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granvarones · 7 months

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the 1980s marked a pivotal era in the rise of latino english-speaking recording pop artists who achieved mainstream success. this period witnessed the emergence of gloria estefan, menudo, and lisa lisa & the cult jam broke down barriers by blending dance-pop, soul, and electro music with latin rhythms. this captivating fusion created a path for a generation of young latino artists, including a teenage brenda k. starr to leave an indelible mark in the tapestry of pop music.

born brenda joy kaplan in new york city, a chance meeting with singer, actor, and activist harry belafonte on the set of the 1984 hip-hop movie “beat street,” landed a teenage brenda a role in the movie. the cameo garnered the attention of producer arthur baker who helped starr secure a record deal with mirage records.

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brenda’s debut single, the pulsating “picking up the pieces,” was released in the summer of 1985 as the latin freestyle music genre was still taking shape. the song reached #10 billboard’s dance chart and #83 on the r&b chart. the success of the single made brenda one of the first latino breakout stars of the still-emerging freestyle genre.

by 1987, brenda signed with MCA records and released her eponymous sophomore effort. the album generated three charting singles, “breakfast in bed” (#6 latin, #18 dance), “what you see is what you get” (#6 dance, #24 pop), and the quiet storm classic “i still believe.” released in february 1988, the single ignited radio and propelled into the top 20 on billboard’s hot 100 and adult contemporary charts.

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before i began to buy music with the money i earned from babysitting, i’d record my favorite songs from off the radio. whew, if that isn’t a generation x testimony, i don’t know what is. but i digress.

one of the songs i remember recording was puerto rican pop singer brenda k. starr’s 1988 hit “i still believe.” i was living with my late aunt blanca in the spring of 1988, and we listened to power 99 fm’s quiet storm every night to record songs. one night, when “i still believe” began to play, blanca screamed, “record it!”

as the 90s dawned, brenda would experience personal and professional setbacks. the commercial viability of latin freestyle began to dissipate. many latino pop/dance artists found themselves banished from top 40 radio, and despite brenda’s multi-genre success, she had become primarily known as just the “friend who helped mariah carey secure a record contract.”

in the mid-90s, former latin freestyle artists india and marc anthony had successfully pivoted into salsa music as younger audiences re-discovered the genre. this opened a lane for brenda’s re-emergence as a salsa music sensation. her 1997 cover of myriam hernandez’s “herida” topped billboard’s tropical chart in the spring of 1997.

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almost a decade after that summer with my aunt blanca, brenda’s music would have another family member screaming at me. in early 1997, my cousin evy called me at work to ask me if i remembered brenda k. starr. and of course, i did. she then said, “she is doing salsa now” and began to play “herida” over the phone. up until that point, salsa music was heard at family parties. but it took only one listen to brenda’s version of “herida” for me to run out and purchase her “te sigo esperando” album.

brenda’s album resonated with a new generation of fans and further showcased her ability to transcend and excel in multiple genres. in the years that followed, brenda continued to release and chart singles on the latin charts, including a 1999 salsa version of “i still believe.”

brenda k. starr’s musical odyssey continues. her journey from latin freestyle to her reinvention as salsa songstress has remained an enduring presence in her musical prowess. in just the past year, she has released two slammin’ freestyle tracks, “the only one i love” and “always remember,” and a pair of soaring salsa tracks, “quedate” and “soy otra mujer.”

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a couple of months ago, i texted a friend a link to brenda’s latest freestyle single “always remember.” it is only now, as i write this, that i recognize how music brenda’s music has been something i shared with family and friends – for 35 years! whew, my gawd.

brenda k. starr is a luminary preserving the sounds of both latin freestyle and salsa music, genres with strong roots in puerto rican communities. her musical journey is a testament that great artists are not confined to boundaries. instead, they adapt, evolve, and continue contributing to the ever-evolving sound symphony. this is why i still believe in brenda k. starr.

#granvarones #latino heritage month #hispanic heritage month #brenda k. starr #storytelling #queer #gay #afrolatinx #1990s #Youtube

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preesistersswallowingadonkeyseye · 10 days

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loose top 145 chart - list under the readmore

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island

2. Car Seat Headrest - How To Leave Town

3. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2

4. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

5. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

6. Earl Sweatshirt - some rap songs

7. The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music

8. Bladee - ICEDANCER

9. Prince - Purple Rain

10. The KLF - Chill Out

11. Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window

12. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

13. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

14. Animal Collective - Feels

15. desert sand feels warm at night - 夢の砂漠 (Dream Desert)

16. Hiroshi Yoshimura - SURROUND

17. Duster - Stratosphere

18. bedbug - If I Got Smaller Grew Wings and Flew Away for Good

19. Prince - Prince and The Revolution: Live

20. Mike - WEIGHT OF THE WORLD

21. The Weeknd - After Hours

22. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes

23. Radiohead - Kid A

24. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

25. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

26. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand

27. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial

28. The Microphones - Mount Eerie

29. Mew - Frengers

30. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

31. The Beatles - Abbey Road

32. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

33. Ride - Nowhere (Expanded)

34. Ween - The Pod

35. Radiohead - OK Computer

36. Fishmans - 宇宙日本世田谷

37. Fishmans - 98.12.28 男達の別れ (Live)

38. Massive Attack - Blue Lines

39. Stereolab - Dots and Loops

40. George Clanton - Slide

41. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

42. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

43. Car Seat Headrest - Nervous Young Man

44. Indian Summer - Giving Birth to Thunder

45. Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly

46. Jane Remover - frailty

47. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring

48. The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle

49. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

50. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

51. Bladee - Spiderr

52. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs

53. Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer

54. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

55. Alvvays - Alvvays

56. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

57. Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are

58. Julia Brown - An abundance of strawberries

59. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

60. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

61. Tyler, the Creator - Igor

62. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

63. David Bowie - Blackstar

64. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

65. The Beach Boys - SMiLE

66. Animal Collective - Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished

67. Nana Grizol - Dancing Dogs

68. Nana Grizol - Love It Love It

69. Gorillaz - Gorillaz

70. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

71. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective

72. Glass Beach - Plastic Death

73. Death Grips - the powers that b

74. Junior Delahaye - Showcase

75. Slowdive - Slowdive

76. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

77. Global Communication - 76:14

78. Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

79. Car Seat Headrest - 4

80. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

81. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice

82. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

83. Ween - Quebec

84. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

85. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt

86. Virtual Self - Virtual Self

87. Lil Ugly Mane - Singles

88. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

89. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

90. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in Brisbane '21

91. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

92. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

93. Frank Ocean - Blonde

94. The Cure - Disintegration

95. Nirvana - In Utero

96. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

97. Mike - renaissance man

98. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

99. The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water

100. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

101. Cardiacs - The Seaside

102. Gorillaz - Demon Days

103. Duster - Duster

104. My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

105. Thursday - Full Collapse

106. My Bloody Valentine - m b v

107. Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell

108. Porter Robinson - nurture

109. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks

110. bob hund - Bob Hund

111. Teen Suicide - i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body

112. Slowdive - Souvlaki

113. Cursive - The Ugly Organ

114. Ween - God Ween Satan: The Oneness (Anniversary Edition)

115. Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak

116. Sweet Trip - Velocity: design: comfort.

117. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

118. Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars

119. The Beatles - Revolver

120. Jane Remover - teen week

121. Glass Beach - the first glass beach album

122. blackwinterwells - Stone Ocean

123. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Formlessness - EP

124. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

125. Jordaan Mason - earth to ursa major

126. Weatherday - Come In

127. The pAper chAse - Hide the Kitchen Knives

128. Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite

129. Yung Lean - Starz

130. pilotredsun - Achievement

131. Bomb the Music Industry! - Album Minus Band

132. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

133. Doss - Doss

134. Kitty - Frostbite

135. Bob Drake - Medallion Animal Carpet

136. Parannoul - After the Night (Live)

137. J Dilla - Donuts

138. Ashley Ninelives - Eagle Creek

139. Vangelis - Blade Runner - Esper Edition

140. Akira Yamaoka - SILENT HILL2 (Original Soundtrack)

141. C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha

142. C418 - Minecraft - Volume Beta

143. Disasterpeace - Fez

144. Toby Fox - UNDERTALE Soundtrack

145. Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place (background)

honorable mentions to round it off to 150:

146. Julius Eastman - Femenine

147. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

148. Dinosaur jr. - You're Living All Over Me

149. Flipper - Album Generic Flipper

150. DJ Rozwell - NONE OF THIS IS REAL

#music #collage #topsters #numbers.png

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sideshow-tornado · 2 months

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Wilco’s “Summerteeth” was released on this date in 1999. I had become familiar with them the year prior when their collaboration album with English folk singer Billy Bragg, “Mermaid Avenue” was released and I loved it. I instantly loved “Summerteeth” as well, and dug into their previous works “A.M.” and “Being There”. I got to see them open in concert for R.E.M. later in the summer of ‘99. Terrible venue, outdoors at a race track in San Antonio, but the music was incredible. Remained a big fan ever since.

Here is the title track, a bouncy but melancholic jam.

#wilco #summerteeth #1999 music #Spotify

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splashinkling · 1 year

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I posted 1,774 times in 2022

That's 1,142 more posts than 2021!

99 posts created (6%)

1,675 posts reblogged (94%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@talesfromaurea

@ettawritesnstudies

@somanywords

@zmwrites

@pixelw0rds

I tagged 965 of my posts in 2022

Only 46% of my posts had no tags

#other's art - 334 posts

#others' art - 117 posts

#dice - 89 posts

#kirby - 56 posts

#tag game - 43 posts

#wip: mwtw - 41 posts

#ink writes - 40 posts

#ink rambles - 38 posts

#pokemon - 30 posts

#other's writing - 28 posts

Longest Tag: 135 characters

#omg the last line killing you means it's gonna be so so good- doesn't matter if the killing is in a good or bad way it'll still be 👌👌

My Top Posts in 2022:

Get to Know tag

another one of these! thanks for tagging @ettawritesnstudies!^^

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better or catch up with

favourite colour: blues and red! silver is a close second and purples are also up there

last song: Henry and LeeHi's cover of Like I'm Gonna Lose You

currently reading: nothing! my books are weeping on my shelf. you know what. reading Disco Elysium text should count, right??

last movie: I was half paying attention to Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island last night with my friends

sweet, savoury or spicy: always sweet! then savoury then spicy. currently having a not-bitter coffee right now haha

currently working on: another game jam idea! this time for one of interact-if's game jams

open tag!^^ but also tagging if you want uhhh... @latenight-stories, @dandelion-tea, and @ashen-crest (not sure if you've done this yet) and also @sleepy-night-child, @drippingmoon, and @talesfromaurea (again if y'all want)

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hey y'all! exciting news! my friend started pre-orders on their book, Wayfinders! it's a collection of four short stories about finding the way home!

both of us would really appreciate it if you could check it out (and maybe even order a copy while you're there 👀). thanks again!

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OC Couple Picrews

thanks @mschvs for the tag

ok funny thing.

I saw a post of this picrew a while ago and thought it was cute so I used to it to make reference pics for the Witch characters lmao. guess I'll get to share them

I also found the other picrew by sheer willpower

Here's 1. Summer Eryn and Lyzandir and 2. Lucille and Marina (but in not their usual clothes and Marina's not as purple as she should be and Lucille's hair is not as golden either and I'm screeing but I had to make it work)

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thanks for the tag @aalinaaaaaa!

let's tag @notwritinganyflufftoday, @drippingmoon, @sleepy-night-child, and @pixelw0rds, +an open tag for anyone who sees this

If your WIP was a video game, what type of game would it be?

as a certified Game Enthusiast™️ (according to my friends), I won't allow myself the benefit of going typical RPGs for both Den and Witch because I love talking about games and I'd like to think I'm well-versed enough to think of cool game ideas and RPG is an incredibly broad term that can mean Animal Crossing or Digimon Cyber Sleuth or Lego Batman 3.

Demons in the Den |

a top-down hack'n'slash game akin to Unsighted and Hades. I'd say more like Unsighted since this wouldn't be a roguelike. there would definitely be Metroidvania elements because exploration and attaining character abilities is awesome. plus having bosses you can challenge out of order or straight up ignore is always fun. I'd also say that you'd play the game as a pair (Mara and Aliah) and you can switch which of them you'd like to play as but also there's also parts where you're locked into one.

Memories with the Witch |

likely a life management sim with RPG elements. think Stardew Valley and Rune Factory type games. newer examples include the Atelier series and Moonlighter (but it's also a roguelike). the main game loop would be like Stardew or Moonlighter where you do daily business things and use the rest of the time for other things you wanna do. roguelike/roguelite features might be cool since Lyzandir can fulfill that role, but it's iffy if I want it to be more like a life sim. it's also kind of hard to incorporate all the characters because so much time passes, so I'd need to focus either on Lyzandir's time (more life sim) or Lucille's time (more action RPG)

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My #1 post of 2022

WIP Intro: Memories with the Witch

"Family... I'm not sure. I know I have one, but it's fuzzy. I don't know if they're even still alive."

Title (Tentative): Memories with the Witch

Genres/Themes: fantasy, slice of life, kinda-romance?, short chapters, D&D-inspired, found family

Status: Ongoing!

Synopsis:

Lyzandir has dealt with his poor memory for as long as he can remember. Just today, his best friend gifted him a journal to keep track of things, like how he stumbled upon a witch in the forest. The two set off to recollect his lost memories. Despite finally doing so, nothing changes.

And so Lyzandir continues his days alongside the witch.

Chapters (in posted order):

will be here when I get around to posting them somewhere

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #wowie

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jmrothwell · 1 year

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Writer Asks! 11, 15, 30, 49

Thanks agains Ash!! <3 (Long answer is long, so I'll put a read more after the first one. On that note I'll link the question list here: questions for fic writers)

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

I am very partial to Reggie (82 of my 99 fics are tagged with him, granted a lot of those are prompts but STILL. Plus I don't know if it's because other picked up on that too or not but like almost every time I open up prompts Reggie is almost always the top requested character)

I adore adorkable, rays of sunshine. Like I have 3 go to charcter types (two personality based ones, and then dark haired/light eyed characters) and like my wife picked up on Reggie being my fav before I even said anything to her, because he fits 2 out of the three.

It's at the point where if Reggie's Jam(or Now or Never) comes on in the car and the GPS interrupts the song, she just automatically restarts it knowing I'm going to anyway because HOW DARE.

He's a Star Wars fan with musical chops, he's a little airheaded bt he's got a heart of gold. And there is so much you COULD theorize and speculate about his character just because of what's been revealed and how he was played and I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

AAAAAAH! OMG!! but I have so many!!

I love my Supernatural Romance AU's (Feats of Crimson, We Run Together(it may only have the one fic but that is the verse name), Closest to Heaven, and Devil Searching For Redemption)

So those are definitley my top 4 but I don't know if I can rank them beyond that! They're all so good for different reasons!!!

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

Sink Your Teeth was out of my comfort zone regarding the intimacy. I am bad at writing action and being intimate is a type of action I hadn't really attempted before. (In fact prior to Slices of Summer-Fireworks I hadn't written that much in the way of kissing scenes, I think I'd only written one other kiss before then and it practically amounted to 'and they kissed')

I had a similar issue with I Could be the Monster with the Alex POV section because that one had a lot of action (It originally was supposed to have more and be MUCH more detailed but I think it flows fairly well with how it ended up.)

In each of those cases I struggled and wrote and worried and ended up sharing/posting thinking this will surely be hated/flop because all I could see was all the ways I could improve, or how it was envisioned in my head. And every single time the almost exact opposite happened.

Which just keeps reminding me A: to stop doubting myself, B: it's ok to take risks with my writing(I won't improve otherwise), C: Allowed me to sort of mentally give myself to pursue MORE stories like that.

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

Right now I am actively working on a few things atm, The next chapters of While You're in the World, Can't Get You (Out of my Mind), and I'm almost always slowly pecking away at my rulie fake/convenience marriage fic. Here's a few lines from each of those!:

R: luke

R: I’m serious

R: if ur not up I’m leaving ur ass

L: you wouldn’t

L: but don’t worry

L: I’ll be up

Luke was absolutely right, Reggie didn’t leave him behind when he wasn’t awake the next morning. However, the dark haired boy had no qualms against pummeling Luke with a pillow until he did wake up and got dressed.

“That’s a bit of a story.” Luke’s voice sounded over his shoulder, where Julie’s eyes drifted to. Reggie hadn’t thought this part of their plan through. He’d so quickly become accustomed to Luke’s vibrancy he almost entirely forgot he was dead, and very much looked it.

He braced himself as he watched the shock overtake Julie’s face, at this point he had almost been screaming. Reggie’d also forgotten how much Julie liked to unknowingly defy his expectations.

“I’m dreaming,” She exhaled as she turned away from Luke and himself.

WTF!?

JULES IS THIS YOU?!

Julie squints down at her phone, as a tension pulls inside her chest. The thoughts that had been swarming around her head like a beehive clear away only slightly as she tries to piece together what Flynn is going on about. She clicks the link to the video that was sent and immediately her stomach drops to her feet.

It’s not a very long video nor is it very clear, shaky and obviously taken by someone at a bit of a distance. However, she recognizes the building in the shot, the very same chapel she and Reggie had been at earlier that day-yesterday? What time was it?

Julie doesn’t care about the time soon enough as the video zooms in and focuses on Reggie, his broad smile only briefly obscured by what must be the back of her head, her dark braids falling into cascading curls. Julie forgets how to breathe as her chest collapses in on itself.

She remembers this exact moment and watches in a sort of distant horror, nausea building in the pit of her stomach, as Reggie laughs before linking arms with her. There is no denying she and Reggie very clearly, very soberly, very deliberately, walk arm in arm into the chapel.

#ask me things??

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andrew37109 · 7 months

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Holidays in Millport. Isle of Cumbrae.

Small memories of the place we would holiday as children. Laying here in the morning glow of waking with the ocean in my ears. A distant car door slams shut.

I remember crocodile rock. His big red tongue and bullseye eyes. The thick grassy overgrown path to the beach outside the caravan park. The tall green hedges that sheltered us in. I can still see the view from the caravan window, overlooking the sea. My brother and I would climb all over the rocks there and we would cook sausages on the beach. I would find red stones and gift them to my sunbathing mum. Then we would go poking and prodding at washed up jellyfish. The ominous underbelly of the caravan looked so mechanical and strong. I thought of it as alive, a titan on whose back we vacationed for a week. Dusty bottles of used gas, random stacks of unevenly cut warping planks and paint buckets sprayed with webs lurked beneath.

The tree outside the door I used to run around was so brown and warm to me. The grass so soft and green under my feet on hot days. All now a pleasant nostalgic blur. And a melancholic desire to relive those days.

I can hear the creak of the front step climbing inside the caravan and the smell of the colour of the sofas which transformed into beds. I remember sitting by the window doing jigsaws on rainy days, watching pellets of water racing and the magical sound on the tin roof. I remember my mum and gran making me French toast and being a fussy little germaphobe if anyone cooked it with their fingers. I remember my gran having a heyday with that one… what a little shit.

I remember going for walks with gran in town, gazing into windows at heirlooms, old phones and devices I didn’t know. Every window was single glazed and covered in sea salt. I can still feel the spray on my cheeks. Light blue paint flaked from the old window frames and the wind chilled us on Scottish summer days.

A holiday on an island by the sea.

There was a brown and red bar near the harbour where we would sit and eat soggy fish and chips. The smell of an old British pub is so unique. Cigarette smoke and vinegar. Puggies blipped and jingled and flashed. Always a sense of so many people having been there through the years. Dark wooden bars and chairs and stain glass windows. Sticky leather that burnt your thighs sliding into booths. Little numbers embedded in brass circles on the corners of overly varnished tables. Every year the ugly carpet becoming a darker shade of red. I think of it so fondly now.

There was the old walled in harbour, and the stone steps with no railing. You could walk around the boats at low tide and my brother and I would climb inside them and hunt for crabs in the surrounding rock pools. And always there was cheap machine whipped ice cream.

When a 99’er actually cost 99 pence. A flake and raspberry sauce. Yum.

We would drive or cycle around the island, which didn’t take long. Half way was Lion Rock, which truly did look like a lion stalking into the hills. I only ever made it halfway up his mane. I remember the disappointment at being too small to reach the next ledge, mum calling me to come down. On the other side of the island there was a cafe in the hill, with a stair leading down to a small golden beach inside a rocky bay. We lay there all day once. And I asked my parents for money for a hot scone. The butter and jam was so delicious. I think it was the first scone I ever had. Then I had another. And then I dropped the third in the sand. My mum said no to a fourth replacement. Oh the heartbreak…

We would walk past the old pub my grandpa had once owned, where my parents met, my dad reminiscing over a seam on the wall he had glued many moons before. To me it seemed so grey and old. It was boarded up now. And has since been demolished. But my parents would speak with love for the times they had there. The friends and random characters from that time in their lives and how the place was haunted by marching soldiers when the lights were turned off. My dad was the bar manager back then and my mum came over for a summer job. I wish I could have spent a time back then with them. I wish I could have ridden along with my dad listening to Bat out of Hell on cassette on repeat driving around the island twice. Bliss.

Not far from there was the fair. I remember high stone walls at the entry and blossoming green trees that peaked over them. Though I can’t remember the fair itself. Just the sound of dodgems and the random rains that would pepper the day, like so many in Scottish summer.

I remember more the graveyard on the walk up the hill. I was fascinated by the old stones, the names of people I’d never known. Entire life stories boiled down to fading words and overgrown weeds. It was so sad and so lovely. I never knew that feeling before. Suddenly I was aware of human mortality. And as much as it saddened me, I found it beautiful.

In later years we stayed at another park. Though the two have blurred together in memory. I remember the drives to the ferry in Largs. We had a CD in the car titled “Power Ballad Heaven”. ‘Every Rose has its thorn’ by Poison was our favourite and my Gran would sing ‘Didn’t I see you crying’ by Cheap Trick. She would say “Did’l I see you crying” which my brother and I thought was quite hilarious.

There was a day we went to a small cafe and said hello to an older woman who knew my parents from way back when. She spoke of people who had since passed on and the changes on the island in years gone by. She wore a blue lunch apron and a warm smile.

There was an arcade in the caravan park and I made friends with a boy and a girl there I think… and we got up to no good together. There was a man aptly named ‘super cop’ by my parents, who had known him in their heyday. Named such that he was always waiting to lay down the law to troublesome youths. To spoil the island mischief fun. Though I don’t actually think he was a police officer. I once told Mum and Dad a story about getting into trouble with him.

“Not today” I told them he’d said, but to what I can’t recall. But my parents laughed and that was all that mattered. They still bring it up to this day, and I haven’t the heart to tell them that little boy me fabricated the whole thing for their amusement. I can still see my dad gesturing the “wanker” sign with his hand to super cop, shaking his wrist with one leg lunged inside the caravan door. I had no idea what it meant.

There was another path from this caravan park to the highest point on the island. I remember ankle breaking rocks embedded in the path and playing hide and seek in the thorny bushes that enshrouded it, scratching my arms and legs, pushing myself deeper in, determined never to be found. When I finally emerged the game was long over and the kids were playing something else. I felt foolish but also seperate from them then. I turned up the path and followed it for what seemed like a great time, all the way to the highest point on the island. And I was alone and it was sublime. I consider this the moment my consciousness turned on. I was young but suddenly aware of a great many things. For the first time I could appreciate a view, which you simply don’t when you’re a child.

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* Bay Area Magazine (May 7, '99)

EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING?

Mike Patton puts his faith in Fantomas and Mr. Bungle So what if Faith No More is actually no more? Doesn't mean there aren't worlds to plunder. You've seen Imperial Teen (ex-keyboardist Roddy Bottum) grace these very pages, and perhaps you noticed the dreads behind the drum kit on recent Ozzy tours (Mike Bordin). But what's become of whisper-to-scream frontman Mike Patton? He's quite busy, thank you very much. Besides forming Ipecac Recordings with Alternative Tentacles veteran Greg Werckman, two notable storm fronts are approaching. The first is the self-titled debut from Patton's hardcore pet project, the Fantomas, with Melvin's guitarist Buzz Osborne, Mr. Bungle Bassist Trevor Dunn, and Grip, Inc.'s Dave Lomardo on drums. How to describe it... Carl Stalling meets island-era Anthrax? Words for this level of intensity are probably futile, but let's just say when the record hits, Marilyn Manson will have more in common with Stuart Smalley than your mother's worst nightmare. That's the more immediate future. Then there's what may be an even bigger shocker: the summer release of, as Patton puts it, a "pretty fucking poppy" album from Mr. Bungle? "All I know is that to my ears and the ears of everybody in Mr. Bungle, it's our version of pop music," he says. "We wrote some simple songs, well, they're simple to us. I don't know, it's kind of Bacharachesque, a little bit of Beach Boys. Then there's some other shit that sounds like fucked-up Charlie Feathers rockabilly. It still gets around- put it that way." Bacharach, Beach Boys and Bungle? There aren't too many bands that can mix Korn's nots with Zappa's schizophrenic sophistication, but these guys certainly aren't afraid to try. We caught up with Mike to talk about both projects.

How did the fantomas come together? i just wrote a bunch of fucked up music that had been swimming around in my head for a while. I probably wrote this stuff two years ago. Sometimes you write you write things and they get lost on your bookshelf, so to speak, and other times you see them through. And this was one that I really wanted to see through. So it was like, "Wait a minute. I've got to find some people to play this shit." Because this is a pain in the ass to play. I mean, it's fun because it's challenging, but, let's be honest, it's hard.

How would you describe the music? Fast. Really, really fast. Hardcore stuff mixed in with some noise, absolutely no improvisation at all, structured down to the bone. It's got a little cartoon music thing going into it, some B-movie soundtrack kind of influence, stuff like that. This music is like constant data being thrown in your face. It's not like verses and choruses. The structure of itis very easy to forget. It's a lot of details. It's a bunch of cherries on top of the cake, with no cake. The goal was to make very weird music that rocked and I think it happened, and thank God I found the right musicians.

How did you get this group together? Trevor, obviously, you've woked with for a long time. How did you get to know Buzz and Dave Lombardo? I knew Buzz from the Melvins, but we were just acquaintances. Same thing with Lombardo. I just met him once. These people came to mind as I was dredging through as many players as I could think of that would be good to play this stuff. The first drummer I talked to was the drummer in Sepultura, Igor Cavalera, a friend of mine. And he was into it, but he's coming from his own place, and I wasn't secure that that place was the right place for this music. Meaning, I sent him a tape and he was kind of like, "Well, these are some nice ideas. Maybe we can jam a little bit on this." Whoa! Wait a minute. This isn't jam music, bud. I know it dosen't sound like a song, but that's what I hear as a song. I was like, "Oh, fuck, the drummer is the cruz of this thing. In this type of music, you're only as good as your drummer." And then I thought, "Oh my God, Lombardo is the man.Of course!" How could I have possibly not thought of him sooner? These were pretty much my first choice guys, and I called them and they were excited and it worked together a little bit too easily. I'm still waiting for some kind of porblems. We all get along too well. The music is fun. We have a good time on the road. It's too easy. Something is going to happen.

Musically, did it come together quickly? We did a couple shows at Slim's. We rehearsedfor five days. They were like 20 hour days--it was brutal. Because not only were we attempting this music, but we were getting to know each other. It's a bit of a psychological adventure when you start a band; you never really know what your're getting. It's a weird gene pool, these musicians. Each one is their own ball of wax. Some more complicated than others. I've known Trevor half my life, so that was a no-brainer, and that make me feel good. Like, at least there's one guy I'm going to be able to count on. Buzz is a fucking wig, you know? He's amazing. But once I figured out how he worked, and how to make him comfortable and excited about this music, everything came together. Dave just chewed it up and spit it out. He's more than the prototype for all metal drummers. But what blew my mind, I think most people that come out of that scene are fucking boneheads. Let's face it. Even if they are good musicians, they don't want to be challenged. They don't want to try new things, especially drummers:"Keep me in the back; tell me what to do." Dave had way more energy than even I had coming into this. At the end of a 20-hour rehearsal he'd go, "I still want to work on this one part of it."

Shifting gears, what's this about the California pop album from Mr. Bungle? Was it a conscious effort to go for simplicity, or did it just come out? It kind of came out. But when it came out it was like, "Wow, this is really strange. Let's see it through to the end." you know, let's make this record stand on it's own. Let's not worry about the other records we've make, whether it's going to fit into the grand fucking scheme of things, because there is none. Let's make ourselves happy here.

I take it that the music is stylistically all over the map. Pretty mich. There are contrasts, for sure. I don't know really how to describe it. It's over-orchestrated, put it that way. Pretty much on any point in the record, if you drop the needle, you would say, "This is five piece band." That's going to make for a fucked up live show. I don't know how we're going to do it, epecially the vocals.

You normally did all the harmonies on previous recordings. Are the other members of the band going to be doing a lot of singing live? I hope so. If not, we're going to have to hire a small choir or something [laughs]. I'm going to have to sit down and run through Harnony 101 with some of these guys. But they can all sing, so it won't be a big deal.

Speaking of big deals, I remember back on the first album there was some controversy of the song "Travolta," where you chabnged the title to "Quote, Unquote." Did anything ever really happen leagally with that? Absolutely nothing happened. Typical record company bullshit, where they create a problem before the problem has happened. It was pathetic. They were afraid that John Travolta, in between making this movie and that movie and trips to the bank, would fucking have the time to listen to a Mr. Bungle record, get upset, call his lawyer and sue Warner Bros. for millions of more dollars. Give me a fucking break!

So that was kind of rammed down your throat? [Sarcastically] Uh, yeah. They said we had to change it. At that time I hadn't been through that many of those kind of scares, hoaxes. And we just kind of gave in. It was kind of like they put a gun to our head: "Do you want your record to come out this month? If you do, you had better change the title." And it was literally at the last minute. I don't know, record companies love to do things like that.

What's Bungle's standing right now with Warner Bros.? I don't know if I'd we're on the chopping block, but they're watching us. Like a hawk, I think. We're on an album-to-album basis with them; we could be dropped at any time. That's my feeling, and I think that's a healthy attitude. Being on an album-to-album deal is, I think, really great in that your're not tied up for seven years in some situation that you can't stand. What happens is we'll make this record, if it sells a trillion copies, then they'll probably want to pick up the option for the next one. If it bombs, they might think about dropping it. To their credit, they've never put any constraints on Bungle. So far, they've been incredibly hands off. Almost suspiciously so. Like, "Do whatever you want," which always makes me think they don't give a flying fuck and may just be trying to humor me. I don't know. I always was suspicious of that, so to see any kind of reaction from them is, for us, i think, a promising thing.We'll see.

From BAM Magazine, May 7, 1999 NO EXIT - by Don Zulaica **Thanks To Marc B.**

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The Tragically Hip, "My Music At Work"

Music @ Work (2000)

I'm going to argue with that date there, because this song absolutely comes with a story attached.

It was the summer of '99, and my mother took me on a tour of colleges in upstate and western New York. Plattsburgh, Albany, and Buffalo. Buffalo was the first stop on the tour, and as SOON as we got past the toll barrier at the far end of the New York State Thruway, we were lost. It was Sunday afternoon, and we drove around for what felt like hours before we found where we were supposed to be.

And in those hours, this song must have come on the radio at least three times. And every time I jammed so hard I nearly cried. It was the very first time I had ever heard The Tragically Hip, and from that moment on I was HOOKED. It also assured me that I would okay. No matter what life handed to me, no matter where I ended up, I would always be okay.

Gord Downie and company saved me. It's a debt I will never be able to repay.

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On Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Times and Friend of Gladio Terrorists

Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (26 October 1926 – 15 February 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist known by ex-Moonies for his role at the Washington Times, but he also held key positions at Newsweek and the United Press International, and was a founding member of Newsmax Media. He was also known for associations with Rev. Moon’s political network, the CIA, and the global far-right.

From the New York Times obituary, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88:

His father, Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d’Altena, was head of military intelligence for Belgium’s government in exile in Britain during World War II. His mother, Audrey Townshend, was the daughter of a British general. When he was 14, Arnaud, his mother and his sister fled the Nazi invasion by boarding a freighter from La Gironde in southwest France, bound for England. When it changed course for Hamburg, Germany, as part of a plot by the captain, as he recounted it, he jumped overboard. The three were rescued by a British destroyer, which had been alerted and took them to England. There he attended King’s School, Canterbury, as well as the H.M.S. Worcester Nautical Training College. When he was 15 or 16, he persuaded his grandmother to claim that he was 17 so that he could enlist in the Merchant Navy. He was wounded on D-Day — shot in the leg and knee, by one account — when, trying to fix a jammed ramp, he leapt off a landing craft carrying Canadian troops to Juno Beach. After the war, the United Press news agency in London hired him as a writer, and in 1949 Mr. de Borchgrave succeeded Walter Cronkite as the agency’s bureau chief in Belgium. Two years later he joined Newsweek in Paris, where he helped hire an American Embassy information officer named Ben Bradlee. Mr. Bradlee would succeed Mr. de Borchgrave in Paris and later become editor of The Washington Post, while Mr. Cronkite became the anchor of CBS News. Debonair, perpetually tan and diminutive (he was called “the short count”), Mr. de Borchgrave cut a distinctive figure at Newsweek, where he served as foreign editor, roving senior editor and chief European correspondent. His exploits in corralling heads of state for exclusive interviews and insinuating himself into the front lines of battle were legendary, even if a few of the accounts might not have survived today’s microscopic scrutiny. (Did he parachute into Dien Bien Phu with French troops in 1954 or step off a helicopter?)

▲ Arnaud de Borchgrave speaks at the World Culture and Sports Festival '99 in Seoul Korea, February 1999. De Borchgrave's deep connections to the Public Information Office (PIO) reveal his own Gladio connections.

In 1950, de Borchgrave joined Newsweek as its Paris bureau chief and would stay with the magazine for thirty years, serving as Senior Editor from 1953 on and starring as its chief international correspondent throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, de Borchgrave played a key role in the genesis of PIO; as Bougerol recalled in an interview, it was de Borchgrave who, in the early 1970s, introduced Bougerol to PIO's future patron, Benoît de Bonvoisin. According to a May 1981 Sûreté report on de Bonvoisin's contacts in Paris, de Borchgrave also allegedly acted as an intermediary between de Bonvoisin and the CIA.

In the late 1970s, de Borchgrave was one of PIO's prized foreign press contacts; when PIO chartered a plane to fly journalists to the Zairean province of Shaba in 1978, the plane had to wait on the tarmac for one late VIP - de Borchgrave. De Borchgrave subsequently filed reports for Newsweek alleging Cuban involvement in the Katangese invasion of Shaba; Moss drew attention to de Borchgrave's Newsweek articles in a piece he wrote for the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review in its Summer 1978 issue (262)*. De Borchgrave and Moss were already longstanding friends; they had met in 1972 when de Borchgrave, in hiding in London after writing an article on Black September for Newsweek, asked to meet a specialist on subversion (263). The meeting would herald the beginning of a long partnership between the two men which would reach its peak in the 1980s.

De Borchgrave would also benefit from close contacts with SDECE chief Alexandre de Marenches, who, when asked where would be an interesting place to spend the Christmas of 1979, advised de Borchgrave to go to Afghanistan. De Borchgrave was one of the few Western journalists on the spot during the Soviet invasion (264). De Borchgrave would be fired by Newsweek in 1980 after he was discovered to have been building files on his colleagues for several years. At the time, he was working with Robert Moss on the first of two notorious disinformation novels, The Spike and Monimbo, both heavily influenced by the veteran CIA Counter-Intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and filled with plots of Soviet subversion launched with the assistance of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the complicity of left-wing journalists in Europe.

In 1985, de Borchgrave would become editor-in-chief of the Moonies' newspaper, the Washington Times. The Unification Church would be a forum for cooperation between de Borchgrave and Cline: Cline was on the Editorial Board of The World and I, the Moonies' monthly edited by de Borchgrave. De Borchgrave was a former Board member of the Moonies' US Global Strategy Council, chaired by Cline in the late 1980s. Cline and de Borchgrave also shared a platform with William Casey as speakers at a special conference series on intelligence held at the Ashbrook Center, Ohio in 1986, one of Casey's last public appearances before his death in May 1987. At this time, de Borchgrave was working with Moss and John Rees of the John Birch Society in a "risk analysis" company, Mid-Atlantic Research Associates (MARA); the three also edited a monthly private intelligence report called Early Warning (265)*.

Together, de Borchgrave and Robert Moss engaged in disinformation efforts and authored novels influenced by intelligence activities, Monimbó in 1983 and The Spike in 1980. Moss today is now grifting new age circles as a so-called shaman.

▲ An advertisement for a Robert Moss event In the early 1970s, de Borchgrave played a significant role in introducing key fascist figures to influential institutions, acting as an intermediary between them. He is said to have been the one who introduced Benoît de Bonvoisin to the Public Information Office (PIO) of the Belgian Ministry of Defence for the sake of funding. Bonvoisin became their primary patron. The PIO was publicly exposed as being infiltrated by and working with right-wing private intelligence entities and terroristic anti-communist organizations. Bonvoisin was also said to have been a major funder of, broadly, the far-right, funding countless Gladio operations beyond PIO.

In the 80s, he was a senior associate at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies.

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SECURITY AND TERRORISM (1981) - chaired by Strom Thurmond

We have another international journalist of extensive experience in journalism and with the subjects on which he has written, including the subject of disinformation and espionage. He, too, is associated presently with the Center for Strategic International Studies at Georgetown University, Mr. Arnaud de Borchgrave.

De Borchgrave was also on the Board of Directors of the US Global Strategy Council, an organization closely associated with CAUSA chaired by former Deputy Director of the CIA Ray Cline, fellow disinformation specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Inside the League” suggests that Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) was also partially funded by CIA discretionary funds and/or U.S. Embassy Counterpart Funds transmitted through Ray Cline. Moon was a member of APACL during this period.

In 1985, de Borchgrave became the editor-in-chief of Moon’s Washington Times after pro-Pinochet James Whelan left the Washington Times, denouncing it as being under the command of Moon’s movement.

From ‘Arnaud de Borchgrave Boards Moon's Ship’ by Louis Wolf and Fred Clarkson in Covert Action Information Bulletin No. 24:

On March 20, 1985 the public was informed that Arnaud de Borchgrave was the new editor-in-chief of Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s newspaper, the Washington Times. Media analysts knew at once that Washington’s already shrill rhetoric would be reaching new heights.

Even before Ronald Reagan took office, de Borchgrave had ready access to the President-elect. On December 16, 1980, they met for a ‘‘very lengthy conversation’’ about disinformation, propaganda, and de Borchgrave’s recommendations for White House media strategy, nationally and internationally. That strategy must have paid off; de Borchgrave told the New York Times, ‘‘The Washington Times is the first thing Ronald Reagan reads each morning. He called me up and told me so.’’ (May 26, 1985.)

At the end of this article, Wolf and Clarkson wrote:

Asked whether the United States engages in disinformation, de Borchgrave said that present and former U.S. officials trying “in a free society . . . to put the best face possible” on what they are doing or did in government is not disinformation. “That is called the management of the news.”

Related articles and notes below

The World Anti-Communist League: the Internationale of Crime - Thierry Meyssan

On the Ramparts of Freedom - Arnaud de Borchgrave at the God and Freedom Banquet celebrating Reverend Moon's release from Danbury Prison, August 20, 1985

From Bo Hi Pak's Messiah - My Testimony to Rev. Sun Myung Moon Volume II - Pak on de Borchgrave

The Unification Church and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action: the case of the UC - Lobster Magazine

Note: The Center for Strategic and International Studies was founded in 1962, the same year Bo HI Pak began studying part-time the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, after over a decade of intelligence work. From 1961-1964, Pak was working as the Assistant Military Attaché at the Korean Embassy, in constant communication with his bosses and colleagues at the KCIA and the US CIA. More on Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan

The semipermanent terrorism experts of CSIS have been Ledeen, Laqueur, Kupperman, and Cline, but Yonah Alexander, Claire Sterling, Paul Henze, Arnaud de Borchgrave, and Robert Moss have been occasional participants in CSIS's activities bearing on terrorism. We noted earlier that the spectrum of terrorism opinion may be divided into three categories: (1) establishment moderate; (2) establishment far-right; and (3) critical and dissident. In this spectrum, of the four semipermanent and five transitory experts at CSIS, none fit category (3), only two (Laqueur and possibly Kupperman) fit category (1), and the seven others fall into category (2) right-wing extremist. The CSIS is not a "moderate" organization by this measure, or others noted above.

More on the United States Global Strategy Council from The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan

The council links together individuals connected with the Unification Church and other far-right operations (ASC, CIAS, and IFPA), to CSIS and the omnipresent Yonah Alexander. It has former officials Cline, Kirkpatrick, and Rumsfeld to lend respectability-to its terrorism studies. With this political cast, that South African viewpoints would be put in the frame of Soviet support and insurgent "terrorism" is a foregone conclusion.

More on “The Spike” by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss - DE BORCHGRAVE (The Washington Post) - July 8, 1984

In two bestselling novels, The Spike (1980) and Monimbo (1983), de Borchgrave and coauthor Robert Moss lay out the scenario of this underground war, one battled with such subtlety by the enemy that most of us don't even know it's going on.

The story is one of classic decline and fall: barbarians (the Soviets) from without and decay (a media honeycombed with Marxist dupes) from within. The allegations of this plot have not gone unnoticed by some in the Reagan administration. At a Washington book party for Monimbo last September, administration figures who showed up included presidential counselor Edwin Meese, Attorney General William French Smith, USIA director Charles Wick and FBI director William Webster.

Because he has spent more than three decades as a reporter, The Spike and Monimbo aren't seen only as novels by de Borchgrave fans, but as thinly disguised accounts of what he thinks goes on in the media gulag. And because he spent so many years as a reporter, the vision of the world presented in the novels has many former colleagues scratching their heads about how he came to believe such a proposition.

1979 Assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs Set Groundwork for America’s Longest War - Covert Action Magazine

Shortly before his death, Anwar Sadat admitted to the world the massive role played by the U.S. in the Afghan rebellion. He revealed. to the consternation of U.S. officials, that Egypt was the conduit for U.S. arms shipments to the rebels, suggesting a scale of paramilitary involvement even greater than had been suspected. U.S. intervention in Afghanistan even reached the Style’ section of the Washington Post in a recent note describing a propaganda film supporting the rebels. The film benefit was sponsored by a shadowy group called Youth for Understanding, which sends American students overseas in highly-controlled and isolated programs. YFU's board includes David Abshire, Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, base for many “retired” intelligence officers. Attending the screening were CIA Director William Casey and disinformation specialist Arnaud de Borchgrave.

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Water Park) 20:19 Liquid Kings - Hang Up, Feel Free (Lounge Mix) 20:14 Air - La Femme D'argent 20:08 Noel - Chalito - Ibiza Chillhouse Lounge Mix 20:04 Gxr And Kathie Talbot - 5 A.m. 19:57 Mobymusic - Whispering Wind 19:50 Dj Disse - Walk On The Wild Side 19:47 Synthetic Substance - Eternity 19:43 Petit Biscuit - Sunset Lover 19:39 Lowland - Cafe Del Mar 19:32 Jean Martin - In My Dreams (Extended Remix) 19:26 Fresh Moods - Solarcell 19:19 Sweet Velvet - La Realidad (Feat Debora Vilchez) (Ibiza Del Mar Cafe Lounge Vocal Mix) 19:12 Dab - Have A Smoke 19:06 Future Loop Foundation - Monika's Summer 19:01 Gary B - Set Me Free 18:55 Scott Simmons - Children (Mediterr-asian Chill Mix) 18:51 Mastermind - Wanna Give You Shelter 18:44 Ibiza - Ibiza Blues Swing 18:35 Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me 18:29 Chilloutlounge - Letting The Cables Sleep 18:26 Claes Rosen & Natalie Peris - Stay 18:18 Little Big Bee - Searchin' (At Jazz Remix) 18:11 Chicane - Saltwater (The Thrillseekers Remix) 18:07 Jose Ramos - Alone Again 18:04 Karen Souza - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 17:59 Guss - Milesing 17:54 Merge Of Equals - Clear Blue Sky (Original Mix) 17:47 Sly - Like Love (Original Mix) 17:43 Morcheeba - Under The Ice 17:37 Rollercone - Daydreaming 17:32 Bright And Beautiful - Night Rains - Sound Of Ibiza Mix 17:26 Peter Linski Experience - Everything Flows 17:21 Solid Gold - Save A Prayer (Nick Tatler & Phil Blohm Instrumental) 17:12 Chilloutlounge - Track 3 17:08 Fidelity - You Don't Know 17:02 Coastline - Adriatic Sea - Lounge Cafe Chillout Del Mar Mix 16:54 Roger Sanchez - Lost (Ibizarees The Unforgotten Mix) 16:50 Alex Cortiz - Fingerprints 16:42 Alex Paterson - Flex-e-fun 16:37 Peter Pearson - With All My Love (Bliss) 16:32 Collective Sound Members - Journey To A Dream (Original) 16:27 Dj Milews - Children (Ambient Del Mar Winter Cafe Mix) 16:23 Triangle Sun - Beautiful 16:17 Klangstein - Deep Dive (Original Mix) 16:09 Space Manoeuvres - The Seventh Planet (Leama & Moor Mix) 16:04 Ohm-g & Bruno - Jungle Light 16:01 Dragon Lounge - Saigon Sundown (Asia Cut) 15:56 Sinan - 99 Reasonsfeat. Omenzeter 15:51 Jjos - Let It Go (Remix) 15:45 Zero 7 - Space Between, The 15:37 Bong & Eddie M - Rain From The Suite 902 (Original) 15:29 Deep-dive-corp. - Bassic (Flow Mix) 15:24 Saigenji - No Meio Da Chuva 15:20 Coolinar - Wednesday Night 15:15 Brooke - 1 Want To Know What Love Is (Balearic Hypno Dub) 15:10 Sofa Sweeper - The Sad Side Of The Street (Mellow Guitar Mix) 15:04 Good Chillaz - No Motion (Jazz Relax Mix) 14:59 Gelka Feat. Phoenix Pearle - Being You 14:55 The Angelica Project - Another Skin 14:50 Purplastic - Nathalia (Ambient Mix) 14:44 Nautic - Freedom Of The Floor (Open Space Remix) 14:39 Lounge Aura - Something (Geronimo Chillout Mix) 14:35 Dr. Meaker - Need Love 14:30 Vanegas - Te Voy A Querer 14:25 Lux - Head Centre 14:21 Blank & Jones - Desire 14:14 Silent Poets - Moment Scale 14:07 Universe Music - Guitar Beach Lounge 14:01 Gelka Feat. Phoenix Pearle - Million Nights 13:55 Naoki Kenji - Bedtime 13:49 Madonna - Frozen 13:43 Victor G. De La Fuente Feat. S - Tu Despertar (Original Chill M 13:38 Sleepingroom Armada - Hope (Feat Inocencia Comas) (Easy Erotic Groove Lounge Mix) 13:32 4tunes - In The Middle 13:27 Coastline - Adriatic Sea - Dj Lounge Del Mar Vs. Milews Ambience Mix 13:20 Pep Llado Feat. Antonio Martin - Vai Vedere 13:16 Thomas Lemmer - Savannah 13:11 Melibea - Jam In Dawn 13:06 Coyoteeve Feat Saro - Tribastone 13:02 Ku You - 40 Degrees 12:55 Phil Mison - Lula 12:48 Paco Fernבndez - Al Lado Del Mar 12:44 Flamingo - My Friend (Mercer & Gissal Chilled Version) 12:40 Cold Blue - Underwater Love 12:34 Cafe Del Mar - Leftfield - Fanfare Of Life 12:29 Naoki Kenji - Endless 12:24 Alessandro Boschi - Sentosa 12:20 A$ap Rocky - L$d 12:13 Wharmton Rise - The Augur Revisited 12:06 Bent - Swollen (Napoleon Remix) 12:02 York Ft Asheni - Iceflowers 11:58 Lemon Sol - Beautiful Morning (Piano Cafe Chillout To Ibiza Del Mar) 11:53 Orange Music - Islandlover (Monotonic Trip Mix) 11:48 Ravi Costes - Lion Sleeps - Cafe Groovera Hotel Bar Del Mar Mix 11:42 Ypey - Love In Spain 11:38 Moon Tribe - Moon Tribe 11:33 Dab - Pure Joy 11:32 Moby - Everything Is Wrong 11:28 Jjos - Don't You Want Me (Chilled Mix) 11:24 Nouvelle Vague - Love Will Tear Us Apart 11:19 Soft Wave - Plenitude Part 2 11:14 Melibea - Fusion 11:06 Chillsurfer Armada - Relax Your Mind (Cafe Buddha Del Mar Luxury Lounge) 11:01 Bedroom Surfer - Make It Happen - Meet Her At Costa Del Sol Mix 10:55 Cdm - Many Rivers To Cross 10:50 Bay Area - Santa Monica Blvd (No 17 Mix) 10:46 Tranquillo - Elaborated Compassion 10:39 Rue Du Soleil - Essential Feelings 10:33 Frank Borell - Somber Moods 10:28 Lounge Worship - Above All (Instrumental) 10:24 Re:locate Vs Robert Nickson - Resource (Rechill) 10:19 The Essence - Serpentine 10:15 The Weeknd - Earned It 10:11 Camille - In A Manner Of Speaking 10:05 Shivana Faction - Talking In Whispers 09:59 Wonderphazz - Memories (Chill Guide Mix) 09:53 Freemasons - Love On My Mind 09:48 Jjos - Body & Soul 09:44 Flume Feat. Andrew Wyatt - Some Minds 09:39 Afterlife - Espalmador 09:34 Arrojas - Didascalias 09:30 K Vassiliadis Ft Marien - Den Efiges Lepto (Dub Mix) 09:22 Tommy Awards - Hotel Odemark 09:17 Mamani - Glowing Desert (Aloe Trumpet Mix) 09:10 Sweet Velvet - Recalling The Rising Sun 09:04 Art Of Lounge - Moments In Love (Buddha Bar Mix) 08:58 Leaking Shell - After Hour 08:53 Aloha From Hawai - Sunset Cocktail Lounge (Cafe Bar Chillout Del Mar Cafe Mix) 08:49 Emapea - Laka 08:45 Airstream - Electra 08:40 Sunset People - Summer Madness (White Sand Cut) 08:36 Melibea - Lamento (Al Ponerse El Sol) 08:32 Cafe Easy - Summerbreeze 08:25 Hirudo - Spy From Cairo (Classic Instrumental Mix) 08:20 Steven Solveig - Boa Noite 08:13 Alpha X - Nocturnal Trip 08:08 Chilloutlounge - Track 8 08:04 Erotic Lounge Deluxe - Gimme The Night 08:00 James Bright - Little Things 07:56 Ultraviolet - Ready Or Not (Chilled Out Mix) 07:51 Miraflores - Waves Of Love 07:47 Alex Baratini - My Play (Chill Out Mix) 07:39 Noel - Hold Me (Relax Lounge Cafe Chillout Mix) 07:34 Manoa - Repeat It In Slow Motion (Trippin Clouds Mix) 07:29 Jjos - Falling 07:24 E-love - Cause I Love You No More (Alster Lounge Chill Out Vocal Mix) 07:21 Oh Wonder - Technicolour Beat 07:15 Sven Andersson Iii - Journey To Your Soul (Cosmic Cycle Buddha Lounge Bar Mix) 07:05 Chilloutlounge - Track 2 06:59 Gary B - Set Me Free 06:54 Joey Fehrenbach - Untouchable (Feat. Vi Flaten) 06:50 The Fray - How To Save A Life 06:43 Schwarz & Funk - Night Over Bangkok 06:39 Verbal Kint Feat. Judie Jay - Break My Dreams (Original Live Mix) 06:35 Washed Out - Face Up 06:28 Pacator - Tränen (Marcielo Ambient Mix Instrumental) 06:22 Alex Cortiz - Ibiza Trumpet Thing 06:18 Mirrored - Stand Still 06:12 Massive Gold - Follow Me (Feat Jaywee) (Chillout Del Mar Cafe Instrumental) 06:06 Monique Bon - La Musique 06:02 Andras & Oscar - (I Know) What You Want 05:54 Nore Elle - Desert Storm 05:50 Adrien Aubrun - My Last Poem 05:46 Vio Beach - Piano Chillout (Ambient Dream Mix) 05:42 Gelka Feat. Phoenix Pearle - Flying On Clouds 05:38 P.m F.m - Chinchilla 05:31 Lenny Mac Dowell - Zanzibar Feeling 05:27 Pensees - She 05:22 Coronado (Pianofly Mix) - Bay Area 05:13 Va - Soar Angelic 05:07 Phil Mison - Lula 05:00 Schwarz & Funk - Remando Al Viento 04:54 Blue Chakra - Free From You (Half Tempo Long Chill Mix) 04:49 Liedschatten - Seaside (Original Mix 2006) 04:45 Amethystium - Calantha 04:40 Sine - Morning 04:33 Royspop - Mid Summer Nights (Luxury Deluxe Del Mar Mix) 04:28 Limelight - Oxygene 4 04:22 4tunes - Where Are You Now (Feat Hed) (Kandi Hotel Enigma Mix) 04:16 Michael E - Sark Of Searenity 04:12 Jjos - Breathe 04:08 The Avener & Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (The Avener Rework) 04:03 The Sura Quintet - Lampedusa (Sunset Session) 03:58 Jeff Woodal - Silver Birch 03:53 Ziller - Pearl & Dean 03:46 Milews - Miami Beach View - Sunset Del Mar Cafe Lounge Mix 03:41 Smooth Deluxe - Ibiza Sundown (Cafe Buddah Mix) 03:37 For - For Want Of Her 03:31 Fenomenon - Pacific Memories 03:24 Moon De Lounge - Melodia Amore - Buddha Lounge Bar Chillout Mix 03:19 Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeis 03:15 Plasma - Spring 03:09 Night Traffic - Rain 03:03 Kiss Audio - The Voice Of Freedom (Spiritual Version) 02:59 Lemon Sol - Beautiful Morning (Piano Cafe Chillout To Ibiza Del Mar) 02:55 Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line 02:48 Vargo - Get Back To Serenity 02:43 Solanos - Shameless 02:38 Atb - Remember That Day 02:29 Tactful - No Fear 02:24 Coastline - Adriatic Sea (Dj Lounge Del Mar Vs. Milews Ambience Mix) 02:21 Tall Paul Vs Inxs - Precious Heart 02:12 Aural Float - Dreamer's Dream 02:09 Urban Phunk Society - Spring 2 Summer 02:03 Omnimotion - Cozy Life 01:58 Atjazz - Storm 01:52 Martin Bro - To Lose Part 01:48 Va - Serpentine 01:42 Avalona - Empty Streets 01:36 Mark Gorbulew's Manhattan Groove - Dreamsville 01:29 More Than Ever People - Levita 01:24 Moorcheeba - Moog Island 01:18 Jjos - Heartbeat (Balearic Club Mix) 01:14 Ac - Meditarrean Sundance 01:07 Machomovers - Smooth Operator 01:02 Blue Metheny - I'm Calling Out 00:56 Night Loungers - A Little Lazy Morning In Paris - French Kiss Del Mar Instrumental 00:51 Jazz L'amour - Summer Dreams - See The Light Mix 00:45 Vargo - The Moment 00:40 Green Lemon Feat. Magica Fe - 11 O Clock (Pure Beach Cut) 00:34 Mark's & Henry's - The Making 00:27 Dr Drummer - Galactica Soul 00:20 Aurosonic, Denis Karpinskiy & Kate Louise Smith - They Wait For Us (Chill Out Mix) 00:14 Tosca - Mango Di Bango 00:09 Manoa - Walk This Way 00:04 Triangle Sun - Beautiful 00:00 Vibrasphere - Tierra Azul (Omnimotion Feat. Krister Linder Remix)

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1. Coffee or tea? Tea

2. Black and white or color? Color

3. Drawings or paintings? Both

4. Dresses or skirts? Both

5. Books or movies? Both

6. Pepsi or Coke? Neither, soda is disgusting, you can clean your toilet with it 🤮

7. Chinese or Italian? Both

8. Early bird or night owl? Early Bird

9. Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla

10. Introvert or extrovert? Both

12. Hunting or fishing? Fishing

13. Winter or summer? Winter

14. Spring or fall? Fall

15. Rural or urban? Urban

16. PC or Mac? PC

17. Tan or pale? Tan

18. Cake or pie? Cake

19. Ice cream or yogurt? Ice Cream

20. Ketchup or mustard? Mustard

21. Sweet pickles or dill pickles? Both

22. Comedy or mystery? Mystery

23. Boots or sandals? Both

24. Silver or gold? Silver

25. Pop or Rock? Neither

26. Dancing or singing? Singing

27. Checkers or chess? Chess

28. Board games or video games? Both

29. Wine or beer? Neither

30. Freckles or dimples? Both

31. Honey mustard or BBQ sauce? Honey Mustard

32. Body weight exercises or lifting weights? Lifting

33. Baseball or basketball? Basketball

34. Crossword puzzles or sudokus? Sudoku

35. Facial hair or clean shaven? Facial Hair

36. Crushed ice or cubed ice? Crushed

37. Skiing or snowboarding? Neither

38. Smile or game face? Game Face

39. Bracelet or necklace? Both

40. Fruit or vegetables? Both

41. Sausage or bacon? Neither, I'm vegetarian

42. Scrambled or fried? Scrambled

43. Dark chocolate or white chocolate? White Chocolate

44. Tattoos or piercings? Tats

45. Antique or brand new? New

46. Dress up or dress down? Both

47. Cowboys or aliens? Aliens are more interesting, Cowboys are racist

48. Cats or dogs? Cats

49. Pancakes or waffles? Pancakes

50. Bond or Bourne? Bourne

51. Sci-Fi or fantasy? Both

52. Numbers or letters? Both

53. Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? Both

54. Fair or theme park? Theme Park

55. Money or fame? Money

56. Washing dishes or doing laundry? Dishes

57. Snakes or sharks? Sharks

58. Orange juice or apple juice? Orange

59. Sunrise or sunset? Sunrise

60. Slacker or over-achiever? Over Achiever

61. Pen or pencil? Pen

62. Peanut butter or jelly? Almond Butter & Jam

63. Grammys or Oscars? Neither

64. Detailed or abstract? Detailed

65. Multiple choice questions or essay questions? Both

66. Adventurous or cautious? Both

67. Saver or spender? Both

68. Glasses or contacts? Glasses

69. Laptop or desktop? Desktop

70. Classic or modern? Both

71. Personal chef or personal fitness trainer? Trainer

72. Internet or cell phone? Internet

73. Call or text? Both

74. Curly hair or straight hair? What are dreads classified as?

75. Shower in the morning or shower in the evening? Both

76. Spicy or mild? Spicy

77. Marvel or DC? DC for life, Marvel sucks ass

78. Paying a mortgage or paying rent? Mortgage

79. Sky dive or bungee jump? Sky dive

80. Oreos or Chips Ahoy? Neither

81. Jello or pudding? Neither

82. Truth or dare? Truth

83. Roller coaster or Ferris wheel? Roller Coaster

84. Leather or denim? Denim

85. Stripes or solids? Solids

86. Bagels or muffins? Muffins

87. Whole wheat or white? Wheat

88. Beads or pearls? Beads

89. Hardwood or carpet? Hardwood

90. Bright colors or neutral tones? Both

91. Be older than you are or younger than you are? Younger

92. Raisins or nuts? Both

93. Picnic or nice restaurant? Both

94. Black leather or brown leather? Black

95. Long hair or short hair? Long

96. “Ready, aim, fire” or “Ready, fire, aim”? WTF??

97. Fiction or non-fiction? Both

98. Smoking or non-smoking? I smoke nothing.

99. Think before you talk or talk before you think? Think First

100. Asking questions or answering questions? Both

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