boygenius
artist- boygenius
release- 2018
vibe- indie/folk rock
track list-
1. Bite The Hand
2. Me & My Dog
3. Souvenir
4. Stay Down
5. Salt In The Wound
6. Ketchum, ID
favorite songs- Bite The Hand, Salt In The Wound
week 7- 1/3/24
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strolling in fashionably late to the two year anniversary of the greatest musical adaptation of Moby Dick of all time, Caleb Hayashida's 'Moby Dick or the Whale'. I've been thoroughly enamored with this album for over a year now and it only felt right to do a tribute for its birthday :)
now, go do yourself a favor and listen to Sea Fever 💙💙
some notes about the details I added under the cut!
Some notes on this as a tribute!
Firstly, as always, my Ishmael design is stolen from the beloved @pocketsizedquasar :3
Secondly, the primary songs captured by this piece are meant to be 'Interpretation', 'Whiteness of the Whale', and 'Whaleman's Hymn'. Interpretation is primary, since that song refers directly to the painting at Spouter Inn, and Ishmael's attempts to interpret it. (Aside: it's a brilliant song that foreshadows chords repeated during the chase, it confuses and delights the listener much like book Ishmael's ramblings do, and it odes to the album itself being an interpretation of a novel. also it's a bop. I fucking love it.) The whale in the picture is, you guessed it, the whale song. That one I felt was important to center as Hayashida himself intentionally put that song at the center of the album as a focal point for the rest to follow around (and for the narrative to break inside - give it a listen, the end is incredible). It's literally the centerpiece. And finally, the lyrics are from Whaleman's Hymn, the gorgeous ode at the end of the album.
Ishmael is also posed as both moving and stagnant in the center as a reference to the cyclical nature of Hayashida's album. It ends with the same lyrics it begins with ("I must be out to sea"), and so here, Ishmael meant to be caught in the space between both of those songs. Moving and yet unable to move from where he is.
The watery effect was particularly inspired by Drifting, as that song fills me with an immense sense of peace and gives me the feeling of laying down at an aquarium watching the light of the water dance around. It also helps make the mood of the piece a bit more dynamic, as the looming painting, dissonant colors, and heavy shading all feel a bit foreboding, and the water effect both enhances that by giving an unnatural feel, and subdues that by communicating a semblance of peace and muting the colors.
The oil effect and jagged colors of the piece itself are references to the official album cover art! The flaming harpoon's colors are mimicked in the red light at the top of the painting, and the bright teal/white is mimicked in the whale at the bottom. They're also positioned over each other, just like on the album cover.
The painting itself is also supposed to be reminiscent of The Chase, in all its chaotic glory. Hayashida has an INSANE stroke of genius with that song where, at a certain point, two different time signatures overlap to show the whale opposing the crew/Ahab. The blend is so smooth that it's easy to miss if you aren't looking for it, and yet so brilliant that it makes you anxious for the buildup and final clash. The saturated opposing colors are supposed to be something of a nod to that, as well as the nature of the painting being a sinking ship and a white whale lol
So, yeah those are my notes! :D thank you for reading and definitely give this masterpiece a listen!! 💙💙
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NATIONAL HOLIDAY TODAY BTW
[ID: An edited screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first part reads: "people who celebrate album birthdays are annoying pass it on." The second part reads: "FUCK this post and happy birthday Moby Dick or The Whale by Caleb Hayashida." End ID]
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Seeing more of the "Izzy and Edward aren't close at all" meta that puts emphasis on how they only talk work stuff in a work environment and like. They live on a ship. They quite literally cannot leave the office for weeks at a time, and cannot truly ever clock out because what if the wind changes or a ship is sighted? Every single person they spend time with is a coworker and subordinate, and this has likely been true for 20-30 years for both of them.
Genuinely what casual personal life details do you think they have to share that they are deliberately keeping from each other? Izzy telling Edward about Stede in detail is literally the first thing that has happened to either of them in who knows how long that the other wasn't right there for and wouldn't be expecting to hear about as standard ship business.
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RePorpoised Phantasies
artist- Machine Girl
release- 2020
vibe- breakcore/digital hardcore
track list-
1. Cyan Hardcore
2. Waited So Long
3. Greaze - Machine Girl Mix
4. The Storm
5. Infinite Potentiality
favorite songs- Cyan Harcore, Greaze - Machine Girl Mix
week 5- 12/20/23
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[ID: A digitally drawn photo of Queequeg and Ishmael from Moby-Dick, kissing. Ishmael is a lean white man with short, wavy blond hair and sideburns. He is wearing gray pants and a gold wedding band. Queequeg is a muscular Māori person with warm brown skin, short, curly hair in a top knot style, and many intricate tattoos over his face and body. He is wearing dark pants and a gold wedding band. Both are shirtless.
Ishmael is sitting on Queequeg's lap, with a hand on his face and the other on his chest. while Queequeg holds him with one hand on his neck and the other on his back. They are kissing each other with lips parted in tender smiles. End ID.]
sooooo this was partially inspired by finding an adaptation of MobyDick that refered to these two as friends rather than a canonically married couple lmfao and I Needed to draw them being gay about it. congrats to the canon homosexuals in mobydick
anyways. this is what friends are for 😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖amen
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spending time with the people u love and eating and laughing and driving in cars with the windows down and walking around with them really is the most healing thing ever. i think everything will be fine
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