ve now moved back home temporarily till I find myself my own home for the first time, life was still the same even though I had been away for two years nothing had changed much at home.

My friends back home came to see me and invited me to go to a concert at the international hotel in Las Vegas which wasn’t too far from where I lived I asked them who we were going to see……….

Elvis fucking Presley !!!! , Now I had been in love with Elvis since I was very little from the moment I sore him in wild in the country movie a movie with not much recognition but is one of my favourites his beaming blue eyes caught me off guard and instantly drew me in his voice his style his beauty he was so perfect in every way i had never seen a person quite like him ever

Now knowing I would be in the same room as this man who I have had on my wall since I was 10 years old I had to make sure I looked perfect !!!

The day came we were going to the concert I was so excited and nervous …….. I’m gonna be in the same room and presence as Elvis fucking Presley !! He would never notice me but to be there with him is more then enough !!!

We got to the hotel rather earlier then anticipated so we all waited at the bar until we were aloud in to sit down, I could feel I was so nervous and excited I was starting to sweat I excused myself to go freshen up as I couldn’t be sweating in front of Elvis !!!

It was finally time to go in my friends had got vip tickets so we were right at the front right by the stage now we all know if your at the front your on for a kiss from Elvis Presley !!!

I was so excited I was right by the stage i could literally smell him I was that close !!! I was getting my self ready sitting adjusting my dress my hair making sure my makeup wasn’t smudged or I was sweating too much ! I was glancing over at the stage with the gold curtain down knowing at any moment those curtains will go up and Elvis will be there !!!!

The lights went down the music started and the curtains went up ……………… Elvis was in the building !!

He came out in a all white jump suit with silver buttons going up the middle and sides with a slit down the middle that went so low you could just see the top of his belly button his beautiful forest of chest hair glowing in the lights his beautiful tanned skin glowing in the spot light all ready covered in Elvis sweat I was in awe of what was in front me he was a god !

His beautiful black hair so shiny and smooth hands covered in beautiful sparkly rings ( his fingers were so long ….. ) then I looked at him with his beautiful blue eyes his cruked smile with his marshmallow lips all ready making my legs weak ……..

He started singing and I felt a shiver straight down my spine like he was singing into my soul his presence and voice was so powerful you couldn’t sit still for long the legs were twitching hands were flinching it was so much sensation from his voice it was hard to control

At this point I had forgotten I was with my friend I was lost in Elvis world and I never wanted escape, before long I found my eyes starting to wonder to place they shouldn’t off his jumpsuit was so tight on him it could of been painted on so you could see every inch of him so it was only a matter of time before my eyes wondered down to his waist and belt the bulge pressed together in his pants was hypnotising I felt I couldn’t not look at it he possessed my soul …….

We were coming to the end of the show and now Elvis was just about to do love me tender…… now we all know when he did this song women in the front row got a kiss from Elvis sometimes even two. This was my one and only chance to kiss the king.

He started to sing and at this point he was all sweaty and hot his hair a complete mess his tired looking eyes his jumpsuit barely clinging onto his shining body and he was starting to make his way through the crowd. He started on the other end and I was worried he wouldn’t get to me in time I waited patiently as he made his way along the line each women jumping for him to taste those gorgeous plump lips, he started to get closer and closer to me and he got to my table none of my friends wanted a kiss but me…………..

He made his way over I felt a huge rush go through me as he made eye contact with me for the first time all my nerves in my body heightened as he made his way forward and kneeled down infront of me …… ‘Come here baby’ he said as he took my hand and pulled me forward towards his mouth he gently pressed his soft lips on my mine at first he didn’t move them but then I felt him start to open his mouth so I moved with him the kiss sent a shiver straight down to the place I have never had any feeling before my pussy …… the rush of warmth I felt as he was massaging my lips with his felt incredible !!!

I pulled back thinking perhaps he may need to kiss other girls as I pulled away I noticed he didn’t want to stop he looked at me in a surprise manner as if I had just taken candy from a kid …….. ‘Where you going honey I ain’t finished’ he pulled me back roughly and kissed me again opening his mouth more this time and I felt this sudden wetness lump in my mouth … it was his tongue he was massaging his tongue against mine …….. how is this happening I’m French kissing Elvis my whole body was shaking , my fingers and toes were numb I felt we were kissing for ages but it was only for a split second

Elvis then pulled away and just stared at me as if he was staring into my soul ‘ Baby you taste good ‘ , I just froze as he stared at me with his smile and blue eyes gazing at me ‘Enjoy yourself honey I see you later ‘

Elvis had finished the show and had gone back to his dressing room we were all starting to leave the stage area and to head home I still had going through my head how Elvis had kissed me it was with so much passion and the feeling I had when he did it I had never felt any of that before I have had boyfriends before but they never made me feel like that …… we were walking. Through the hallway ready to leave when I got a tap on my shoulder by a man I wasn’t sure who it was so I was unsure what they wanted maybe it was a member of stuff asking something

‘ Hi I’m Jerry I work for Elvis Presley what’s your name ‘

What was happening I’m speaking to none other then Jerry everyone knows Jerry and he asking my name !!

I told him my name and he asked me if I would like to come meet Elvis up in his hotel room .. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing Elvis Presley in his hotel room wants to meet me !! I immediately said yes and told my friends to wait for me in the car as I’m going to meet Elvis !!

They couldn’t quite believe it they were so shocked and so was I ……. I followed Jerry up to Elvis room which was more like a second home for him as he performed so much at the hotel he was there more then he was at his actual home Graceland. Jerry opened the room doors and I walked through there were a load of people in his room all chatting laughing drinking smoking and at first I couldn’t see elvis but then as I turned the corner there he was sitting in a chair cigar hanging from his mouth still sweating from his performance tonight hair still messy and still In his jump suit with a white towel around his neck that was stained with his tan and makeup and sweat.

Jerry told me to sit down on the sofa opposite Elvis … ‘would you like a drink ‘ jerry asked , ‘yes please thank you ‘ I replied as I say nervously awaiting what Elvis was going to do I was playing with the bottom of my dress nervously as I looked up and noticed Elvis was staring at me from the opposite side …….. he had a sexy grin on his face whilst his eyes were staring straight at me his cigar was literally hanging from his bottom lip as he got up and started to make his way over to the sofa I was sitting on.

He sat right next to me … as he sat down his thigh brushed right across my bare thigh at the top of my skirt I felt a rush through me I started to get nervous he was so close I felt I couldn’t breathe ……..

‘ we meet again baby how did you enjoy the show ‘

‘I loved it Elvis, you were incredible !!!’ I replied quickly I couldn’t believe I was sitting here speaking to the king !! It made no sense !!

‘ Shall I take you on a tour of the room honey ? ‘ he quickly asked me as he stood throwing his towel over the side of the sofa and holding out his hand to me …..

‘I would love to ‘ I replied as I quickly took hold of his hand and walked with him through the hallway area into the what I thought was another room which was for all his Memphis mafia pals we were walking through and he showed me all the rooms in the suite it was so beautiful and so stylish just like Elvis although it had a dark quirky style to it but it made it more inviting to me Elvis always had a style beyond words about him and everything around him was the same.

He had shown me all the other parts of the suite and we were walking back to where we had just come from as we were walking back Elvis suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me into what I would describe as the en suite to his bedroom where all his mates were he quickly shut the door and pressed me up firmly against the door with his hand by my waist slightly pinching my tummy as he did it ……….. what was happening I now had Elvis in front of me gazing at me with his beautiful blue eyes , he looked me up and down as I nervously breathed ‘ What’s happening Elvis ‘ I nervously asked

‘ That kiss baby was incredible I would like to try it again ‘

Too stunned to say anything I just froze Elvis Presley wants to kiss me again !! Does this mean he fancies me likes me what is happening right now

Before I could even respond I felt his hand move up towards my cheeks as he held my face and pulled it closer to his we were nose to nose he was gazing in my eyes and his breathing was caressing my skin as he admired my lips ……..

‘ I want to taste your lips again baby can I ‘

Without hesitation I nodded and I wanted him to kiss me so badly the rush going through my body was so powerful I couldn’t control it every inch of my body wanted his lips to caress mine so I started to lean in as I leant in he stopped me with his hand on my chin

‘ No baby let me lead ‘ he moaned and with that he pulled my chin towards him as his lips pressed against mine with his hand still holding my chin he started to open my mouth with his slowly putting his tongue in my mouth massaging my tongue with his the warmth came all over me I could feel I was becoming wet down there my nipples were hardened everything was aching for Elvis ……… he began kissing passionately more rougher pushing my head further towards the door, I reached my hands up and they were in his hair pulling his hair slightly he moved his hands now to my waist pulling me in towards him , his sweat wiping all over and his bare chest under his jumpsuit was pressed against my breasts the kiss was so passionate I started to want more I wanted him to fuck me there and then I pulled his head closer to me as he kissed me as I did that he pulled back looked at me and grinned

‘ we are eager aren’t we all in good time little one ‘

He kissed me again and then left my lips aching for more my whole body was aching for him and as I looked down I could see his body was aching for mine he cock was hard !!! I couldn’t stop looking

‘ I want you so bad little one ‘ he whispered in my ear as I was staring at his hard on !!

Before I could even respond or do anything Elvis had taken my hand and led me out of the bathroom.

Chapter 2

We went back into the room where everyone was still chatting smoking and drinking I had forgotten that whilst I was kissing Elvis not metres away there was a bunch of people who could of heard us kissing against the door !!

Elvis placed me down on the sofa again and caressed my hand as he let go of it he gave me a soft grin and whispered ‘meet me later honey, we have much more to explore’ ……… as he walked away I was frozen what did he mean did he mean I’m to stay here with him are we going to fuck is he going to show me record what the fuck does he mean ! I was nervous and excited I sat on the sofa nervously biting my nails thinking what’s going to happen ! At that moment Jerry came over to me and asked me if there was anyone I would like to call to let them know I’m okay ? ‘Yes my friends and family ‘ I said … in the heat of what had happened I forgot my friends were still wondering about what was happening so I had to let them know I was safe.

A few hours went by and I hadn’t seen Elvis anywhere the room was starting to clear with people and starting to grow quieter only Jerry and a few other people were left in the room Jerry was always making sure I was okay and had a drink …. But all I could concentrate on was where Elvis was and what he meant by his comment !! The anticipation was suffocating I needed to know.

At that moment the door opened from Elvis bedroom and he walked out still in his white suit hair more messy eyes more tired sweat now dried but his chest hair still glistening he walked over to Jerry said something to him and in that moment Jerry cleared the room of the remaining people and left just me and Elvis…���.

I was still sitting on the end of the sofa Elvis shut the door as Jerry left and turned around to look at me … ‘finally we can be alone little one’ he chuckled as he walked over to me and sat on the opposite sofa … he sat down slouched back with legs spread wide open and his left hand resting between his legs.

He was just sitting staring at me with his seductive blue eyes and cheeky grin casually biting his bottom lip….. ‘So honey did you enjoy the show tonight ‘ he asked

‘I loved it Elvis it was incredible you really are an incredible performer ! ‘ I said nervously as he was still biting his lip looking at me it was so hard to concentrate at this point the lip biting was very distracting !!

‘ Thanks baby ‘ he chuckled as he slowly closed his legs and stood and made his way over to me …. At this point I froze looking at the stunning man walking towards me , he stood directly in front of me and kneeled down so he was just level with my knees … ‘ I really want to kiss you again honey, I enjoyed it ‘ as he was saying this he slowly placed his hand on my knee … I felt a huge rush go through me as he touched me it’s was incredible I want nothing more then for him to touch me all over but I was too nervous to tell him !! Nervously I responded ‘I want to kiss you again to Elvis ‘ trying again to take the lead I started to lean forward to kiss him but once again he pushed me back towards the sofa leaned forward placed his fingers on my mouth and moaned ‘No baby I don’t want to kiss you there , I want to kiss you here …..’ confused I slowly felt him grab the bottom of my skirt and move it slightly up towards my hips just enough you could see the front of panties ….. he brought his hands slowly back down to my knees and placed a hand on each knee and slowly spread my legs apart and moved himself in between them………. I gasped with the touch of him doing this I could feel I was getting turned on just by him doing this .

He took his fingers and slowly brushed them up the side on my right thigh moving towards the outline of my panties and them placing them directly on the front of my panties slowly brushing my clit which was now getting soaking wet ………. ‘ Can I kiss you here honey’ he moaned as he continued to softly rub his fingers on my panty fabric which was making my clit more and more wet ………. Breathless and turned on I looked at him as his beaming blue eyes were looking at me and him biting his lip each time he rubbed my clit…….. ‘Yes please I want you Elvis ‘ I moaned and with that response he stopped biting his lip and grinned and chuckled as he moved his hand back down to my knees moving my legs more apart.

My legs were spread open now and he lifted both my legs on to his shoulders resting them there as he held them with his hands I couldn’t t stop watching him and his eyes never left mine as he started to kiss the top of my legs softly and passionately like he was caressing every inch of my skin each time he kissed he pinched with his hand the sensation was rushing through me my hands were going numb and toes were curling…. With each kiss he moved closer and closer towards my panties all the while keeping eye contact with me as he moved closer to my pussy which is now getting wetter and wetter he started to nibble with his teeth as he kissed my thighs still pinching my legs with his hands and the biting was making me slightly moan I couldn’t control it the feeling the sensation the fact I had elvis in between my legs biting and kissing my thighs in his white suit from the show made me so horny I couldn’t control it ……. He gradually moved further and further until he got to my panties he moved his mouth over to the middle of my panties and placed his mouth jsut on top of my clit the fabric and him kissing made my clit throb i was so turned on I wanted him inside me there and then at that point he stopped brought his head up and moaned ‘ Baby can I take these off I want to taste you !’

‘ Please Elvis yes ‘ I groaned as the anticipation of him eating me out was growing so strong inside me !

He moaned as I answered and grinned as he slowly took my panties off and throwing them behind him and now placing my legs beside his thighs spread wide open … he slowly made his way up again towards my pussy kissing and biting as he moved further and further up as he got to my pussy which was now soaking wet he softly grazed his lip across my clit I flinched and let out a loud moan as the tease of his lips made me shiver and get so hot ! He chuckled by my reaction and did it again …… ‘ Stop being a tease Elvis’ I blurted out !!! I couldn’t believe I said that I couldn’t control it he was making me lose all control of my body and emotions.

‘ How badly do you want me to kiss you baby ‘ he moaned as he brushed his lips again past my clit making me moan more ……….. ‘ please elvis I’m begging’ I groaned and with that he moaned and slowly placed his tongue on my clit massaging slowly I gasped as his wet tongue touch my wet clit the sensation was incredible I grabbed the sofa and held on tight as he slowly sucked on my clit brushing his tongue up and down tickling the tip of me…..

#elvis photos #elvis x reader #elvis fans #elvis smut #70s elvis

[rogermeaddows]

Okay but Gwilym Lee could legit be a hypnotist or something. He’s certainly got the eyes for it. Like literally the most gorgeous things I’ve ever seen

you know what? you’re right and you should say it, god knows he’s got me hooked on some level! maybe it’s some ancient welsh magic he possesses? god, tall tree man tell us your ways!!!

#no but seriously #what a man #he’s got me hypnotised a la now you see me style #he could definitely persuade me to rob a bank or some shit #ugh he’s too powerful!! #gwilym

[9hwa9joong]

My Top Songs [2020]

Hi all!

As 2020 comes to an end (thank whatever higher power there is), I wanted to share a list of my favorite songs! (the following are songs RELEASED this year) (I’ve included a list of songs that I heard this year, but weren’t released in 2020, after it). These are mostly korean/chinese.

Alright, this is in NO particular order, just my favorites. I’ve mostly included one song from a group/solo act and added their other great releases in description. It is mostly music that I listened to, so if your favs are not here, feel free to rec me good music! ENJOY!

(the list ended up becoming quite long, so read under the cut)

Black swan(orchestral version) by BTS

BTS had a great year musically. 2 korean albums, 1 japanese and lots of solo stuff. My most played songs are Dynamite (listen, she did what she had to do), Stay Gold (if gold had a sound, this would be it), Black Swan, Blue and Grey (i live for melancholy), Life Goes On (spring day’s successor), Filter(park jimin is a threat), Friends (my feels!), Louder than bombs (TROYE SIVAN), UGH (murder music), 00:00, Moon (jin solos are beautiful always) and Your Eyes Tell (honestly, show me one bad japanese single, i dare you).

Ghosting by TXT

I got into TXT a lot more this year, as opposed to being a casual listener that I was last year. Many people say they have a no-skip discography and I believe it’s true. My most played songs were Blue Hour (i ADORE this song), We Lost the summer, Wishlist, Can’t you see me (the song that made me a stan), Fairy of Shampoo (ethereal), PUMA (choi yeonjun is a threat), Eternally (an ATTACKK!) and their f2020 cover.

Answer by ATEEZ

Ateez is another group i really got into this year, mesmerized by their performance abilities. My most played : Star 1117 (i’m very soft for this song), To the Beat (a true bop), Inception (holy jongho vocals), One day at a time and Good Lil Boy (does hongjoong ever have a bad rap verse?). Their Black Cat Nero cover also blew me away!! (i’m lowkey obsessed).

God’s menu by Stray Kids

I’ve been keeping an eye on Stray Kids ever since hellevator came out and this is my favourite song by them, so far (yes, i had a heart attack when i first saw Hyunjin). Most Played : Back Door (the beat drop gives me life, the choreo is probably my fav), All in, Easy (do they ever have a bad chorus?), GO LIVE (the beat??!! killer), Another Day (i am a slow jam hoe) and My Universe.

Pacman by eaJ   

I didn’t think it was possible to love him more after day6 but Jae’s solo music has proved me wrong. Yes, i love Pillows (with Keshi) to bits but pacman is my first love. Most Played : It just is (Seori and their golden vocals), LA TRAINS (vocals!!!), Pinocchio (the mv is adorable, the beat is so fun), 50 proof (the vibes man, it's the VIBES) and TRUMAN.

Left & Right by Seventeen

Another group with amazing releases this year, I’m slowly getting into Seventeen more these days. Most Played : Fallin’ Flower (so beautiful, the vocals), 24H (the beat change?!!???), 17 (Joshua, DK and Pink Sweats) and HOME;RUN (this is a brand of fun that is entirely their own).

Not by the moon by GOT7

I am no stranger to GOT7, i’ve liked their music for years now but this is one of their more lyrical releases this year and i adore when GOT7 does this type of music. Most Played : Poison (jackson opens it and the vibes are immaculate), Last Piece (the way the vocals flow into the rap) and Thank You, Sorry.

So Beautiful by DPR IAN

This is literally the first song i’ve heard from this artist, please rec me more. I also adore No Blueberries with DPR LIVE and CL.

Eight by IU, Prod. SUGA

IU is an indisputable vocal queen, and her music always comforts me greatly so when i heard she was having a song produced by Yoongi, i promptly lost my shit. It was everything I expected and more and embodies sorrow and pain with great grace. Give you My Heart from the ‘Crash Landing on you OST’ was also a loved song this year.

Cry for me by TWICE

How do i talk about the queens? TWICE is the group i go to when I want fun music with good vibes but this song has such bad b*tch vibes that i am in love. Most played : More & More (a bop), Don’t call me again, I can’t stop me (i love the way it flows), Handle It (the vocals??? How pretty this song is???) and Say Something (seriously, eyes wide open is an amazing album).

Criminal by Teamin

Where do i start with Lee Taemin? I love almost all his solo stuff. He grabbed me by the neck ever since ‘Move’ and hasn't let go. Criminal is SO taemin that i don't think anyone else could have delivered the concept with such grace and grit. Most Played : 2 Kids (the chorus is so good), Clockwork, Idea (i love the vibe) and Pansy (i'm a ballad hoe).

Maria by Hwasa

Listen, i loved Twit when it came out but i love Maria as her sound so much more. Most Played : I’m bad too (feat. DPR LIVE) (i love the beat, the vibe and the flavor), LMM and Orbit from ‘The King: Eternal Monarch OST’ (as soon as her voice comes in, i loved the song).

Breath by DEAN, Rad Museum, Mokyo

I’m not aware of many DEAN releases this year, please feel free to rec me if I missed any.

Dear my friend by Agust D ft. Kim Jong Wan (NELL)

D-2 was everything expected from the second mixtape off Agust D and yet it brought a fresh wave of singing and melodies, once again proving the man’s production genius. This song is so reminiscent in it’s lyrics and still so real, its my favorite off the record.Other songs I loved : People, Deachwita and What do you think? (i DID love the complete mixtape though).

Given - Taken by Enhypen

Yes, I watched  I-LAND. Given-Taken was a better debut then I expected at first. 10 months (the chorus and beat) and Flicker off their debut album were also played a lot. 

I just want to stay with you by Zion.T

The King: Eternal Monarch was a much awaited drama for a lot of people and it’s OST is one of the best ones this year. Zion.T’s amazing vocals really did an amazing job of expressing the love in the story. Other songs I really liked from this album were Gravity by Kim Jong Wan and the Hydrangea Instrumental by Lee Geon Yeong.

The purge by Jay Park, pH-1, Woodie Gochild, Sik-K, and others.

H1GHER: RED TAPE is my hype album of the year. All artists involved did an amazing job. Seriously, get yourself some bomb ass beats, as a treat. Other loved tracks : Telefono Remix (Woodie Gochild is great at his flavour of delivery), Closed Case and The Arrival.

Soul by Lay (zhang yixing)

Yixing’s album LIT was his best project till date, no arguments. He’s really evolved into such a refined musician, especially with how well he merges traditional chinese instruments into Hip Hop/RnB beats and I adore the vibe of this album. Although the album is great entirely, Soul is my favourite for how softly and prettily it flows. Other loved tracks: Eagle (the BEAT), Fly, Boom (bops on bops on BOPS) and Call My Name.

100 ways by Jackson Wang

It is astounding how well Jackson has formed his own style of music ever since starting off with Papillon. He’s also sort of come into himself as an artist and it has birthed some great music. Other loved tracks : Pretty Please (i love the vibe of the song!) and Should’ve Let Go (ft. JJ Lin).

SUGA’s interlude by Halsey 

Idk how else to explain it but Halsey and Yoongi have great music synergy. There’s something about their song/lyric writing that matches very well and needless to say, I adore the song. Blueberry eyes by MAX is also another great Yoongi collab.

In Your Time by Lee Suhyun

It’s Okay to not be Okay had an OST that was dreamy, gritty and very fairytale-esque, much like the drama itself. Among a bunch of great songs, this one is my favourite. Other loved songs: You’re Cold by Heize (always delivers!), Breath by Sam Kim (OST angel), Hallelujah by Kim Feel (chills!), In Silence by Janet Suhh (literally how angelic is her tone??), I’m your Psycho by Janet Suhh (it’s creepy in a dreamy way) and Brother | Her World | Through the dark Tunnel of time | Butterfly - all amazing instrumentals by Nam Hye Seung and Park Sang Hee (seriously, go listen to the album).

By my side by Junny

Another great discovery towards the end of the Year, Junny has vocals for DAYS and admirable delivery. Other loved songs: AURA ft. pH-1, edge (this is so hypnotising in it’s beauty) and I will. Please feel welcome to educate me more about this artist!!

Make a Wish by NCT

NCT always provides bops and NCT U is my favourite sub-unit, for their unique style of music, so when they came out with this song I was ready and they delivered! Most Played : 90’s Love  (the old boy band theme was so well done), From Home (i’m a sucker for slow songs), Nectar (yes, i adore WayV’s music), MAD DOG by NCT 127 and Kick It by NCT 127 (this is the flavour of NCT i LOVE).

Zombie by Day6

Day6 has always been in my daily otations and as always, they put out good music after good music. I loved both the original Korean and the English versions of this song (they do rock well, what else is there to say?). Other loved songs : Tick Tock (oh the vocals, the way the beat moves!), Love me or Leave me, Day and Night... actually the whole Album is great, go listen to ‘The Book of us: The Demon’.

Fearless by Ma Di [other chinese songs]

Chinese songs have been a surprisingly pleasant addition to my daily rotation. Fearless from the “Go Ahead” OST takes the top stop because of how well it embodies the struggles of stepping into adulthood, the melody and MaDi’s amazing vocals. Other Chinese songs I loved: Praise for Red Plum Blossoms by Xiao Zhan (the perfect welcoming of spring paired with  such expressive vocals), Remaining Years by Xiao Zhan (Joy of Life OST) and his OST for the Oath of Love.

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The following is the list of songs I heard in 2020, but were not released in 2020. Please let me know if you like them, or if you know other similar music! (I know, I know, I’m late to the game) Enjoy!

DEAN - Sometimes I hear Howlin' in my head 

Zhang Jie/Zhang Bichen - Simple Wish 

Li Ronghao - If I were Young

JJ Lin - What I Miss

Ateez - Mist | Twilight | Wonderland | Say my name | Thank you 

Stray Kids - voices

Seventeen - Trauma

Loona - Hi High

Day6 - Shoot me 

GOT7 - You calling my Name 

RADWIMPS - Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?

Baekhyun - UN Village

Taemin - Goodbye | want

Aquillo - Silhouette

Talos - To Each His Own

Cigarettes after sex (literally everything)

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I know this was long, if you read it till the end, I hope you all enjoyed it still.

Have a smooth year in 2021,

-love, c.

#top songs #top songs 2020 #BTS #TXT #ateez #stray kids #eaj #eajpark #jae park #seventeen #got7 #dpr ian #dpr #dpr live #cl #iu #min suga #yoongi #min yoongi #agust d #twice #taemin #lee taemin #hwasa #DEAN #rad museum #mokyo #enhypen #jay park #ph-1

[paulineguillouzichnd1]

TRIPTYC

 Project

Without the use of words produce a series of connected images that visually illustrate who you are?

Exploring the work of other photographers and/or artists will help you develop a ‘visual story’ for your own work.

Give some thought to the things that are important to you. Everything you have ever done, the places you visit, the music you love, the stuff you keep, the memories and mementos carefully stored away are all part of what makes you unique. Consider how you might best illustrate who you are?

Produce:

1. Relevant research, planning and development of your work in your blog page.                                                                

2. One A3 ‘triptych’ portfolio quality print (A self-portrait, a place you’re connected to, an object significant to you).

3.Three Individual full res 300ppi jpg files uploaded to My City.

Research:

A bit of history...

Triptych is a kind of painting, or rather a surface where to paint. The first triptych that I could think of was the one by Jérôme Bosch, with his painting called The Garden of Earthly Delights (painted between 1490 and 1510) that I studied back at university in France when we were working on the Renaissance period (XIV-XVI). It mostly means that this period was a clear turning point from Middle Age in Art, Humanism, Science, Religion and generally in life (the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg, exploring the world, trade...) and really, the idea of creating my own triptych was very scary at that point.

I kept on doing some research, googling “triptych painting” “triptych photography” and was extremely surprised when I found out that triptych were actually a lot older: Middle Age where

“Les premiers exemples de polyptyques apparaissent en effet entre le Xe et le XIIe siècle, qu’il s’agisse encore de petits objets – essentiellement des diptyques et triptyques – voués à la dévotion personnelle, ou bientôt de grands retables placés sur les autels [dans les] églises et des chapelles.”

(’The first examples of polyptychs appeared between the 10th and 12th century, whether small objects -mostly diptychs and triptychs, destined for personal devotion, or soon great altarpiece, placed on altars [in] churches and chapels’) 

page 1, Du triptyque, ou d’une forme entre tradition et modernité

These 3 panels were, then, not just a biblical reference (Holy Trinity?) but also a practical choice to have your painting standing and seen by the audience from their seats. Easily moved as well from one place to another (I know well enough that kings at that time were packing and moving their furniture, clothes, important stuffs with them from one castle to another-secretly thanking my parents for having me visiting that many castles in France when I was a kid :P)

But then, again, the more I got to see paintings, photographs described as triptychs, the more I came to realise that triptychs had lost their ‘practicality’, being hang on walls, looked at but soon forgotten. It somehow made me feel a bit sad: why should paintings be statics as objects that are going to stand there? It surely is difficult to take your paintings/photographies with you once they’re finished (Ryanair would charge you a lot of money for that...) but in any new place where I’ve lived, my books, photographies and paintings have always been there to remind me of who I was, where I was coming from and I usually have with me a selection of the ones I like the most.

This reminded me of Byōbu (Japanese screen), how you get to use art in your everyday life, hiding/privacy... or worshipping?

Back to History...

During the 19th Century (and especially around 1880-1890) in Europe, painters used this form of canvas as a sort of commemoration of tradition and modernity: religious subjects, structured as the ones produced during the Middle Age, but with far more bigger dimensions (the one example underneath, Saint Cuthbert by Ernest-Ange Duez (1843-1896), was exposed at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1879 and was more than 6 meters long.

19th Century, resurgence of TRIPTYCHS !

It’s very funny/ambiguous  to see that painters would choose that type of canvas to paint, and especially at that time in History. The 19th century in France (beginning of it - until 1850, roughly) saw the birth of Romantic writers (I’m thinking of Victor Hugo in France, William Wordsworth and John Keats in England, E. T. A. Hoffmann in Germany) or painters (Caspar David Friedrich with his Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Francisco de Goya, Eugene Delacroix with his self-portrait where he paints himself as Hamlet or his painting called La liberty guidance le people (Liberty leading the people). Romantics like the Bible as it is an endless source of inspiration for them, dramatic stories to paint, or write about (no judgment intended!).

However, at the end of the 19th century, most artists would claim themselves as Realists (or Naturalists) which implied a true-to-life style which involves the representation or depiction of nature (including people) with the least possible distortion or interpretation. It sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life. The movement aimed to focus on unidealized subjects and events that were previously rejected in art work. Realist works depicted people of all classes in situations that arise in ordinary life, and often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions.

How comes that in this particular time of History, painters would choose on purpose a type of painting whose main connotations were ‘Middle Age’ and ‘Religious subjects’? when one of their main subjects was real life: working class, farmers, factories, coal mine and that this period is also somehow related strikes, popular movement and the rise of socialism/anarchism?

Life is full of contradictions :) 

L'Oeuvre de la goutte de lait", Jean Geoffroy (1903)

Le bon marche (The good market), Felix Vallotton, 1898.

La Mine: La Descente ; Le Calvaire ; La Remonte, (Mine: descending, the calvary, climbing up)

Other paintings:

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Francis Bacon, 1944

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, 1969

Bacon, as a painter, is someone I deeply admire. He’s not afraid of what most people would find scary or shocking. 

Although he was declared as unfit for active wartime service, lots of his paintings remind me of what we call ‘the broken faces’ (Les gueules casses) in French), disfigured soldiers from WW1 and WW2. Looking at his paintings is discomforting, unsettling. You want to look away but it’s also hard to do so. It’s powerful, in your face, disturbing but also hypnotising somehow?

It reminds me of the Motion blur in photography, as a representation of both physical and mental issues or simply this continuous mental conversation people have with themselves. Personal problems that are unresolved.

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Edward Honaker

Kyle Thompson

General:

When I started looking into what triptycs were, I loved this one example and the use of lines and the characters’s way of looking at each other and guiding the viewer into the paiting:

I also felt slightly claustrophobic about the idea of having so much details and stuff going on in my triptyc so I thought that the best way for me to give the viewer some space would be to make it as straigthforward and empty as possible but I wanted the “place” to be the same on the three pictures and be my link between the different photos as in the example above (cathedral?).

I came up with this drawing which was a first idea of what I wanted my triptyc to look like in the end:

On the left side, OBJECT, in the middle PLACE and on the right side SELF-PORTRAIT.

I would have to be very careful with the left and right pictures that were meant to be taken at a specific angle and match each other. The central picture would have been a family portrait. The table was meant to be the element that the 3 pictures had in common, guiding the viewer into the photo.

Black and White: I didn’t even really concider using colour pictures as I think Black and White Pictures give a better sense of what I wanted to express in my triptych.

OBJECT: Memories.

I chose to use my diary as an object because I’ve been journalling since I was roughly 8 or 9  and still have my notebooks from that time. It’s an incredible experience for me to open and re-read these journals. It feels like I’m back in the past at that exact moment and I almost see the younger version of myself, sitting on a chair and recording her memories. It felt a bit cheesy and cliché at first but it then became a cathartic exercise. It has now become a daily habit, 20 mns of writing, no lie, just the plain truth, my truth as it is (and its not just pretty and beautiful!)

PLACE: Rest[e]. In French, Reste means stay. I have always found funny that this particular word was so close to the English word Rest which involves an idea of settling, relaxing and peace of mind. For me staying and relaxing have long been two words that were almost like enemies: I needed to travel, I needed to go to the next place, I didn’t want to stop because that’d have been the end of me. But the older I get, the more I realise that I need to rest[e], I just don’t know where. Home is where I grew up, and more than a place, home is a composition of people that I have always had around me: parents, brother, sisters and friends. I wanted them in my pictures: memories of birthdays, Christmas and laughters . These endless meals sitting at the table and time stops.

SELF-PORTRAIT: I personally find it hard to deal with emotions and have had mood swings since a young age, experiencing panick attack and depression since I was a teenager. As many of us, I have learnt to put a smile on my face because that’s easier. I felt that having a static self-portrait would be a lie as my personality is so changing. When I found out about Picasso. I remember watching some of his paitings and seing them moving (face, places) and fet impressed. I also wanted to use where I was looking as a way to ‘direct’ the viewer in the tryptic, looking back at my PLACE and OBJECT, living with memories. The outside photos are black and white and could be anywhere. The central picture however is home, or a memory of home, one of the numerous ones recorded in my diary.

First attempt self-portrait: I was working with a shutter speed between 3 and 6 seconds. The 2 main challenges were to find a shutter speed that would have my faces standing and lying on the table with the motion blur in between.

One thing I didn't really consider was the angle of the table because ideally I wanted my triptych to have a symmetrical effect between the picture on the left (my object) and on the right side of the middle picture (family table).

This is my second attempt: same shutter speed but now, the table has a different angle. I made sure the left angle of the table was visible (I wanted the table to be on each picture, almost as a timeline/virtual line to give a sense of unity.

Last week, when we critted each other’s tryptic, one o the comments that was made was about the corner of the table (self portrait) that wasn’t visible enough, so I also worked with photoshop (shadows, highlight and exposure + brightness) to change it. It still isn’t perfect but the photos were taken one week apart in different studios.

The way I sit is also an echo of the middle picture (the one where I am sitting at my table back in France). Memories, and sometimes the sadness of being apart from your family can be heavy at times.

I am looking towards the first picture, looking back (at my memories?).

OBJECT:

As mentioned earlier, the object I chose is my diary. I almost wanted it to look like a still life picture: the viewers can see that someone has just left and was writing at that table a few minutes ago but has now left. What they need to focus on is this page: Why is that open? That’s the end of a diary. Why has the person gone?

I made several attempt at taking that picture: with a different pencil, with a hairdryer (and the pages being blurred). I also thought about being on the picture a bit like a ghost but then it just ended not having a good effect, there was too much of me in the 3 pictures.

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FAMILY PORTRAIT:

The place was meant to be an echo of my living room back in France (food, family or friends, wine, laughter), and opposed to the two sides of the table, that aren’t home to me. The table clothes, the mess, the framing that looks more of what my dad would take as a family picture isn’t even correct: the lady on the left is off-frame, and so is her plate. What we see here is someone just grabbing a camera and shooting without really thinking about composition. Spontanous, recording a good moment. I think this triptyc talks a lot about recording, remembering, not forgetting as well.

I used two ladies to help me (their matching clothes and hair is pure coincidence) as I live in a family of women and women are extremely strong in my family (men too!!).

The two students were super patient and we tried different head movement (up and down, left-right). Grant played my part while I was framing the photo and then I sat in the middle.

The way I sit is meant to be an echo of the way I sit in my self-portrait, as a memory kept in my mind, a version of myself I used to be but that has partly gone now. It’s also a triptyc about moving on but being stuck in memories as well

Material I use : a tripod, my DSLR, a 24-105mm lense set at 70mm, the school studio and a few people to help me with the PLACE.

FINAL TRIPTYCH:

Evaluation:

I have been surprised from the feedback I got from the other students who, I thought, got it very well. I feel that I would have wanted to try to have the tables not on a straight line but rather with an angle, as first plan but I feel that I didn’t have the technique (studio wise) to achieve it in a rather short period of time (studios being available only on certain days). I think that if I was to redo it, I’d probably make sure I’d have a better control over the light (first and third picture) and plan my second picture a little bit better (models, position of my models). I am really happy about my third picture and to have attempted to try the motion blur, as it is a technique that is widely used amongts photographers (I’m thinking about the exhibition on portraits with Francesca Woodman!)

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My May playlist is finished and it’s got everything from Rachmaninoff to Peaches across 3 and a half hours, I hope you enjoy it.

If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead - James Blake: James Blake has got such a big brain and this song is unbelievable. He has such a way of taking things that could be gimmicky like this vocal stuttering, or looping vocals and making them totally heartrending.

The Boxer - The Chemical Brothers: The central melody of this song is constantly stuck in my head and complete proof that you can make an incredibly catchy hook with just three notes if you need to.

known(1) - Autechre: I think this is maybe Autechre's most straightforward song but it still sounds like a harpsichord concerto getting sucked into a black hole. The way the violin-ish part swoops around throughout the whole thing, disintegrating and reforming before your eyes is hypnotising.

Sundown - Boards Of Canada: Guess who started crying this month listening to an ambient Boards Of Canada song thinking about how the end of soil is within my lifetime and we have destroyed our only home the earth!!

Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys: With their new album coming out I went back and listened to AM for the first time in a while and it's still really astonishing what they pulled off. This and R U Mine? completely blew me away when they came out. Having the audacity to completely change your sound and style and have it work perfectly is amazing, and then disappearing for five years and trying to do it again? Bold.

FML - Kanye West: I was listening to this a lot when Kanye was off his lexapro and fucking his whole life up. And now there's a sequel to this on the new album where Kim's begging him not to fuck the money up, which I think is a very good kind of storytelling.

United P92 - Venetian Snares & Daniel Lanois: I love the idea of ambient Venetian Snares and this is the song on the album where their two ideas meet in the middle the best I think. Also the way this builds and builds into total chaos I always forget that it's coming and get surprised when it says 'the machine can cum', what a funny song.

Turnstile Blues - Autolux: I saw Autolux's drummer in Jack White's band when he played on SNL a couple of weeks ago and suddenly remembered how perfect this song is. A true testament to the power of a simple groove that sounds like it was recorded in a concrete garage.

Young For Eternity - The Subways: Yet another great song about being a vampire and all the benefits that vampirism can bring to your life! Thank god for Dracula! He sucked the shit out of me, now I can leave my work for nights and leave my days for sleeping! Young for eternity!

Oh Yeah - The Subways: I bought a 7" of this song a couple of weeks ago in honour of the time it inexplicably caused me a mental breakdown and made me sprint out of my house to drive around town crying and listening to it on repeat for some hours about 5 years ago. Not sure what that was about!

The Blues - Defeater: As far as songs that go for less than a minute go, I really can't fault this one. Pure power, it does absolutely everything it sets out to do and still manages to get two choruses in under the wire.

Bombay - El Guincho: I saw Holy Mountain this month in a double feature with El Topo, and although El Topo kind of sucked I loved The Holy Mountain a lot. There's a part where there's been a battle and a whole lot of protesters are dying on the ground bleeding, except you can see that the blood and guts are obviously special effects, you can see the hose that she's using to pretend to cry and the guts are green balloons and things like that. Hold on I found it on youtube anyway I know I've seen it before and I thought it was in the video to this song or another one of CANADA's videos but I watched them all and can't find it! If anyone can tell me the music video I'm thinking of, thankyou. This song is also, of course, good.

Swim Good - Frank Ocean: Honestly has there ever been a better song about wearing a cool suit and driving your car into the ocean?? Never. This is perhaps the best sing along song ever because you've got to do your smoothest voice ever until he does his little emo yells of 'I'm goin out!' near the end.

Batphone - Arctic Monkeys: I think this is my favourite song off the new Arctive Monkeys, it's the most '3am slamming away at a club piano' type vibe of them all, but most of all I love the little spiralling into space guitar noise that keeps happening whenever he finishes a line.

An Open Letter To NYC - Beastie Boys: I'm almost always thinking about the time Beastie Boys made a very serious song about how good New York is after 9/11 and they said 'dear New York I know a lot has changed, we're two towers down but we're still in the game'.

Black Car - Beach House: I can't get enough of the new Beach House album, and this song in particular. It's some of my favourite lyrics of theirs ever, a good song for when you're trapped in a dark labyrinth of your own creation.

Midnight Radio 1 - Bohren & Der Club Of Gore: Got quite heavily into Bohren & Der Club Of Gore again this month. This is from the album before they got rid of their guitarist and replaced him with a saxophonist, which pretty dramatically changed their sound from 'extremely brooding night music' to 'film noir soundtrack', which is still very good but really not the same. Anyway this song goes for 20 minutes and it feels illegal to listen to it any time before 2am.

House In LA - Jungle: I am so excited that Jungle are finally back and with such an amazing song too. I love how spacious this is, it feels very different to their first - a lot more grown up and I really can't wait for the album.

Lemonworld - The National: Someone had a tweet a while ago that was like 'the guy from the national sounds like he's been going through a divorce for ten years now' which is very true, but this song feels like it's from happier times when he went to see his sister in law and had an morosely horny time. This song feels like the entire experience of reading a literary novel condensed into 4 minutes: a depressed older man in New York having a sort of backwards, confusing sexual thought. This is a song I regularly listen to on repeat and sing along to, it's a very specific feeling and I think "it'll take a better war to kill a college man like me" is one of the best lines he's ever written.

Rigamortis - Zomby: I put off listening to the new Zomby album for so long because his last one was just so boring but he's completely redeemed himself on this, it's really something. It feels like one long piece, which is amazing when any sort of thematic coherence is a rarity for Zomby albums. There's a lot of recurring sounds and motifs, and almost zero drums in the traditional sense. It feels like a really mature reflection on grime that he's been building up to for years.

Indoors - Burial: Whereas this song sounds like you're waiting outside a club in hell.

Segeln Ohne Wind - Bohren & Der Club Of Gore: Another Bohren song but from much, much later. I love the way the brass sounds in this when it finally comes in, it's so rich and overpowering.

Isle Of The Dead - Segei Rachmaninoff: Wikipedia says "The piece was inspired by a black and white reproduction of Arnold Böcklin's painting, Isle of the Dead, which Rachmaninoff saw in Paris in 1907. Rachmaninoff was disappointed by the original painting when he later saw it, saying, "If I had seen first the original, I, probably, would have not written my Isle of the Dead. I like it in black and white." and it also says "Prints were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century—Vladimir Nabokov observed in his novel Despair that they could be "found in every Berlin home". Folks what is going on with this spooky painting.

Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction: For a long time this was the emergency dead air song on Triple J, which is an inspired choice in my opinion because there'd be ten seconds of eerie silence because something's gone wrong at the station and then suddenly two huge loud chords! and dogs barking! A BEEN CAUGHT STEEL IN! ONCE!

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel: I was sitting on the toilet when I saw a news article that said Peter Gabriel has finally made his music available on Spotify and I said 'yessssssss' loudly myself and then played Sledgehammer. Honorable mention to the best ever sample of this song in Contemporary Man by Action Bronson, which is unfortunately still unavailable on Spotify.

Reaching The Gulf - Dylan Carlson: I saw a review of this album saying Dylan Carlson is the only choice for soundtrack if they ver make a movie of Blood Meridian and they're completely right. I'm also so glad that he collaborated with Emma Ruth Rundle on this, it feels like the closest I'll get to bonus tracks to her Electric Guitar One album.

T-1000 - Swarms: I have no idea where or why I first heard this album but it's been in my rotation for a long time. It's in the general canon of post-Burial dubstep before dubstep got americanized and it's just very nice. When the vocals finally come in on this it's a very emotional moment for me.

Casino Trem - Tyondai Braxton: It's really surprising listening to Tyondai Braxton's work after Battles because he has such a distinct melodic style it's shocking to realise how much he brought to that first album. After listening to a lot of his solo stuff it becomes so recognisable it almost feels like you can go back through Mirroroed and pick out every single guitar line of his making. Anyway this song is great. Starts out sounding like what it feels like to be trapped in a pokie and ends up like you're trapped in a databent Banjo Kazooie cartridge.

Kick It - Peaches & Iggy Pop: The first time I ever heard this song, and the first time I ever heard of Peaches or Iggy Pop was on the soundtrack to Midnight Club 3 so I didn't really know what the fuck was going on. I still don't really. I love that this is supposed to be like a dangerous sexy song but the whole time Iggy Pop is just rebuffing her advances and bullying her. Then she's like 'go to berlin' and then the song ends. Still not sure what this one's about still!

If You Know You Know - Pusha T: GOD this song is good, I've been listening to it on repeat. What I love about Pusha T is where a lot of other rappers talk sort of frivolously about drug dealing and everything, he often feels like he's putting his hand on your shoulder and looking you straight in the eyes saying 'I am not fucking around. If you need drugs of any calibre or kind I can get them for you in massive quantities.' The impish way he's saying 'if you know you know', absolutely kills me, like he's a cartoon man winking at me while hiding drugs inside a tennis ball.

Hacker - Death Grips: I think I put this on my playlist last month but I'm still on it so. My new favourite part of this song is when he says "The table's flipped now we got all the coconuts bitch / Burmese babies under each arm / Screaming beautiful songs".

Cavity - Hundred Waters: Hundred Waters feel like a really underrated band to me, I've been listening to their last two album a lot this month and they're just stunning. The long build up towards the end before the two note melody comes back and kills me? What a moment.

Music For The Long Emergency - Polica: I didn't love this album when it came out but I've been listening to it more and more and it's really growing on me. I think I put this song on a playlist a month or two ago so I won't write more but let me say this: Polica rules.

On The Grid - Lime: tfw you turn the knob and you do a good job and you wind up on the grid :/

Elephants - Them Crooked Vultures: I feel like Them Crooked Vultures gets forgotten when people talk about Queens Of The Stone Age albums. People bring up Desert Sessions and Kyuss but somehow forget that this giant album happened. Anyway this is far and away the best song on it because it just keeps on giving and giving. It's just a huge jam about riding an elephant and having cool hair(?).

Particle - Hundred Waters: This song feels like it could be the EDM hit of the summer if it was structured slightly differently, but instead it's the biggest brain pop song I've heard in a long time. I love how much power the bass has in this, it really feels impactful when it comes and goes. The vocal performance is obviously incredible as always but I really love the distorted vocal line that sort of tears itself apart now and then, against how clean everything else in this song sounds it really makes it.

Me Or Us - Young Thug: Thinking hard about when Young Thug sampled First Day Of My Life by Bright Eyes and made it into a really really good song.

Because I Love You - Montaigne: God this song is good. All the time the lyric 'I ate a salad today, I ate one yesterday too' pops into my head and makes me laugh. She tweeted about this song a couple of days ago and it really made me laugh: "My ex-boyfriend & I once watched BBC Sherlock & during the ep he paused & basically soliloquised about how he’s a tortured genius just like Sherlock & I’m his Watson in as condescending a way as you’re probably imagining then poured a shot of whiskey & now you know the story"​

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