Michael is currently on tour in Europe/Britain with "Princess Goes" . Their new album "Come Of Age" came out yesterday!!!
Today they will perform in Utrecht/Netherlands at an event called "Night Of Poetry" with other performers at the Tivoli Vredenburg. It is probably an impromptu show, because they already had a gig in that venue on Monday and this event wasn´t advertised in the beginning.
Tomorrow they will finish the tour in London at the Earth Club.
Go and see them If you haven´t already: It´s a blast. And - as far as I know - tickets are still available.
Pictures are not mine. Sorry, I will post the credits (when I find them again....)
the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.
David Tennant being a lifelong Doctor Who fan who was inspired by the show to act, becoming the Doctor and Ncuti Gatwa who watched David Tennant and was inspired to act, playing the Doctor opposite David’s Doctor is the most beautiful thing
"We seem now to have traded in the function of elderhood and its very iffy status for the biological mandate and the vague affirmation called grandparenthood, as if they are the same thing. In an elder-bereft time, it may be as close as many older people can get to elderhood." -- Stephen Jenkinson, Come of Age: A Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits
I'm kinda impressed that the best songs of the Come of Age album are the ones they never performed live before. I was so excited to hear Come of Age, Blur and Jetpack but they didn't really lived up to the live versions :/ I wonder if they recorded them before the deal with the new studio? And those 5 last songs were in that studio? Idk but anyways, my favorites are definitely Beija and Saving Grace
a lot of stories will take a so-called "golden age" period and go "hey it wasn't actually that good, in fact it kind of sucked for basically everyone but a few guys who benefitted from exploiting the rest" and i can respect that because i love a good exposure of the bones the system is built on, but the thing is i also kind of want more stories where it really was that good and just as horrifying for it. empires bursting at the seams with opulence, where gold really does run as freely as blood in the gem-encrusted streets. warriors clad in shining armour, with weapons so bright and sharp they hurt to look at. every day is overflowing with possibility, every night a party where people gorge themselves sick on sheer excess and still return for more. even the poorest man in the region lives in comparative luxury to his poverty-stricken peers elsewhere. and none of it is sustainable. it's collapsing under its own weight and the rot eating at its heart, its bottomless hunger barely kept at bay. it's a society that isn't built to last or be outlived.