#the foundations

[zzzzzestforlife]

20230911 - 7:02am [🌼]

trying to psych myself up for work today/this week by remembering how far i've come and suddenly thought of a friend from my internship. he was a year ahead of me, went to a more competitive academic high school than me, and had been coding since childhood unlike me.

i ended up confiding in him about feeling so behind and what he said stuck with me ever since. (it was very simply put and maybe that's why i believed it.) he said, "we'll be taking the same degree, and in the end, we'll be working at the same job, so don't worry."

today, i'm a full-stack software engineer, promoted twice in two years WHILE STILL IN SCHOOL. i can do this. don't worry.

side note: this friend has great music taste and we used to take turns blasting playlists at the lab we worked at. build me up buttercup is one of the songs he introduced me to.

#software engineering #software engineer #codeblr #progblr #comp sci #monday motivation #inspirational #study inspiration #studyspo #hustle #don't worry #i got this #zesty's life #workblr #studyblr #internship #lab #coding #programming #she codes #high school #online diary #i can do this #music #music recs #the foundations #coding soundtrack #friends like this are the reason i stay in this field #light academia #light acadamia aesthetic

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #20: 1969

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: The Archies, The 5th Dimension, The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, Sly and the Family Stone (x2), Tommy Roe, Tom Jones, The Foundations, Tommy James and the Shondells. End description]

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And now we reach the end of the 1960s. In the songs listed, we can see the psychedelic label applying to several genres, such as psychedelic pop and psychedelic soul. From psychedelic soul, we can easily see how disco will start to solidify in the coming years, but that genre will also derive from a wide variety of other subgenres. We'll get to that eventually.

The addition of Sugar Sugar also gives me a chance to talk about bubblegum music (or bubblegum pop, in this case). The term is both used to describe the genre from both the musical and the business side of its formation (I suppose it's similar to the modern use of "industry plant"), but I'll focus on the former. Essentially, bubblegum was used to classify music that was sounded sweet and chipper, but didn't appear to have the artistic integrity of other styles. The bubblegum pop of the late 60's and early 70's took a lot of influence from garage rock, but it was derided for not having that genre's sense of edge or scrappiness. This isn't my opinion, I'm just stating the origins of the term and how it was talked about at the time.

The shift from the 60's to the 70's is going to be a bit more apparent than the transitional stage between other decades. And here, we can see the foundations (hah.) of sounds that will come to define the following decade.

And with that, thank you for joining me through the 1960s. I'll see you all in the 70's.

#billboard music #billboard poll #tumblr poll #1960s #60s music #1969 #the archies #the 5th dimension #the temptations #the rolling stones #sly and the family stone #tommy roe #tom jones #the foundations #tommy james and the shondells

[myimaginaryradio]

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

#the foundations #build me up buttercup #classic rock #60s #friday mood #Youtube

[speed-demon-doodler]

Team super good people that would never do anything bad in their life (+Astarion)

Why Buttercup you might ask?

The Foundations - Build me up buttercup

Hippo campus - Buttercup

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Old party mentions 1

Old party mentions 2

#baldur's gate 3 #bdg3 #orion #tav #wyll #karlach #astarion #buttercup #the foundations #hippo campus #build me up buttercup #bg3

[avlly]

why do you build me upppp buttercup baby jus tto let me doownn

#build me up buttercup #the foundations #( ଘ music. — 🎧 )

[bryan-damage]

The Foundations

"Solomon Grundy"

Digging the Foundations, 1969

#the foundations #psychedelic rock #folk rock #60s music #60s rock #solomon grundy #Youtube

[adsin1960smusicmagazines]

The Foundations (1969)

#the foundations #1969 #pye records #1960s #1960s Advertising #1960s music #magazine ad #music ad #advertising #music magazine #vintage #Vintage Magazine Ad #vintage music ad #sixties

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[xshinina]

*Married life playing in the background

This idea was probably funnier in my head

#sansmaeda #sansmaeda wedding #undertale #danganronpa #nagito komaeda #sans undertale #meme post #I swear there's a reason why not everyone attended in nagito's side #no one wanted to go in the first place #sdr2 #fanart #so for the record: #Ibuki DID attend but could't stay put for 5 minutes so she got bored and left #Teruteru is still pretty angry and bitter at Nagito #Hiyoko couldn't care less and thought it was gross #Akane saw no reason to go since her main source of food wouldn't go (Teruteru) #And spoiler alert but Chiaki's fucking dead lmao #she would've gone tho #probably #Also pretend nagito's using really good foundation on his hand cuz I totally forgot about his metal arm

[lokis-bitter-ghost]

do you guys know about scp 426 bc i swear it is my favorite thing on planet earth

like is that not so funny

#scp #scp foundation #scp 426 #paranoia #unreality

[mathraptor]

Time to share this freak here.

Yup, this guy's made the rounds a few times on other sites, now he lives here.

#art #horror #ink #traditional art #illustration #cryptid #fan art #monster #scp fandom #scp fanart #scp 173 #scp foundation

[bigfoursandotherlists]

1970 tier C

#the foundations #blues image #the outsiders #earl grant #the hondells #billy stewart

[hazelsheartsworn]

Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations 🤝 Self Esteem by The Offspring

#the offspring #self esteem #build me up buttercup #the foundations

[myimaginaryradio]

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations - 1969

#the foundations #build me up buttercup #classic rock #60s #ups and downs #Youtube

[communistkenobi]

whenever right wing people talk about “parental rights” they are talking about property rights. they are arguing for further political and legal enshrinement of their children as their literal actual property

#I also wonder if this is like a middle class expression of a desire to shore up other property rights eg homeownership #like homeownership is a foundation base for the nuclear family. property rights allow you to own the resource #that produces the family and allows it to be ‘private’ #so like children are another frontier of this property relationship #anyway. bad time to be a trans person lol #& all the actual legitimate issues w/ parental rights ie indigenous genocide forced sterilisation mass incarceration the foster system etc #are not even remotely concerns for these people because well. they’re fash lol

[brightgoat]

jojo's bizarre analog adventure

#analog horror #jjba #horror #face horror #jojos bizarre adventure #jojo's bizarre adventure #stands #speedwagon foundation #jjba au #analog horror au #creepy #art #arrt #fanart #jjba horror au #unreality #tw unreality