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kurtcobainsgreencardigan · 8 months

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hey Sirius, I need David Bowie recs

DO YOU REALLY!?!?!??!?!?! YOU CAN'T JOKE ABOUT DAVID BOWIE!! OMG OMG OMG okay SO

Let's start with an anecdote (not so much an anecdote as it is a random story), it all started when I was about 9 years old, picture me, a little clueless girl, all she did was listen to Blank Space and Hey Everybody! (by 5sos obvs) and read Percy Jackson at recess instead of playing tag with the other kids. One day, she was watching what was probably Sam & Cat on Hulu when an annoying ad break came on, she was tempted to mute the TV as her dad usually did, but a second before she could hit the button to mute the perfume ad, something magical happened, an otherworldly sound filled her ears, cosmic jive invaded her mind! She was enchanted! That moment she realized she had never heard music in her life, not really, and from that day on, she had a different perception of life. There was an issue though, perhaps the most devasting thing, is she had no idea what song she just listened to. So she lived in despair, wondering what could've been of her life if only she'd known the song that shifter her entire world, walking around with a missing piece. Until one day, when she was 13, after years of getting into the rock scene, and memorizing the pages of a contemporary music book her English teacher had (i miss that man), once she had learnt about the existence of a "man" called David Bowie, did she make the decision to finally listen to him. Then, and only then did she come together like a puzzle as she realized that that song Starman, was the one to awaken the music snob within her all those years ago. Ever since, she has grown to be an insufferable pretentious girl and it's all thanks to David Bowie.

Sorry I got a bit (A LOT) carried away there, but you have to realize that one does not simply ask me about David Bowie and expect me to be normal about it, as for recommendations (the only thing you really asked of me), I obviously like Starman, Moonage Daydream, and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (these are from my favorite album in the whole wide world and that last one makes me cry) but I have to warn you they're very weird sounding, so maybe listen to Let's Dance and Rebel Rebel maybe?? Those are also weird sounding, they are all weird sounding. So I guess these??

Starman

Moonage Daydream

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Let's Dance

Rebel Rebel

#im sorry!!!!#i tend to ramble!!!!!

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casadegatos · 1 year

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A music documentary is usually a lot of talking heads, music clips of “greatest hits” and “deep cuts” along with maybe some concert footage, fan reactions, home movies, etc. Perhaps there are some creative editing choices, or non-linear storytelling. But for the most part, music docs are pretty same-y from one to another. And there’s nothing wrong with that, I have enjoyed probably hundreds of such documentaries. I learned stuff I never knew, heard songs I hadn’t heard in decades sometimes, and sometimes gained a greater appreciation for an artist or genre I didn’t have before.

I went into Moonage Daydream expecting a music documentary, but what I got was something totally different. A basic timeline is followed, but weaving in and out of it recursively are tangents that get at the heart of what the creative process can be for an artist. Will you learn some things about David Bowie’s career and music? Yes. But you will also learn about how he saw himself as part of his art, how music, writing, painting, really all creative pursuits were inevitable for him.

Deliberately chosen songs thematically connect each section of the story. No talking heads, no bandmate recollections, no fan remembrances. Just David Bowie’s own words from interviews conducted throughout his career. He talks about what effect his spirituality had on him and his work, how emotions were or were not (variously) important to him while creating, how he relates to his own art, and how all of these things and more have changed and evolved throughout his life. You’ll hear him as a young man saying some things that he will directly contradict when he is older, but he doesn’t dismiss his more jejune observations from his youth. We are supremely lucky that he was an introspective and thorough thinker about his career and creative process. He puts his earlier commentary into perspective multiple times and we can hear how he evolved and changed his views on many aspects of his art and how he portrayed himself.

Visually, the filmmaker made some inspired creative choices. In choosing many clips of Bowie walking and showing the back of his head, the viewer is forced into his POV during some of the most candid and emotional admissions from him. The shift in time denoted by the Moon and Milky Way, accompanied by bright recoloring of some of the video footage used made it possible to see the way time was passing for Bowie and his career, and how it is passing the same way for us.

I really appreciated the way Brett Morgen avoided framing anything in a cliched way, the way many other documentaries and books about Bowie have done (the “chameleon”, etc). Those things are acknowledged through the historical footage of interviews where people said those things to him, but at no point does the film itself indulge in these cliches. As a lifelong Bowie fan, this is the documentary I have been waiting for, the one that speaks to what he really means as an artist to many of us who connected with his art throughout his career. At no point does the filmmaker judge any of Bowie’s work, he does that himself, but it doesn’t make you feel wrong for enjoying what might be considered his less than good output (what this is varies from person to person. For me, it’s Never Let Me Down). You are invited to continue to appreciate all of his art as you always have but with a richer understanding of what he saw in it himself.

I would recommend this for people who aren’t necessarily Bowie fans, people who are just casual fans, but also for people who are curious about how artists think and work. It’s more than a music documentary, it is a document of art.

#david bowie #moonage daydream #documentary #movie review #review #music documentary #bowie #music #this movie really touched me in a deep way about art #thinking about how and why one creates #the creative impulse so many of us have #how does it all connect?#absolutely fascinating film #brett morgen

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aoarcturus · 1 year

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15 question 15 tags

thanks for the tag @tempusfugitandallthatblog :))

Nickname: lee :)

Height: like 5”8 I think

Last thing I googled: postage stamps lol

Song stuck in my head currently: I’ve had kill bill by sza play on repeat in my head this whole day

# of followers: I just hit 200 followers :) crazyyy

Amount of sleep: honestly atm I’m getting a decent amount of sleep

Dream job: uhm well smth animation/character design based

Wearing: baggy black jeans and a green sweater

Movie/book that summarises you: I’ve actually not put much thought into that so no clue honestly

Favourite song currently: ahh this is difficult, there’s so much to chose from help, but one of my all time favs is moonage daydream (David Bowie) and I’m obsessed with the gold (phoebe bridgers) atm

Aesthetic: looking like a grunge grandpa ???? Yeah dunno, makes sense to me

Favourite authors: I read way too little to have a favourite author, should prob change that

Random fact: I love wrapping presents

Tagging: uhm I have no clue who to tag… soo anybody who wants to ig:))

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parkerbombshell · 1 year

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Rules Free Radio Nov 29

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm EST Rules Free Radio With Steve Caplan bombshellradio.com On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan, we’ll check out new music from The Penetrators, Jim Basnight, Uni Boys, Field School, and a just-released live album from 1969 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band Archers of Loaf have a new album for the first time in more than 20 years. Boston’s Karate has a new collection of some of their 90s music, singer-songwriter Karoleena, guitarist Hedvig Mollestad, new Jazz and Funk from Jazz Is Dead, Nils Landgren Funk Unit, and New Freedom Sound. We’ll hear orchestral performances from the soundtrack to the new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream and one by composer Steve Reich. In the not-so-new category, we’ll hear Frank Zappa, Material Issue, Queen, Deerhunter, In Deed, and the Midnight Callers. We’ll start by paying tribute to someone we just lost. His name is Wilko Johnson, and if the name isn’t familiar, I can pretty much guarantee that you know music by artists he influenced. He’s perhaps most associated with a British pub rock group from the 70s, Dr. Feelgood. They did a lot of covers of American Blues and R&B, kind of like groups like The Stones and The Pretty Things did about a decade before. Wilko Johnson played with folks like Ian Dury and had he had a prolific solo career. Guitarists were inspired and admired his unique style and showmanship. So if he’s new to you, he was a great rocker! All this and more on Tuesday afternoon starting at 2 on Bombshellradio.com! Wilko Johnson - Barbed Wire Blues Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Ice On The Motorway The Solid Senders - All Aboard Dr. Feelgood - Going Back Home - Stupidity (1976) Dr. Feelgood - Checkin' Up On My Baby Dr. Feelgood - All My Love Wilko Johnson - Slamming Wilko Johnson - Marijuana Roy Loney and the Longshots - Move It, Baby Toiling Midgets - She's Fun Material Issue - Diane Field School - Jennifer Valentine Jim Basnight - Leave The Past Behind The Penetrators - Time is Mine Tape Toy - The One Who Got Away Archers of Loaf - In the Surface Noise The Midnight Callers - State Of Me In Deed - Don't Need, Don't Care Uni Boys - Long Time No See - Atomic Tide - Phonebox Queen - Now I'm Here Creem Circus - Automatic Style Marc Bolan & T. Rex - Get It On Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Hungry Freaks, Daddy Deerhunter - Basement Scene Craig Leon - The Respondent In Dispute Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - All Flights Cancelled Jimi Hendrix Experience - I Don't Live Today Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Don't Stop (live) New Freedom Sound - Fourth Freedom Damian O'Neill - La Tengo Karate - Small Fires Karolina - All Rivers Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - The Light Garrett Saracho, Adrian Younge, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad - The Gardens Steve Reich/Los Angeles Philharmonic - I. Sixteenths Read the full article

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alienbeamed · 3 years

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GENERAL

name: Moonbeam Josie Noble

alias(es): Moon, Mooney, Moonbee, Moonbaby, and a variety of other nicknames. Writes under the pseudonym Stella Luna (only those closest to her know this is her)

gender: cis-female

age: 25, varies

date of birth: July 9th

place of birth: Sandpoint, Idaho

hometown: Sandpoint, Idaho

spoken languages: English

sexual preference: pansexual

occupation: author, tiktoker, youtuber

APPEARANCE

eye color: green

hair color: dark brown

height: 4 feet, 11 inches

scars: just a few from childhood accidents and adult tumbles

over weight: no

under weight: nah

FAVOURITE

color: neon green

hair color: she’s not picky at all

eye color: probably brown .

song: moonage daydream - david bowie or with a little help from my friends - the beatles

movie: my favorite martian

tv show: x-files

food: chocolate in any form

drink: she’s a big fan of kinky vodka in cranberry juice

book: The Taking - Dean Koontz

HAVE THEY

passed university: no. she never wanted to go to college.

had sex: plenty

had sex in public: more than once

gotten pregnant: nope

kissed a boy: many

kissed a girl: lots of them

gotten tattoos: she has a number of tattoos. a lot of tattoos. a lot of little ones scattered around.

gotten piercings: ear piercings.

been in love: nah.

stayed up for more than 24 hours: more than she’d like to admit

ARE THEY

a virgin: far from it

a cuddler: very much so

a kisser: yes. she loves kisses. please kiss her.

scared easily: not really. it depends on where her head’s at.

jealous easily: nah. she’s all about free love. she trusts her partner.

trustworthy: yep! she’s very loyal.

dominant: not really

submissive: most of the time

in love: depends on the verse

single: depends on the verse

RANDOM QUESTIONS (tw for self harm/suicide mention)

have they harmed themselves: not on purpose

thought of suicide: no

attempted suicide: nope

wanted to kill someone: a few times

have/had a job: she worked at her parents dispensary/head shop

have any fears: being alone in the world, claustrophobic

FAMILY

sibling(s): star (sister, alive, oldest, 33), atlas (brother, alive, middlechild, 30)

parent(s): daisy noble (a), rowan noble (a)

children: none at the moment

pets: she’s been thinking about getting a cat, but has not pulled the trigger on it

tagged by: @obscuriosity ( thank you !!! ) tagging: @footagecaught , @liftedrelics ( jax ! ) , @maleficarisms ( bryce ! ) , @graceimbrued , @overlooksouls ( katherine ! ) , @nightstalk , @tornsavior , @griim , @ anyone !

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sulfurousdreamscapes · 4 years

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The following captions were found in photographer Tushar Zaveri's final collection of pictures: Images of Ghost Buildings.

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6. The Wollcroft Road Branch of the Bank of Baroda, known to have disappeared after a New Year's Eve party organised by an enthusiastic manager.

Despite everyone pleading him not to sing, one banker is known to have participated in the karaoke to feel more confident and outgoing. He belted out David Bowie's Moonage Daydream, and that's the when the building phased out.

It is understood that standing in the same spot at midnight on a New Year's Eve will cause you to hear a terrible Bowie cover.

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13. A wood furniture shop that always smelled of sawdust and sweat. One of the underpaid, disgruntled carpenters, tried to create a replica of Pinocchio with the full expectation of it coming alive.

He had memorised 28 situations that could occur with the doll, and in each one, the doll's nose would get longer and longer.

Around the time the shop disappeared, the carpenter was assailed by dreams that once the doll is made, it would be the carpenter himself who would have to suffer, with longer fingers, eyes, brows, ears, and so on.

It is unclear if the doll wad ever made.

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19. This one is hard to see, but it's actually a library erected by a woman who wad certain that in another life, she had been a minotaur. The library itself was named Grand Minos, and it resembled a giant labyrinth lined with books.

After the woman died, her daughter became the chief librarian. As she held no affiliation with the myth of the minotairs, she scarcely understood the point of the building. She understood the patrons even less.

The library became a ghost around the same time that an unpublished book was added to the collection by an angry patron. If was the autobiography of a minotaur living the life of a librarian.

In the picture, you can see the spines of the books, barely appearing at all.

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23. This curious skyscraper was shaped in the form of the ampersand. The committee that approved its construction was receptive to the architect's vision of it being a symbol of hope in a city that seemed to suck it out of its people.

Construction wad stalled when one of the committee members, who had great lobbying power, demanded that the building be constructed in the shape of a semicolon.

He had been inspired by something he'd seen on hos daughter's wrist, that his secretary had told him the meaning of. He never deduced that he was much of the reason that the semicolon on his daughter's wrist existed in the first place.

The ampersand was never finished.

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30. My home. I lived here as a child. I have since lived in many other places, sometimes for even longer than when I lived at home. Nevertheless, this is and will always be "home" to.me. Home, withpit an article to give it definition. Home, where even feelings are allowed not to matter.

#spilled prose #spilled ink #writeblr #short fiction #daily writing #writers of tumblr #my writing #creative writing #writers #writing #flash fiction #fiction #weird fiction #flash fic

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bowietracks · 6 years

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The Jean Genie had been Bowie’s eighteenth UK single, coming out some six months ahead of the album – indeed, the song was recorded before the rest of the album in the two Aladdin Sane sessions in late December (New York) / early January 1973 (London). Although the recording was slightly remixed from the single version for the album. And – of course – like all of Bowie’s songs for Aladdin Sane, it received a parenthesis indicating where it conceived – in this case, both Detroit and New York, on the road and in the studio. On the album, it comes as the penultimate track, after the trip down memory lane of The Prettiest Star (Bowie’s rerecording of a 1970 single) and Let’s Spend The Night Together (Bowie’s cover of the classic Rolling Stones hit from 1967). Of the two named characters on the album, Aladdin Sane of course takes centre stage. Sane is on the cover, as Steve Pafford writes: ‘Bowie’s most famous photographic image bar none. Although the red and blue thunderbolt lensman Brian Duffy painted on David’s face is one of his most recognisable and most copied looks, he never actually wore it on stage. For the Aladdin artwork, the lightning insignia was intended to be a stark visual signifier of the character’s schizoid mind within. However, the origin of the idea was far more prosaic. In the Mick Rock book, Moonage Daydream, Bowie wrote: “The flash was taken from the High Voltage sign that was stuck on any box containing dangerous amounts of electricity”’ (Steve Pafford). Aladdin Sane as a character, then, is a divisive, dangerous, manipulative incarnation, looking forward more to the Thin White Duke. While the Jean Genie is a good time gal, impulsive, sexual, vital. Is this a younger Sane? Come to the city… having fun with sex, drugs and rock n roll? Not yet cynical? Without track lines? Not fallen into paranoia and madness? Not yet gone too far? In this way, the context of its placement on the album, with the flashbacks to The Prettiest Star and Let’s Spend The Night Together, is essential. The song becomes a flashback itself, a screening of the past, of loss. The Jean Genie is dead. Long live Aladdin Sane.

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Written by David Bowie. Recorded 6 October 1972. Released 13 April 1973. Available on Aladdin Sane (1973).

#The Jean Genie (Detroit and New York)#david bowie

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams Review: David Bowie's Memoirs Sparkle

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David Bowie is presented as a very human superhero alien in a cinematic graphic novel.

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BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams begins with a forward by Neil Gaiman called "If We Can Sparkle He May Land Tonight." It recounts the author's first contact with the third kind. David Bowie's songs were stories, he remembers, like the Gilbert and Sullivan ditties Gaiman preferred over rock and roll in his youth. He bonded with the rock star over the science fiction undercurrent in the music and image, and glorified him in his mind. Among his favorite memories is trekking to Victoria Station where the Thin White Duke arrived by special train before the 1975 Isolar Tour. Gaiman remembers the faux Bowies at the station, and the Station to Station albums scattered about to distract Bowie fans. The rest of the world was distracted by a blurred photograph which made it look like Bowie was giving a Nazi salute when it was enhanced. Such was the homo superior superpower of Bowie's myth.

Insight Comics' graphic novel is presented as a film directed by Mike Allred (Madman, Silver Surfer), who is also credited as co-screenwriter with Steve Horton (Satellite Falling). The illustrations by Mike and Laura Allred (Madman, iZombie) get her the credit as Technicolor cinematographer and the cinematic theme helps center the reading experience and nods to Bowie's acting exposure. The book points out Bowie trained in mime and appeared in a few films before his career took off like Major Tom in a tin can. He also had to turn down an appearance, Son of Dracula, where he would have played Harry Nilsson's son to Ringo Starr's Merlin, due to studio commitments. BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams opens at the Hamersmith Odeon on July 3, 1973, when Bowie said goodnight to his Ziggy Stardust persona, but the film crossfades to 1962 just before the actual announcement is made.

At the start, Bowie is presented as a tireless and curious artist, a veteran of bands The Konrads, The Mannish Boys and The King Bees, hanging with young London musicians who would make up the Small Faces and ultimately T Rex. BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams doubles as Bowie's memoir told against the rise and fall of his Ziggy Stardust persona, who comes across as a character conjured by the singer from the sky to bring his music to new life. Bowie is a superhero whose extraterrestrial exploits are made from the madness which runs in his family and the alchemy of the changing styles of rock and roll. His ears gobble up Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Pink Floyd, and his non-matching eyes catch the fiery fingers of Eric Clapton at night at the clubs. Forced to change his name to the strong sounding Bowie because David Jones is already singing for the Monkees, his first album debuts the same day as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but doesn't do quite as well.

read more: Why Mick Ronson is Essential to David Bowie's Legacy

Taking inspiration from Stanley Kubrick's science fiction masterwork 2001: A Space Odyssey and Roger Vadim's camp classic Barbarella, Bowie stars in the promotional film Love You Til Tuesday, which also features Hermione Farthingale, the girl with the mousy hair, in a segment. He meets Tony Visconti, the Brooklyn-born instrumentalist who would be a lifelong collaborator. The pair bond artistically over a viewing of Roman Polanski's film Knife in the Water. Bowie finds his Jeff Beck in Mick Ronson. The first glam rock performance happens on Feb. 22, 1970, when David Bowie appears as Spaceman, Vicsonti is Hypeman, Ronson is Gangster Man and John Cambridge is Cowboy Man in the band The Hype at the Roundhouse in London. Nobody applauds when the band leaves the stage, but Marc Bolan eats it up.

read more: Exploring David Bowie's Sci-Fi Fascination

If you're a rock fan, you know all the characters in the book. Bowie's career traversed the entire musical world in the short time it took for Ziggy Stardust to fall to earth. As a young artist, Bowie shops at the same stores as Freddy Mercury, shares stages with Peter Frampton and goodnaturedly ribs Marc Bolan, who will co-opt Tony Visconti, over tea. As he gains prominence he takes tea with Elton John, who Visconti passed on as a producer. There are some informational nuggets and gossip in the mix. The story throws in incidental tidbits like Bowie staying at the Warwick, same hotel the Beatles stayed at when they played Shea Stadium, when he was in New York to sign with RCA. Then adds details like how Iggy Pop got clean at the Warwick or how Bowie was taken straight to an Elvis Presley concert after one of his arrivals in the United States.

read more: The Man Who Fell to Earth: The Myopic Wonder of David Bowie's Earth Oddity

Prepare yourself before reading. "Roll up your sleeves and show us your arms," as a censored bit of promotion for The Man Who Sold The World advised. You might want a playlist of Bowie songs for backing music or for easy reference. Bowie's early liftoff was propelled by Barbra Streisand's cover of "Life on Mars" and Peter Noone of Herman's Hermit's rendition of "Oh You Pretty Things." The illustrations are fantastic, conjuring the look of classic iconography as well as rock stardom. Many individual drawings could be comic book covers, others album posters. The biography is colorful and cosmic, following Bowie's alter egos against the backdrop of iconic cultural influences like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Clockwork Orange, The Twilight Zone, even the Last Supper.

read more: David Bowie Was No Chameleon: A Sound and Vision Lookback

The novel illustrates Bowie's love of happy accidents like a phone ringing through a vocal track and a botched take which can be saved with the right 12 string guitar, in the formation of his sound. Bowie defied classification, mixing mime with psychedelic music, forming an image through the parts he plays and mixing the surreal with motion picture futurism. Bowie’s artistic and commercial trajectory is paralleled by the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. The Spiders from Mars disintegrates as Bowie wrestles with his alter ego. The internal conflict changes the world. The final separation between the character and the artist is sad, but necessary. He's saved the world, given us the Starman savior, grounded Major Tom and goes off for a few drinks, with ice.

BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams is a gift for David Bowie fans. It hit stands on Jan. 7, Bowie's 73rd birthday.

Culture Editor Tony Sokol cut his teeth on the wire services and also wrote and produced New York City's Vampyr Theatre and the rock opera AssassiNation: We Killed JFK. Read more of his work here or find him on Twitter @tsokol.

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enthusiastic-sarcastic · 5 years

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Tag game

Rule: tag 10 followers you want to know better

(my first tag game whoop)

I was tagged by: @therachelgreenn thanks lovely!! 😊

Name: Alexis but I prefer Lexi because Alexis sounds too formal to me? Idk why

Star sign: Aquarius

Height: 5 feet and 6 inches (around 167.64 cm?)

Middle name: Marie (almost all of my female family members have the same middle name so it’s not very exciting)

Put your music on shuffle. What are the first 4 songs to pop up?

Why Do You Feel So Down by Declan McKenna

Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ by The Velvet Undergound

505 by Arctic Monkeys

Ace in The Hole by Saint Motel

Grab the closest book to you and turn to page 23. What’s line 17?

“A little later on in the dinner, Mr. Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity, and intimidated—in the usual hypothetical case of the Church being “thrown open”—what kind of sermon he would have given them.”

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (we’ve started reading this for AP Literature and i kind of want to throw myself out of a window rip)

Ever had a poem or song written about you?

Lmao probably not but I’ve definitely written poems about people back when I was a cringey little middle schooler (ah the joys of being 13)

When was the last time you played air guitar?

Last night, while procrastinating my anatomy homework by dancing around my room, singing to Moonage Daydream by the iconic David Bowie (rip)

Who is your celebrity crush?

Lol the list is long (here goes nothing):

Fionn Whitehead, Tom Holland, Timotheè Chalamet, Asa Butterfield, Alex Lawther, Taron Egerton, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, etc. (So mostly just soft curly haired British boys hahah)

What’s a sound you hate, and another one you love?

I hate it when some people put on that weird seductive voice when attempting to flirt...it’s just super awkward and makes me uncomfortable (my best friend randomly switches into this voice just to mess with me and it’s torturous) Also when people talk with food in their mouths or chew super obnoxiously it grosses me out.

I love the sound of rain/the ocean/waterfalls. I also love the sound of bubble wrap it’s very satisfying and for some reason the sound that a pile of paper makes when you stack it into place is also very satisfying to me.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Sort of? I’m not necessarily opposed to the idea of believing I just need proof and I haven’t really had any crazy experiences yet

How about aliens?

Hmm maybe?

Do you drive?

Yep. I’m not necessarily terrible at it but it still scares at times. The area that I live around is known notoriously for it’s constant hectic traffic so I usually prefer getting my twin sister or friends to drive if the situation allows for it. Driving to school is a breeze though.

If so have you ever crashed?

Well no, I don’t think so? I kind of slightly grazed a sign at Panera a few weeks ago when I was backing out of their stupidly designed parking lot and it created the tiniest scratch on the back of my car but I’m not sure if that counts.

What was the last book you’ve read?

Well, for school, I read the play, “A Streetcar Named Desire” which I really enjoyed. On my own personal time, I think the last thing that I read was this book called “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch.

What was the last movie you saw?

I just recently rewatched The Grand Budapest Hotel which is both visually stunning and hilarious! I recommend watching it if you’re a fan of Wes Anderson movies!

Do you have any obsessions?

Yep. Again, the list is kind of long:

Bandersnatch, the MCU, Dunkirk, The Office, Parks and Rec, Friends, Brooklyn 99, Peaky Blinders, Just any and all movies generally (I’m a huge “film nerd”), etc.

Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?

Lmao yeah. I’m trying to work on this with my therapist but I have huge trust issues due to friends kind of betraying/backstabbing me on multiple different occasions in the past. I kind of subconsciously blame myself for all of it even though that’s not necessarily the case.

In a relationship?

Nopeee. I’m incredibly socially awkward/anxious, and my standards have been set too high by celebrities (not gonna lie) plus most of the guys that I’m around are super immature, which I can’t stand. Also, I don’t think I’m very attractive hahah ripp.

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amtlsp · 6 years

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Miles Kane: the 10 records that changed my life

2018-08-29 By Matt Frost

Before we move on to the top 10 records that changed his life, we just pop one more album-related question to Miles and ask him what gear he utilised to get such an array of fantastic tones. A refreshingly simplistic approach was absolutely key...“It was all old gear - loads of mad, tiny little amps and a Fender Princeton and a Fender Champ, both from the ‘70s. Then, on a lot of it, I was just using a Les Paul Junior with P-90 pickups. That’s about it.”

1. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

“The first album I got into as a kid would be (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and that was around the time, I think, when my mum got me the video one Christmas of that Maine Road gig, when Liam’s got the Umbro tracksuit top on.

“That was the first album that really blew my mind and stylistically it was really turning me on. I think it massively impacted my writing, even to this day.

“My favourite song on that record is called Hey Now! It’s not a song that people mention often but I think that’s a fantastic tune, man.”

2. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

“I’ll go for Bowie, Ziggy Stardust. Again, that was as a kid, growing up. My mum's a big music fan - she likes Motown soul and loads of stuff and she would have played this to me originally.

“Me and my mate really got into this album and the song Soul Love reminds of me of being at school - you know when songs sort of give you a feeling of a path to the past or whatever? That song Soul Love makes me think of being that age at school and I love it. I definitely remember listening to the album and thinking, you know, ‘God this is weird!’ but maybe listening to it when I was younger made me feel weird because the sounds were so different to what I was used to… but in a great way and a sort of intriguing way that makes you want to get more into that kind of stuff.

“It’s influenced me massively. I mean, lyrically, no-one can touch it and Moonage [Daydream] is just like the best song on there. He was such a clever guy. I love it when he goes with the punk vibe on Hang On to Yourself. That’s very sort of me, that tune. I’d love to do a cover of that, actually!”

3. The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

“A Hard Day’s Night is my favourite Beatles album. Obviously, I love every Beatles record but this has always stuck with me and it’s been my favourite one for a long time. I think that’s because it’s just so simple and every tune is sort of two-and-a-half minutes and they're all little pop songs.

“I think my favourite tune on that is Things We Said Today. I can’t picture the where and when and what I was doing when I first heard it but it would have been at my Mum’s house.”

4. Neil Young - On the Beach (1974)

“This is not in order, but my most recent favourite album that I’ve got into is On the Beach by Neil Young. I remember, years ago, I tried to get into Neil Young, but I don’t know what it was.

“I liked it but I just couldn’t really get into it, but then I watched a documentary about six months ago called Don’t Be Denied. It was about an hour long,- I saw it on YouTube and it blew me away. When he’s talking about each album, he’s such the real deal and he was talking about that On The Beach album and they played a couple of snippets off it and I was like, ‘Wow, this is eight-track; they sound mega!’

“It came after his first big success [Harvest, 1972] and he just went straight in to make this record really fast and, for me, it’s just got everything. I love it all. I love the song Motion Pictures and the song On The Beach and then you’ve got Revolution Blues. Yeah, that’s been blowing my mind lately, that. There’s a couple of upbeat songs there, but most of it’s all pretty mid-tempo and I don’t usually sort of go for that.”

5. The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)

“This definitely sort of goes hand in hand with the Oasis one. Again, being that age, growing up, I can remember when that first came out. It’s got The Drugs Don’t Work, Lucky Man, all the classics.

“As a kid, I loved The Drugs Don’t Work. The emotion on that struck a chord with me, for sure. When you're a kid, you're sort of figuring out what makes you tick, listening to what’s out at the time and realising what kind of music you like. When I heard that, I was definitely like, ‘Wow! That's my music.’”

6. The Coral - The Coral (2002)

“Okay, I'm going to go with The Coral's first album. Their new album's really cool as well, by the way. My cousins are James [Skelly] the singer and Ian [Skelly] the drummer, so they turned me on to a lot of music.

“I think I went to a gig of theirs just before they released that first record and James was spitting and stomping round the stage - I'd never seen anything like it really and I was definitely like, ‘Yeah, I want to do this as well!’

“That record's got just incredible tunes on it and, from start to finish, it's a solid, solid album. I love the song Skeleton Key and I Remember When and Goodbye and Dreaming Of You… it's just that solid! It's a great summer album. I listened to that a lot and I always have.”

7. John Lennon - Imagine (1971)

“It would have to be a Lennon record but it’s hard to choose between Plastic Ono [Band, 1970] and Imagine.

“I have said this a lot, but a thing that changed my life was when I saw... John Lennon's ghost... no, I'm joking! It was when I saw the making of the Imagine album film [Gimme Some Truth] and it was when he was singing the song Gimme Some Truth. He just has that real venom with the politics. It's an angry song, and he's really raw with his feelings when you see him doing that live take.

“The key of the song is probably too high, so it sort of rips his vocal. It’s a bit like my song Silverscreen on the new album where the key is slightly high so you've got to fucking scream it! He just rips it a bit but it sounds great and it sounds cool.

“When I first saw him doing that live take, it was definitely like, ‘Oh my God, this is blowing my mind!’ You can see he was totally in the moment.”

8. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (2008)

“I remember that came out around the time we were doing the first Puppets album and it reminds me of that time. All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You) is a great tune, and then it's also got Echoes Round The Sun on it.

“I was in my early 20s and I remember loving them tunes. It was before I'd met Paul as well. I'd say that album really inspired me. Stylistically, there's so much going on.

“I met Paul properly when we were both doing this radio thing one Christmas. I'd just done my first album Colour Of The Trap (2011) and he was there and he came over to me and he had this coffee table book on ‘60s fashion and there was this French singer in it called Jacques Dutronc. He goes, ‘I brought this to show you. I’ve been reading your interviews and you said you like Jacques Dutronc - doesn’t he look fucking cool there in his suit!’

“Then we just started talking and chatting and I was obviously in awe, but then a few weeks later, he mentioned about working together in an interview and so I followed that up and said, ‘Of course, I’d love to!’ So we did that [Weller co-wrote two of the tracks on Kane’s second album, Don’t Forget Who You Are (2013)] and that was great, and then he invited me up onstage with him, too.

“Since then, we’ve been friends, and I can't speak highly enough of Paul. He’s such a nice fella and he’s been lovely with me. To have a career like that is something I aspire to.”

9. T.Rex - The Slider (1972)

“I probably should pick a T.Rex album, and I do really like The Slider. It’s got Metal Guru on it and I love Buick MacKane as well. That tune is mega, with that riff that’s kind of like Led Zeppelin. I remember hearing that and getting totally buzzed off it.

“Let’s put that album in then, but I love so many T.Rex albums. Electric Warrior's great as well, isn’t it? That’s got Jeepster and Get It On, and Life’s A Gas is a killer. I got into them just from delving into Bowie and stuff like that. I love Bolan’s persona onstage. He's sort of got that feminine look that's sexy and manly, too. I love that sort of persona... and he was a great guitarist, too. I love the way he moves and plays guitar.”

10. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (1977)

“The Damned were inspiring me a lot on this album, songs like Neat Neat Neat and New Rose. I love the sound of it as well, all the energy.

“Last year, I remember being in New York and I’d be walking to the apartment where we were writing and doing these demos and I'd always be listening to Neat Neat Neat and New Rose while I was getting on the subway, trying to get them to inspire me because I wanted to write something like that… but it did work, that, because I guess you can definitely sort of hear The Damned in that Silverscreen tune - or you probably would know it if you've ever heard The Damned. So, yeah, that album was definitely inspiring.”

#Miles Kane #MKplaylist

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STRANGENESS FROM THE BLACK STAR SAGA

CHAPTER 1!

The Flavor Text, as I refer to them because I was a nerdling who played Magic in my YOUTH™. They’re further inspired by the bits of in-universe text at the beginning of chapters in Frank Herbert’s Dune. The thing is/was/forever will be that the flavor text wasn’t always so great, or wasn’t substantial enough, and as the book got BIGGER THAN THIS BUS I cut them down to one per PART of the Book.

Sol-Love, the colony world in the 2nd Jupiterian Cluster of Artificial Colonies, and home to Freyja and the DMD is derived from Soul Love, a David Bowie song. (That’s currently 3 Bowie References thus far. If you’re drinking at home, prepare yourself.)

Kaijin – I used Kaijin purposefully, because Kaijin is a term usually reserved for the foes of Kamen Riders and Super Sentai members. It’s more Monster/Mysterious Thing plus Person. There’s an intelligence behind the Kaijin, even if we don’t understand it at present.

Jaina Palence is literally just messing up the name Jack Palence who starred in a weirdly influential tv take on Dracula produced by Dan Curtis! Dan Curtis is also behind the soap opera Dark Shadows. Both of these play with the idea of the vampire being infatuated with the reincarnated version of their love (though Barnabas goes back and forth with this shit), and this take on Dracula would later find its broadest influence in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Although the reincarnated love aspect, given Dan Curtis’s infatuation with Universal Horror, is undoubtedly sourced in The Mummy (1932).

Jaina is a Representative of Yosei-62, an overt nod at Yosei Gorasu, better known as Gorath to English speaking audiences. The film was released on March 21st, 1962.

The capital Xillen – and it being the only functional Artificial World (a far FANCIER version of the colonies) would make it Planet 10, (because I grew up with Pluto and this is scifi nonsense), or Planet X. Xillians were the dub names for the X-Seijin from Godzilla: Final Wars. I guess maybe that works retroactively, but whatevs.

In the Year 2525 is the title of a Zager and Evans song that was the ONLY reason it’s set in the year 2525. Because I like the song and my playlists and long walks are what birthed this terrible monster!

AH! The Church of Humanity!

What in the every loving hell are these things? Future Legend (The original title for the series) was still appropriate because it involved the idea of using these fantasy or mythological tropes with the same sort of language and mystique BUT IN THE FUTURE!

So we get things like Clerics, Arch Deacons, Paladins, etc.

Church of Humanity is also because of my own personal crisis of faith I went through growing up. As a kid, who mostly only read Revelation because it is the END OF EVANGELION of the Bible (Plus Dragons), my relationship with religion was that we should like, be nice to eachother. I thought that was the BIG IDEA. BOY WAS I WRONG. Growing up in a highly conservative area I saw religion as a tool for exclusionary and manipulative tactics which disgusted me to no end. So I imagined a better future…like Star Trek, but with more armor and war and death and telepathy. The Church of Humanity was then a forward thinking reorganization of religion in space, a place in which blind and zealotry-ridden faiths had yet to really sink its teeth into.

“The Church of Man, Love.” A Lyric from Moonage Daydream – Waste Bowie Not, Want Bowie Not – became the Church of Humanity, and I felt COH has a solid tone about it when read aloud. It’s that fucking H man. It’s a very satisfying mouth feel.

There are a lot of mythological and historical references, but I’m gonna mostly go for the WEIRD NERD THINGS. Because I care about it more, probably.

Freecloud, the primary Venusian colony is UNSURPRISINGLY taken from The Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud. There is a specific Wild Eyed Boy, but MORE ON THAT IN A FEW YEARS OR SOMETHING.

The Enoch’s Cruiser model – CFX-JC07 is just abbreviating Crucifix Jesus Christ 07. 07 Because 2007 was a weird year for me, and the rest is obvious.

CREATIVELY BANKRUPT? I’D SAY SO.

Javin’s name, and this is dumb, came from a much older series of stories I had worked up during my teenage years, but here its attributed to a much nicer person.

The Garbage Hauler numbers is full of nerdiness.

RC-G4R is the hauler’s model number. There’s not a great amount of intelligence but its Wreck-Gar, Wreck-Gar was the leader of the Junkions in the 1986 Animated feature Transformers: The Movie.

The ID number – J3K10N1986 – Junkion and 1986 the year in which Transformers: The Movie released.

Star Lane registration GRW020163 – Is my mom’s initials and her date of birth. I had too many fake numbers to come up with and just sort of went wherever with it.

KUBRICK – Well, Kubrick is probably my favorite filmmaker, and his association with scifi via his seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey, led to there OF COURSE being a colony named Kubrick, it’s located in the 1st Jupiterian Cluster along with Yosei-62 (Jaina’s home colony) and Helena (Gerard Kil’s home colony).

Skell Tahl, and circling cover fire? Definitely not a reference to the Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family.

Bowie References – 7

#kaiju #novel #scifi #writing #mecha

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I was tagged by @ghastly-nightingale - thank you 🎃👻

Star sign: Taurus, so yup I'm loyal and stubborn. 🐂♉

Height: um about 5'5 I'm a small guy rip

Put your playlist on shuffle and name the first 4 songs that play:

Moonage Daydream - David Bowie

Seven wonders - Fleetwood Mac

Drink till I die - Sharon needles

California - Yungblud

Grab the nearest book and turn to page 23. what does line 17 say?

Honestly I'm too tired to check and I'll probably wake the house up, but I'm pretty sure the closest book is Hamlet

Ever had a song or poem written about you?

When I was like 10 some boy wrote a "song" about me, don't actually know if we were dating or not...

When was the last time you played air guitar?

Probably in the car with my dad last week, listening to queen

What’s a sound you hate? Love?

Hmm I hate the sound of chewing off fake nails (I know that's weirdly specific) or anything to do with nails tbh

I like the sound of a book being flicked through, or the crunch of leaves on the ground in autumn . And rain when it's hitting the roof of a caravan or car. Oh and teeth being tapped...is that weird?

Do you believe in ghosts?

Of course! I've seen one 👻

Aliens?

I'm kinda scared of the idea ngl, I worry they'd see how terrible we've treated this planet and just decide to wipe us all out. So I'd like to say no but idk ... 👽

Do you drive? And if so, have you ever gotten into an accident?

No I don't, I have my provisional but I'm sure it's in everyone's best interest if I dont start driving just yet.

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

Always absolutely loved it, could literally use it as aftershave (except I'd probably accidentally set myself on fire)

What’s the last movie you’ve seen?

Barbarella (loved it of course)

Do you have obsessions right now?

Besides the usual? I've been thinking about getting a corn snake and calling it Alaska🐍 and about what my next tattoo will be. Gotta carry on my Sharon arm since my last one was literally her face 😂

In a relationship?

I wish, I'm too socially awkward for that...

I Tag @abhorasgf, @412724whorepgh and @itsfleetwoodmac

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