Me: wow I can't believe Joseph Quinn won a fan voted award it's crazy
Also me: seeing that the Eddie Munson tag has 630k followers, Joseph Quinn tag with almost 300k followers, a big Twitter fanbase, Joseph having almost 7B views on TikTok and Eddie Munson having over 17B views having the most for any fictional character ever. Joseph being the most mentioned celeb on Tumblr of 2022 and Eddie the most popular character too. Him winning a GQ award and being on every best of 2022 lists. 🧎🏽♀️🧎🏽♀️
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“I loved Alice, she just seemed so dreamy. I remember when we talked about acting in Bangkok, and our approaches to it. She said something very interesting, which was when she acts she does something kind of immersive, in pretending that she's like in a dream. And the way you behave in a dream, you can be in very sort of absurd circumstances, but you respond to them as if you would in your waking life. So I liked her mentality, and her whole vibe and everything. So I was excited to work with her as a director, and then the script I thought was wonderful.”
Dasha Nekrasova on acting in Ensemble Magazine interviewed by Georgie Wright
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hiiii can i get a joel from late may? it was exactly may the 25th when he took over my life absolutely out of nowhere, and it was the best thing that happened in 2023 🥺
awwww I'm so happy for you!! for me it was also May but a different year 🥰
[source: a deleted post on Joel's IG]
send me a BC member + a month and I'll answer with my favourite picture of him from that month
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IMustBe Leonardo — Not To Be Scared of Weekend (Self-Release)
“Why should you need gods when you have John Peel or PJ Harvey or Meryl Streep and Stan Kubrick and Kim Gordon, fallible, fantastic, inspiring people but just people like you trying to create and share beauty?”
That’s a small part of a monologue that ushers in IMustBe Leonardo’s “Kim Gordon,” a meditation on humanism, the power of creativity and the emptiness of organized religion. It’s an odd, intoxicating little glimpse into an idiosyncratic mind, spoken in uninflected tones by the Google reader, but even so, deeply, fundamentally human. When the spoken word fades, the music enters, a wispy, whispery voice asking repeatedly, “Why should...you need god…when you have Kim Gordon?” against a minimalist frame of acoustic strumming, which is just a bit later submerged in a most satisfying swell of amp feedback and dissonance. It’s a poem, a philosophy, a lo-fi acoustic lament and a blast of rock-and-roll mayhem all in one, and while certainly one of the most arresting tracks, not even the best thing on this eccentric album.
IMustBe Leonardo is a Berlin-based songwriter who has been making his oddball songs since around 2016. He gets a little radio play here and there, and a handful of people are ardent supporters, but you could spend a whole lifetime listening to music and not run across his work. That would be a shame. His outsider-y poetry is slow to light but catches fire on repeat plays. About half the tracks are hand-made rock songs, bolstered by clicky drum tracks and ravaged guitar tones. The other half are the maddest, most surreal campfire songs you ever heard, gently strummed but extremely odd.
Out of these, perhaps, consider “All the Poets Here” a murmured litany of wry observations about all the things that the poets are getting up to. The line lifts gently at the end of phrases, not so much a question implied as these evanescent thoughts blowing away on a slight breeze, and every sentence is a little koan. “Oh the poets here are naked and they feel like war/oh the poets here they say they’re crying when it rains/Oh the poets here don’t wash for days and weeks and months” and so on.
Other cuts are more taut and rhythmic, as for instance, “Government Press Office’s New Rattle,” with its staccato Young Marble Giants-ish guitar riff and punching drums. The cut might remind you of Lewsberg in its mordant chant that takes brief flights into melody, in its quiet tensions that erupt into noisy crescendos of guitar. There’s a song in there, a well-shaped melody, swamped almost entirely by ennui and static.
And indeed, the artist seems aware of his tenuous but legitimate claim on pop music. His song “Perfect Pop Song” rattles on like a wind-up toy, with its sharp hedges of guitar picking, its nonchalant chatter of verse. And yet, it is sort of a pop song. You can sing along after a bit. It creates an economical amalgam of melody and meaning, a unitary sort of structure that is exactly what it is, and then blows out that structure in a profusion of harmonies and vocal counterpoints.
This is a wonderful album, absolutely original and striking and unpremeditated. Listen to it a few times, and you might find yourself asking questions, like: Why do we need gods when we have human beings making beautiful little songs out of sticks and string and imagination? Why do we need forgiveness when art swaddles us in solace and connection and meaning? Why do we need religion at all when we have IMustBe Leonardo?
Jennifer Kelly
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