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vro0m · 1 year

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vro0m’s rewatch - 164.2/310

2015 US GP

Part 2 of the US GP review : the podium and the postrace interviews.

On the podium, Lewis seems very happy. I don't know why but it's not sinking in for me? It seems like any other win lol. Lewis signs himself.

Then he touch Seb’s back as always, puts a hand on Nico's shoulder and says a few words to him. Nico is not even trying to not look utterly pissed. I can't blame him.

Seb doesn't even have time to set down his trophy before Lewis starts spraying him with champagne.

Paddy pours Nico's champagne down his race suit while Nico turns his back to the crowd and looks down.

It doesn't spoil Lewis' mood though. He's ecstatic now!

Sir Elton John is leading the interviews, weirdly. He's wearing a black and gold Adidas tracksuit which is. A choice. For a podium. Lewis says he can't believe he's here. "It's Elton John !"

He thanks the crowd for being here and standing in the rain, he hopes they put on a good show for them today. He can't find the right words to say how it feels. He couldn't have done it without this team that really took him on board. "I love you guys, thank you so much for everything you do for me." And to his family at home, they're watching. And teamLH, "Still I rise."

Nico is laconic. He's very disappointed, he doesn't know what happened. He thanks the crowd as well. He reiterates he’s disappointed. No word about Lewis, who's talking with Seb.

Seb started 14th and finished 3rd. He says being that fast gives him hope for what's to come. But it doesn't feel great when you cross the line and know you can't fight for the championship anymore. He congratulates Lewis who's done a superb job all year, congratulations to his team, but they're getting close and hopefully they can fight them next year.

"And Lewis, celebrations tonight?" Elton John says. "Are you throwing a party?" he answers. "I'm gonna party, I'm playing tonight later…" – "I'm gonna be there," Lewis says. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

The crowd chants his name until he lifts off his trophy to them. Lewis, Paddy and Elton take a photo together.

Niki says it's very good they have another 3 times world champion. "Can't complain!" He says it was the best race ever to watch. Ted says he must have thought at some point it wouldn't get done today or even maybe that they wouldn't win the race. He says he was most worried about Seb passing Nico and the whole thing being delayed. Everybody did a very good job, the whole team, which is the most important. What does he think of Lewis' achievement? Does he think he can get better from there? "No, he's only as good as I am, " he says, deadpan. Then he laughs. "I'm joking. Three world championships! He will get better and win more, I don't worry !"

Toto is very happy as well. They're blasting music in the garage. He says Lewis deserves the title for sure, he was brilliant in his driving, he also was lucky the car didn't let him down this season. Nico was a little bit less lucky. It was a bit of a difficult one today for Nico so they need to build him up again over the next couple of days but next year, new rules, and he'll give it another go. Simon is handed the trophy. He says he hasn't had a word with Nico yet. They need to keep the balance right within the team "so it's always between headteacher, psychologist, father, brother, team boss." Simon asks why they didn't pit Lewis during that second safety car. He says it's because they would have had to stack them which means losing time. They weren't sure if it was the right call. There were a lot of marginal calls during the race. Simon asks if he has a message for the people back in the factories. Toto sets down his glass of champagne, grabs the trophy, and says "Yes I have a message, this is yours, you've won it!"

We see the F1 world champions standings. It goes like this at this point :

Michael Schumacher 7

Juan Manuel Fangio 5

Alain prost 4

Sebastian Vettel 4

Jack Brabham (literally never heard his name before?!) 3

Jackie Stewart 3

Niki Lauda 3

Nelson Piquet 3

Ayrton Senna 3

Lewis Hamilton 3

Simon says "Of course the great, the legendary Michael Schumacher still way out in front… But then again, Lewis AND Sebastian Vettel have got plenty more years in them yet." Indeed.

Lewis was asked if it was a dream come true in his press conference. He says he's overwhelmed at the moment. His first British championship, his dad and he drove home singing "we are the champions". He says he owes it all to his dad and family who supported him all these years and sacrificed so much for him to be here, and the positive energy he gets from his fans. He realises that while he gets to enjoy driving a Formula 1 it's really a platform he can use to inspire young people and he hopes that they got from today to never give up on their dreams and hopes and to keep working at it. There were many points he thought he'd lost the race but not for one second he believed he couldn't do it. Nico drove a fantastic race, he's been driving fantastically well. "So mad respect for him as my teammate." He calls it a humbling experience especially to equal Ayrton Senna who meant so much to him and still does today. He smiles. He feels very very blessed.

While they start asking questions to Nico, Lewis hides his eyes behind his hand. He's emotional.

Then he says something to Seb with a smile but Seb barely reacts.

Nico says he got wheelspin which never ever happened to him before even in testing (that’s not true they complained of it several times during starts). They need to look into it later but it was obviously really really tough to lose the lead and the win like that, because he was feeling really good at that point. "And turn one… Yeah for sure was very aggressive… Pfff…" He's literally pouting and sulking. "What am I gonna say you know? You've seen it again, I haven't seen it you know so how the hell– I can't comment yet. I need to see it as always. You know for sure it was extremely aggressive. We hit each other. Well I would say Lewis came into me. So… Obviously that's not good but." The camera pans out to a larger angle. Lewis is frozen beside him with a poker face. Seb is frowning.

Back to the broadcast, Paddy is wearing a world champion shirt and a Pirelli cowboy hat. "I'm not built to Texas scale," he jokes as he demonstrates the hat being way too big for his head. Paddy says it means a lot to him personally because he's worked with Lewis throughout his career and he's been there for his three championships. He's not trying to claim any credit because it's a huge team working for it.

Hill picks up on him saying Nico and Lewis are a good pairing for a team. He asks what Nico brings that makes him work well with Lewis in that aspect. Paddy says it's because they have such different characters but are equally able to get the very best out of the car and push each other. He says it's underestimated how important of a factor that is in a team. The two drivers pull each other up on a bad day, because every driver has a bad day, and they need a reference from the other side of the garage. It's fantastic having these two guys because they're both really top of their game. He doesn't think Lewis could have gotten where he's gotten in the last two years without Nico on the other side of the garage. That's a genuinely interesting point of view.

They show him the start and when they touched. Paddy says although he didn't study it in detail, Lewis came on the radio and said he didn't mean to do that. He still calls it a tough manoeuvre to throw on a teammate, legal or not, and he suspects he had way less grip than he needed.

Then they ask him why they didn't pit him. He says the right call was to pit during the VSC and they did so with the leading car. Stacking the cars would have caused issues to the second car which is why they didn't pit Lewis. They agree Kvyat crashing was a turning point and the race might have gone differently if he hadn't, although Nico really lost when he went wide.

He says it's a tough day for Nico, but he'll bounce back. Johnny also asks if he thinks we've seen the best of Lewis Hamilton (l-m-a-o) and Paddy says with much nuance "we're seeing the best" and then he adds "as we go on." He further explains that that year was his best performance but who knows where the limit is, because he might do even better the next year. Hill asks about Lewis getting more comfortable with the team. Paddy says he thinks getting a second title the previous year he "became much more at home with himself" and relaxed into the job.

Oh and we're actually gonna hear more from Lewis! He says he feels very relaxed right now, overdue a drink with the team, but he's buzzing and has a hard time putting it into words.

He says it's the greatest feeling he's felt in his life. He can't believe it and it was such a fun race! He describes it, ups and downs, Nico being 10 seconds ahead at some point and then he came back with strength. He says he never gave up. He talks straight to the camera. He hopes he made his mom proud, his dad, Linda, Nick, his sisters, his aunties, all his family, team LH, he hopes he made them all proud and he loves them all and is thankful for all the support all these years.

He reiterates there wasn't one second of the race he didn't believe he couldn't do it. He's interrupted by some woman to whom he smiles wide and who comes to kiss him on the cheek.

"From one three world champion to another three world champion (sic)", she says. I think it's Jackie Stewart's wife? She tells him well done and he thanks her and says it's good to see her.

Rachel asks Lewis what Jackie Stewart told him. Lewis says firstly it was great to have him come over and he's such a great champion. It's a great feeling being congratulated by him. He said he remembered how it felt for him and it must be doubly great for him. Lewis says he doesn't know why he said that but he doesn't think anyone can feel as good as he does right now. "I just wanna dance, but I can't!" he chuckles.

Lmaoooo Lewis please. Grow up. She asks him such a great question and he gets so defensive. "You've been pushed by your teammate, how much of your success can you put down to having someone who challenges you so much in the same team?" He stops smiling.

He stutters. He says it's a difficult question. He doesn't think it's a large chunk of it. "It's really down to my guys, my group, the whole team obviously working together and myself as a driver, it's just work that I do on my own," he continues to stutter. "I never really leant on someone else to pull me along the way, you know, I just had to try and find it myself." And that's really what he had to do today, he says, and he gets back to the race and changes subject. He really had to improve his own driving while he was out there (I just wanna note here that along the way this year he got into the habit of saying whilst instead of while and it throws me off everytime it sounds so weird.) to be able to compete with Nico. He was destabilised by the question at first but he's found his footing again now as he’s answering so he says of course it's great to have a teammate that's pushing and helping the development of the car.

Rachel says "please tell me you're not gonna celebrate with just watermelon juice tonight like you did last year?"

He shakes his head. "Definitely not. No, definitely– lots of change… Tequila tonight." – "Enjoy!" she answers.

He laughs, thanks her, and moves on.

It's hilarious hearing them talk about how great and important he is to British sports with all that came after and the smear campaigns basically. They say Bernie himself thinks he's a great champion and so proactive and all that.

Jackie Stewart gets there. He says he's so happy he was there and Lewis is so happy, justly so. He drove a good hard race. Jackie Stewart says he knew he'd never race again when he won his third, unlike Lewis who's looking forward to being able to win more titles. He's got a lot of years ahead of him and he's got every opportunity to win four or five (lol, or six or seven?). Simon asks if he thinks it's possible, in the current car, how long can they continue. Stewart chuckles. "It could be five or six!" (here ya go!) Mercedes is so superior right now, the engine, the chassis, the engineering talent they have, it's outstanding. Seb won 4 titles back to back and that's the type of things you can do when you have that superiority. Johnny says we've seen Lewis' talent grow and grow and grow, I don't understand his question. He says Stewart was critical of F1 and drivers needing a hand and asks if he would help him out. I don't get it. Stewart says he couldn't help him out because his days are passed. Funnily enough he thinks driving-wise it doesn't change, he says. He says all the great drivers of the past people love to bring up had the same way of driving, he cites a bunch of them and he says Lewis can go ahead and do it that way. You're always learning and the older you get the more you learn and the more you can adapt to some of the idiosyncrasies that you would have previously wrestled with. (Ahhhh! He's so right! We’ve seen it happen with Lewis!) You learn how to put them aside and go around them rather than fight them. He thinks Lewis is now at that point when before he was fighting them (YES ABSOLUTELY JACKIE!) and the three men standing there all say yes. Now he could mature a little bit maybe by being more confident, given he has won three titles and you don't need to race hard all the time to win (I don't think he knows how to race any other way than hard though lol). Johnny asks him if it excites him to see him on track because it excites him because he's always on. Stewart says he is exciting to watch whereas Prost wasn't exciting to watch because he was so smooth and clean. He adored the way he drove, just like Jim Clarke (he rambles about them a bit). Simon says everybody would like to see Ferrari on par with Mercedes in 2016. He asks if we put Seb and Lewis in a Mercedes, who does he bet on? Stewart says he thinks three teams are completely capable if they get it right : Ferrari, RedBull, and Mercedes. They have more money and resources than the others. (He rambles again, old man.) He says drivers like Sebastian Vettel and Lewis are so well placed within these teams, and he also cites Alonso who he says has one of the best heads in Formula 1 (All I can think of is : “How's your head? Never had any complaints.”). He thinks they all can win a lot of races. Simon asks again : in a straight fight, Seb against Lewis? He makes a face. He thinks right now Lewis is the fastest driver in F1. Johnny backs him up, "absolutely".

Seb is disappointed to have lost the title. But it was a very good race and the car was good, even in mixed conditions. He says he's not predicting "I don't have…" he gets a demented smirk, "you're a woman so I have to be careful but…" she chuckles, he smiles more. "I have balls but I don't have a crystal one." He says he doesn't wanna know the future, he knows they're working very hard, but first they have to finish this season in style. She says Lewis said he wants a battle with him next year. You can see him swallow and then smile. Istg. He says of course he's keen on that if it goes the other way around.

Nico. She asks him first about the start but he says no he'd rather talk about other things first if it's okay. He talks about his mistake. He says again it never happened before and it was weird. He's really confused about it. The race was his. He finally congratulates Lewis and says he deserved to win the WDC. He's had a great season and drove well and he was consistent. And finally, turn one. He says it didn't have a big impact on the race because he was able to get back in the lead (that's true). He says he just looked at it and he was ahead mid corner and so he had a right to the track. So Lewis was too aggressive, took it one step too far. That's not okay. She asks if he told him that. He says no, because he just saw it now. They haven't spoken. He says apart from his mistake it was an awesome race, all over the place, great battles. She asks if he realises the cap Lewis threw him was just his (girl you're brave). "On the podium? Oh you mean in the room…" He says it was nothing. "It's just our typical games." (!!!) He sniffs. She asks if he has the stomach to try again next year. He says he's not thinking about next year, he's trying to digest today.

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cyb3r-s1ut · 4 years

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Hotline Bling • Zion Kuwonu

Summary • To be honest, I don’t even know yet.

WC • Circa 1,600

Genre • Mild Angst, nothing too bad.

You used to call me on my cellphone

Late-night when you need my love

Call me on my cellphone

Late-night when you need my love

And I know when that hotline bling

That can only mean one thing

I know when that hotline bling

That can only mean one thing

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3 months, 1 week, and 4 days. That’s how long it had been since Zion last saw you. But, hey, who's counting? If he had been, he would have succumbed to that void feeling in his chest by now. The one created by you but ultimately worsened by his actions. His actions ruined the best thing he ever had. But it was your fault too, right?

If you didn't have such an illuminating smile, such a feather-light yet addicting touch, such an effervescent personality, such a radiant aura then the both of you he wouldn't be in this situation. No. If you hadn't wanted something more and Zion hadn't been too scared of ruining a good thing even though he knew you deserved more— deserved better. He knew you deserved the world and the stars along with it, but he was so afraid he couldn't give it to you. So he cowered behind his thoughts; he dismissed the relationship you had, shutting you out in the process.

He was expecting you to dismiss the fact that he couldn't come to terms with himself you and continue with the late-night phone calls. The sneaking out of the house at 1 and 2 in the morning — when he thought everyone was asleep — to spend hours at your place. Half naked smoke sessions with deeply thought out conversations lingering in the air with every puff. Or hot nights in your room that always seemed to end with clothes scattered here and there, fluffy comforter somehow still clinging to a corner of the bed, and the sheets tangled around only you because he was never there when you woke up. ’He had better, more important things.’ you would convince yourself. But when you finally stopped gaslighting yourself with that excuse, you found out he couldn't face his own music.

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Ever since I left the city, you

Got a reputation for yourself now

Everybody knows and I feel left out

Girl, you got me down, you got me stressed out

'Cause ever since I left the city, you

Started wearing less and goin' out more

Glasses of champagne out on the dance floor

Hangin' with some girls I've never seen before

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Guilt. Jealousy. Anger. Sadness. Utter outrage. One of these emotions— maybe even a mixture— was grasping at his heart and yanking at the strings right now. Even so, he couldn’t stop rewatching the clip on his phone in front of him. It wasn’t like he was meaning to find you. He just happened to be scrolling through the explore page on Instagram and much to his sudden disbelief you were the thumbnail on some video. Against his better judgment (of course) he clicks the video, watching you hold a cup of God-knows-what in the air as your body hazily sways in a sea of people inside of what looks to be a club. Zion’s face is still one of shock as the girl recording yells something cringey about all of her friends being ‘baddies’ and ‘hot girls’ and continues to survey each of her friends, including you, while everyone gets more excited with the new song’s change of pace.

It could’ve been all in his head but that video seemed way longer than the allotted one minute. He doesn’t know how many times he watches the video before he decides to click on the girl’s profile (a bad decision on behalf of his 2 functioning brain cells). His thumbs seemed to move on their own as he scrolled down her page and searched through countless posts of herself, her with her family, and her with her friends. Zion couldn’t pry his eyes from the screen as he clicked on a picture with you in it, hoping you would be tagged. You were, of course, so he clicked. Another mistake on his part.

Your username and bio were both different. Even though he hadn’t visited your profile in a while, he did remember the main details of it. Zion repeated his earlier actions, examining your page this time. There were posts of yourself. You and your dog. You and your family. You and this new group of friends he had never seen until now. You and some MAN? You and this man hugging, holding hands, kissing, traveling, eating out together? You and Zion used to tell each other about everything, and you had certainly never mentioned him before. You People aren’t supposed to move on this fast. Hell, Zion hadn’t even moved on. He still listened to the playlist you two had created together. He still dreamed about you. He still woke up with the lingering touches of you on his body as if you had been beside him moments before. He still had late-night venting sessions with Nick as he sniffled and wiped his teary face after genuinely expressing what he was never able to tell you face-to-face.

But now, here you were. You had completely evolved from the person Zion knew almost four months ago. You weren’t the same girl who posted simple photos of herself in cute, comfortable outfits captioned with inspirational quotes, or wholesome reviews of the new Greek mythology book you had bought at your favorite Barnes and Noble. This was some girl who had grown to almost a million followers in just three months. This was some girl who posted pointless photos of her newest bottle of wine or Hennessey; some girl whose wardrobe would alternate between Burberry pantsuits and Louboutin heels, to Adidas tracksuits and air force ones, to what could very well be some bundle of strings Fashion Nova tries to pass off as a dress. This new girl — this new you — was copacetic, thriving, and glowing. You were happy with this seemingly very outgoing of people who the old you would’ve never thought about fraternizing with. Worse of all, the new you appeared to be enjoying life with some new guy, a guy that wasn’t Zion. He’s a complete mess without you laying next to him at 2 in the morning and you were supposed to be the same. Zion was supposed to have the same crippling effect on you as you did on him.

Apparently, Zion had been sitting in his whirlwind of thoughts long enough for his phone to lock. He pulled himself out of his trance and made his only decent decision of the day. He went to find Nick, knowing he would still be awake and available to examine whatever emotional baggage Zion had this time. He told Nick about his earlier revelations (leaving out the part about your apparent love interest). “Why don't you just talk to her, bro? Tell her how you actually feel.” weren't the words he expected to hear. He didn't know what to expect, honestly.

As Zion laid in his bed he picked up his phone with shaky hands. When he unlocked it, he felt another tug at his heartstrings, forgetting that his phone had locked on a gorgeous post of your beaming smile while he was in a daze earlier. The time I'm his phone read 1:46 A.M. He didn't want to call you. You might not pick up. But he wanted an immediate response. Zion needed validation right now. He silently prayed that your number hadn't changed along with everything else during your productive time period. He opened his messages and clicked on your name; ’y/n💛’. Zion smiled to himself as he looked at the last messages sent between the two of you. You had been sending memes back and forth, with the last message before the hiatus being three emojis expressing your enjoyment.

Zion pondered for a few moments on what to type. ’Yo y/n it's me.’ ’Hey it's me, Zion.’ ’Hey y/n we haven't talked in a while.’ He wasted a good twenty minutes overthinking, typing, and erasing potential conversation starters. Then he just decided to pour out what was left of his heart. Fuck it.

He didn't expect you to reply quickly, but he wanted you to, so Zion kept his phone unlocked and open to your messages as he waited. He had peeked two minutes after hitting send, but he didn't notice it then. Zion let five more anxious minutes pass before checking again. He almost didn't notice it that time, but somehow he managed to spot it.

The small subscript under his message. ’Read’

Zion didn't know if it was him being delirious with fatigue or the actual fact of you acknowledging but ignoring him, but his breathing got short and shaky and his tears started to roll. It was finally happening. That void feeling in his chest — in his heart —, that place where special memories of you were kept, had finally drawn him in and suffocated him with the realization that you didn't want him anymore. You no longer needed Zion to bring you the pleasures of life. For all he knows now, you never really did.

#prettymuch #prettymuch beanz #zion kuwonu #austin porter #brandon arreaga #edwin honoret #nick mara #blurbs

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agrothereutes · 4 years

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So, I’m working on a human Scavengers thing, and as usual, I am obligated to overthink everything. This is part 1/3. I started to organize it but gave up. Everything else is completely unedited, including speech mannerisms, redundant content, etc.

Crankcase - He's from the southern-central US, somewhere like Texas. He has a gravelly voice with a southern accent. He *always* wears flannels. If it's too hot outside, he'll wear a plain tank top with a flannel tied around his waist. He's a bit on the chunky side, which makes him great for the hugs and cuddles he pretends he doesn't like. He complains a lot, but is secretly very soft. Has frown lines, most likely. He curses the most, out of the group.

Krok - Either an albino or has vitiligo; always wears a hat and facemask because of it. Wears nothing but hoodies and sweatpants.

Spinister - A native american (remember to decide from what region!) with very long hair, which reaches down to about his waist.

spinister is... a native american. not sure which tribe. i will have to do research on that because im... i know nothing about native americans, i will be honest. um, he's got long, black hair like... down to his fucking waist long. you know, that man has some long hair. and itll be tied up, in, like, a ponytail or a bun or something, right? so, you know, its not always in the way. he also looks very intimidating, like, it's kinda like how someone has a resting bitch face, instead of expressions coming to a rest on "i wanna fucking murder you", its more like "i have the ability to murder you". but he's actually very cheerful! smiles a lot, but, you know, if you first see him, you're like "holy shit that man can and will murder me", right?

misfire is either, like, central east-coast american frat boy, or an australian. one of those two. hes like alpacalamamama's, um, human misfire. very messy hair, he's supposed to wear glasses because he cant see for fucking shit. uh, but, he doesnt. they don't [unintelligible] they're not cool.

fulcrum... so this apparently is sorta different from the way others see fulcrum, but i see fulcrum as a black man. and, you know, he's... whats the word... understandably skeptical. he's like, a war veteran or something, who deserted from whatever army. um, [unintelligible] a group of five random fucking people, one of which almost immediately dies, who are all dating, like [noise of disbelief] what kind of fucking world does he live in? right?

oh, they all need fashion senses.

misfire wears anything neon/bright. like, classic gays' fashion except nothing with flowers, and nothing plaid. eyeburning geometric patterns? absolutely. solid bright pink tshirt? fuck yeah! 80s synthwave shit? fuck it, why not.

the only dark things misfire will wear is like a full fucking adidas tracksuit. he just thinks its cool.

i dont fucking know what spinister would wear. something. he wears clothes.

now, flywheels' is, okay so fulcrum doesnt know him very well. and, of course, hes not really the focus or whatever. but ill still develop him cause im a nice person! he grew up in, im gonna say a very religious town in... i wanna say northern virginia but that would make him extremely racist, so! we're not doing that. further north than virginia. i dont know, a town in, like, the suburbs of new york state or something. pretty far north, maybe canada. small religious town. he wanted to go to college so that he could, um, study theology or whatever the fuck, and like, become a priest or some shit. but that didnt work out cause he didnt have the money. uh, so instead he got himself a bunch of boyfriends.

he and crankcase, [unintelligible] never had a very good relationship. crankcase is... an athiest. not the type of athiest thats like, "god is not real and if you think so, i will actively refute you". more like "i just dont think god is a thing" kind of athiest, and doesnt force it on others. isnt actually too cynical about it, believe it or not. hes like okay, fuck it, believe what you wanna believe, right? um, but he also curses a lot and. dirty jokes are crankcase's thing. those, and, like, cynical jokes are the *only* ones hell make. and flywheels does not like that, understandably.

flywheels is also one of those people whos like gay and homophobic. usually people dont quite understand how that works. its like you are attracted to men but grew up in a society that doesnt allow being attracted to men. hes like that, cause you know, he sorta learns to accept himself just about the time he fucking dies. you know, he was raised in a town where you were going to marry a woman from the next town over and, you know, who was also gonna go to church with you on sundays, you would have one to three kids, and you would all go to church on sundays, and you would only have sex once youre married, and things like that. um, so, especially living... south, cause these guys are living in central america. i dont know west or east, but, like, straight down fucking center. like no north, no south. west and east i dont really know, ive only ever been to the coasts. i cant really talk about, like, central us states. i dont know what the fuck their deal is. so, yeah.

god, how do they all fucking meet?

ok, so, krok's about the only one with money. either he was actually sensible enough to like, start saving up as soon as he got a job, and like, never went to college, or something, or like, he was born into the upper middle class or somewhere around that range and just, like, inherited money. so hes the one that pays for the house. absolutely. he is the one that goes grocery shopping, he is the one that deals with anything related to finance.

crankcase has... a job. its either something on the night shift or he works from home.

flywheels is either *going* to college, and has a part-time job at a restaurant or something, or is *not* going to college and has a part-time job at a restaurant or something.

misfire has no job currently. dont know if that will ever change.

krok probably has, like, two jobs. um, probably some, like, stay-at-home thing and then one where he goes in and actually does shit.

spinister, of course, works as a surgeon, and is the only person to have actually gone fully to college and graduated, so, like, he's an actual doctor. right? he's got a whole-ass phd. right? or like whatever the fuck. so hes a surgeon. right? of course, still has hella adhd.

misfire probably has adhd too, but to a lesser extent, and with differing symptoms, than spinister, and undiagnosed.

krok has depression. flywheels probably has depression. fulcum almost definitely has depression. yeah.

so, fulcrum, hmm... especially if were doing a modern setting with like, 2020 in america, and this horrible fucking situation, like, minus pandemic maybe, i dont know. fulcrum was too poor to go to college, which is what he wanted to do, something like [unintelligible] or something, i dont know. i dont know what he would fucking do! he was, working on, like, cyberforming a world, so i guess, like, some technical career. scientist or something. but he was too poor, so he was like, fuck it! ill go to military school. ill join the military. so he joined the military, and ended up being like, probably doing border duty for like, mexico or something. he was like wow! my country really treats people like fucking shit! and you know, especially when, um, police start getting violent in riots and stuff. he's like, fuck this shit, and deserts. um, and, like travels with like stolen rations, up into, like central us, where he finds a house full of gay motherfuckers who decide to take him in.

#please ignore this thanks <3 #these vibes are rancid i KNOW they are

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queenannedoll · 4 years

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17 questions

Thanks for the tag @magnetklaue <3

under the cut because it´s pretty long!

rules? answer 17 questions then tag 17 people

nickname? Ari

zodiac? capricorn sun, aries moon, sagittarius rising

height? 160 cm or 5´3´´ for the heathens

hogwarts house? cant we just let this hogwarts house thing die...it´s slytherin btw

last thing i googled? "unterrock auf englisch” hjfdgjbgk trilingual problems

song stuck in my head? i´m in a TXT mood so right now it´s “can´t you see me”

number of followers? more than 500 which is shocking bc this blog is extremely random

amount of sleep? i try to go for 7-8 hours every night but i dont always manage

lucky number? i think 22? there are a lot of 22s in my birthdate

dream job? curator of a japanese dolls museum which is also my house

wearing? adidas tracksuit but pretend it´s yohji yamamoto

favourite song? atm it´s “run away” by TXT but it´s ever changing, also “there´s a light that never goes out” by the smiths

favourite instrument? shamisen and koto! i can´t play anything tho

aesthetic? prussian king obsessed with chinoiserie but on a budget

favourite author? for modern literature it´s definitely donna tartt, then i love the classics and especially tolstoj

random? i used to do russian martial arts but i had to stop and i regret it bc apparently being punched in the stomach is the only way for me to get killer abs

IDK 17 PEOPLE so i´m gonna tag @mauloveskpop @joosgf @zizigoms @mihyon @gusurabbit and whoever wants to do it! also if you dont pls ignore it

#tagged #me

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1800pizzagirl · 5 years

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Keeping up with the Kardashians, Season 17, Recap #3

I am skipping watching the Emmy’s to spend my Sunday night with the show most likely sweep all categories at the Emmy’s, Keeping up with the Kardashians. I did see that Kendall is wearing a latex turtleneck and everytime I see this much latex, I feel physically uncomfortable at the idea of how sweaty she must be - like jumping in and out of a vat of oily beer cheese. This is my second recap today, feel free to visit my very late recap of episode #2.

This week’s episode starts at Kimora Lee Simon’s Korean spa where the Kardashian sisters get their “anus scrubbed”. I’ve had many scrubs at Korean Spas, they’re one of my favorite things in the world, you literally come out of there feeling as smooth as a baby seal. I would recommend this to Kendall tonight after she peels herself out of that latex turtleneck. I’m assuming they were trying to keep their modesty, but you get these scrubs totally naked, no tiny thong to cover up your business!

This season, Khloe is still dealing with the fallout from Tristan cheating with Jordyn Woods. At Kim’s house, over some printed out Pinterest board redesign of Chi’s room, Khloe tells Kim that she is going to therapy with Tristan to help with co-parenting. Kim thinks that her and Jordyn should have a chat, as Jordyn is (was) Kylie’s best friend. This is the definition of the idiom “you don’t shit where you eat”!

After being robbed at gunpoint in Paris and hearing of armed robberies in Hidden Hills, Kim has decided to step up her security. This means that when Kris Jenner waltzes into her backyard for a “daily visit” to get a “bottle of water”, she is now stopped by security. I feel like if I was one of the Kardashian/Jenner’s, I’d be like “MY FACE IS MY ID!” I can’t even imagine how expensive Kim’s security detail is, which is probably why she launched Skims and her new makeup collaboration within one week.

Last season I saw Khloe wrangle Kourtney’s kids as she slept during the entirety of a 15-hour flight to Bali, so I have an idea of Kourtney’s style of parenting. I’m not a parent and I am super lenient to my cats so I am in no position to have any say in this, but it is super uncomfortable to see her children hit her. Mason got in trouble at school for threatening to beat up a kid at school over a ball. This seems like typical kid stuff but Kourtney told him that he could go to a playdate afterwards and Scott disagreed. I wonder if it’s because the nanny quit and she had to do a cryo session with Khloe? I think it’s interesting that Kourtney is allowing for this to be filmed and open for public criticism because parenting can be a really touchy subject!

In an attempt to talk about the elephant in the room, Khloe decides to take a day trip to Napa with Kylie. In the plane, Khloe and Kylie talk about Stormi’s 40th birthday, and Kris starts to cry as she realizes that she won’t be alive to see it. This very real moment realization of our mortality and inevitable death really struck me and is still making me feel uncomfortable. Khloe lightened up the moment saying that she would be there with her face set in stone and dripping in Kris Jenner diamonds.

Keeping up with the somber mood, Kris said that she would like to be buried in a marble wine casket. This seems like a great idea to me, so she can be rolled into Stormi’s 40th birthday party and be there in spirit.

During a session of “EmSculpting”, Kourtney complains to Kim about her security. I’m curious as to what all of these lasers do, do they actually work? It’s not like I’ll ever have the money to find out.

Back in Napa, Khloe and Kylie have their heart to heart about Jordyn while Kris is off looking at churches or something. Kylie is chilled as a cucumber and says she is in a good place right now - I feel like nothing about this situation is resolved (as in, we’ll continue to hear about it this season) but they had to get this moment on camera to move on. After their talk, they jumped on some ATV’s and rode around a winery. This doesn’t sound safe, but there are no rules when you’re rich at a winery.

In celebration of Foodgod legally changing his name to Foodgod at the Kardashian’s favorite eating spot, Nobu, Kourtney shares with her family that her nanny quit after Penelope scratched her in the face. Corey, Kris’ boyfriend, said that if Penelope scratched him in the face he would “whoop” her ass. This not only sets off Scott, but also makes both Kim and Kris stress eat their cake. I feel like it’s still unclear, but it seems like Corey MEANT that if he was Penelope’s parent, he would spank her but he was not backing down from Scott questioning his comment. It seems to me like Corey is the type of person that is never wrong, and once again, after stress eating her slice of cake, Kris ends up in tears.

The next day, Foodgod is picking up Kim to get froyo, but first we see him complain about the security. There is so much complaining about Kim’s security in this episode, I wonder if something is about to happen? While on their way back from froyo, Kim receives a frantic call from Khloe that her security tackled Kris Jenner. She pulls up this CTV video which shows Kris, in a black Adidas tracksuit get tackled. Kim freaks out and runs to her mommy on a stretcher only to find out that she was being pranked. This is the kind of somber ass prank that would piss me off so much. Who knows if Kim was in on it, but that was just too much! Who does that?

The episode ends with some home footage of Kourtney and Corey talking about the incident at Nobu. Again, it’s unclear to me what he meant, but he reassured Kourtney that he wouldn’t hurt her children. Kourtney and Scott talk about their checklist chart and their parenting style to round off an episode where they seem like they let their children run wild. Until next week, XOXO my five faithful readers.

#keeping up with the kardashians #keeping up with the kardashians season 17 #KUWTK #recap #reality tv #kim kardashian

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akvtsuki-ari · 6 years

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Arizona’s

Warnings; none really, swearing but this is a goofy fluff fic smh

Length; 1.4k

Summary: College!Reader and Canon!Spencer (like season 3 spence) meet in a convience store and Reader educates him on the beauty of the 99 cent cans

Authors Note: this idea is so dumb but I had it and if you don’t know what an arizona is their these big ass cans of juice that go for 99 cents and theyre incredibly and so good but spence didn’t know what twilight was and i thought this would be a cute idea and i d k it’s literally 5am and I’ve been itching to publish smth okay bye

This convenience store was more than sanctuary at this rate, this convenience store was home.

It was owned by a nice man in his middle ages, and every morning he greeted you the same way, and everyday you came in for the same thing. A 99 cent arizona and a a triplet of sweets of your choice, always the same routine.

Why? Well, short answer, college. You were in college and college was hard and you passed out first semester because you apparently had low blood sugar but you didn’t know cause you didn’t have time to make an appointment even though your insurance covered it, and you were pretty prepared to die cause at least you didn’t have to pay student loans and especially because you didn’t have to deal with fucking online submissions because goddamn you loathed those submissions so much -

Anyways.

You were there every morning because you needed sugar and it was too early for caffeine, so you had a lot of sugar and yes it was 3am because that's the most prime to do something like that.

Most of the time you were in there, if it wasn’t a weekend it was mostly late night condom runs or other random everyday shit people needed, but there was one person who was here every so often who bought a ton of sugar and coffee, but you managed to always see them at the same time you did. A guy with brown hair and big eyes, sorta looked like you’d break him if you were mean to him but at the same time he wouldn’t care. A little confusing.

It was odd, sure, but this was a store that was right smack dab in the middle of some apartments and residential places and a road to campus and frankly, you didn’t care about it. He could be buying vape juice and dog food to use together and you wouldn’t blink an eyelash, it’s none of your business. You knew better than to care

And today was another one of your early morning runs, immediately you pick out some random hostess item in the sum of threes and your an arizona and before you turn away immediately to the door, you hear a voice. A really nerdy voice, but a voice,

“Exscuse me,” the Ominous Voice utters, you turn. It’s the brown haired boy, you decide his name is doe boy. You’re tired.

“Uh, yeah?,” you ask tiredly, a softness in your voice. He frowns at your lack of enthusiasm

“No, sorry, its just that - well every time your here you get those drinks? And i’m wondering if they have caffeine in them cause according to my doctor my anxiety will worsen with all the coffee I drink, so I was just curious if that was like an alternative of some kind?,” he asks nervously. You tilt your head, very baffled, because frankly, you were in the least intimidating state you’d ever maybe been in, you were wearing some adidas tracksuit and you didn’t even bother to wash your face.

“You’re fine, and no, no caffeine, but sugar does give you a burst of energy though it’s not quite the same as caffeine, I try to avoid coffee for my anxiety also so this is where I end up,” you reply.

“Oh, well, sugar does technically spike your heart rate though it won’t necessarily wake you up in the same a stimulant like caffeine or taurine would - I’m rambling sorry… what is it then..? That you’re drinking?,” he asks again politely. Your jaw drops.

“It’s.. an Arizona?,” you reply carefully.

“Isn’t that a state?,” he responds. You’re shocked, truly in disbelief at the fact he has no idea what an Arizona is.

“You like fruit punch, doe boy?,” you ask, he seems a little stunned. He repeats the petname under his breath.

“Uh.. I guess? And the names Spencer,” he says shyly. You nodded and yawned,

“Cool, come with me Spencer,” you reply. The man who owns the store greets you, checking you out quietly and wishing you a good day.

Spencer follows you outside, ducking his head down and only looking up to admire you, he notices your features in their distinction, and places his eyes on the backpack on your back, wondering what could be in it.

You lead Spencer out into the parking lot and take a seat on the curb, patting the spot next to you. You look up to Spencer with a challenging look in your eyes, and Spencer reluctantly takes a seat next to you. You pass him the drink, and he stares at it with a look of confusion. You shake your head and open yours

“Cmon, Spencer, was it? Take a sip,” you instruct. Clumsily he opens it up and takes a long sip, eyes widening with excitement. He laughs

“Wow! This is.. really good. How come it's only 99 cents?? That’s weird, that doesn’t seem right at all -” he seems like he's on the way to start a rant but you stop him.

“That’s kinda the magic, kid,” you reply laughing.

“Kid?,” he replies skeptically. You roll your eyes.

“You’ve got a baby face,” you say nonchalantly, Spencer smiles.

“At least now I know why you buy these...” he says, pausing. You never did introduce yourself.

“Y/N,” you finish. He nods.

“At least I know why you buy this stuff, Y/N,” he repeats.

“What's with you and your sugar and coffee then?,” you ask. He giggles, and your heart lowkey melts but you didn’t let it show. Damn when did his giggle get so cute? Did boys actually giggle like that?

“Well I - I actually work for the FBI? I’m a profiler, behavior analysis unit at Quantico and -” he’s cut off by your laughter.

“You? You work at the FBI? Oh my god, wait - your cute ass HAS A FUCKING GUN? Oh, my god thats - thats goddamn hysterical shit -” you can’t breathe because the sheer idea of that makes you wheeze. He was too cute for a gun, way too cute. A baby.

“Hey,” he pouts. You laugh again, wiping a tear from your eye.

“No, no, I’m sure your great at what you do,” you reply, softness in your tone.

“The coffees for when we go on cases for our jet, I have to buy it usually but I do it at 3am so I don’t forget it for the next day,” he replies

“You guys have a fucking jet?” you say genuinely surprised.

“Pretty cool, right?,” he smiles and asks. You nod vigorously

“Thats fucking sick,” you say back. The two of you sit for a while, Spencer sitting and taking a sip, eyes boring into your bag. You look at him and smile at all his wonderence.

“It’s a skateboard,” you say to him, he’s startled a bit by it but hums in understanding.

“That’s pretty neat,” he says softly, what a fucking nerd. A cute ass nerd, a really cute one. Damn it, you were mad at yourself for all this lovey dovey feeling shit.

“Whenever you get some time off from your super cool FBI job, I can teach you how to ride one,” you say, shooting your shot desperately because this Spencer was making you feel emotional feelings and it felt like the right thing to do.

Spencer blushes, looking up at you, clearly not expecting your offer.

“Sound like a date?,” you say biting your lip.

“Uh, yea. Sounds.. Sounds good,” he says shyly, you groan and he looks afraid.

“Stop being so cute, please I’m not gonna be able to sleep if this all I see before my 6am class,” you whine. Spencer blushes,

“Uh.. I’m sorry,” he says meekly.

“Oh my, GOD,” you say back, shoving him playfully. He laughs

“What! I said sorry!,” he repeats. You shake your head in faux disappointment

“You can show me how sorry you are by being another Arizona,” you remark to him again, he turns to look at you and affections clear in his face as he smiles at you.

What an awfully strange way to wake up for work, he had to admit. Mostly curious on a way to wake up, ending up on a date with a cute girl was out of his expectation. But he didn’t mind. Plus he know nows of whatever these delicious drinks are, so he can’t say he can complain. A good morning, but a strange one.

“Deal,” he replies.

And the sun makes a point in rising.

taglist: @cynbx @jhope-jkill

#spencer reid imagine #spencer reid self insert #spencer reid fluff #criminal minds imagine #criminal minds self insert #criminal minds #spencer reid #matthew grey gubler #genre: fluff

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batsysims · 7 years

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100 QUESTIONS NO ONE ASKS

I was tagged by @tickledsims ty ily!!

1. DO YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR CLOSET DOORS OPEN OR CLOSED? CLOSED when i was younger my little sister had a baby doll that would talk on its own at night and we called it the demon baby and hooooly shit

2. DO YOU TAKE THE SHAMPOOS AND CONDITIONER BOTTLES FROM HOTELS? i dont take those bc my hair cant take cheap hair products but i do take the soaps!!

3. DO YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR SHEETS TUCKED IN OR OUT? i put the mattress cover sheet thingy on my bed but i dont use an actual sheet :/

4. HAVE YOU STOLEN A STREET SIGN BEFORE? nah lol

5. DO YOU LIKE TO USE POST-IT NOTES? YES i love using office supplies i could spend all day at staples omg

6. DO YOU CUT OUT COUPONS BUT THEN NEVER USE THEM? no lol but il save the lil receipt coupons and find them in my wallet months after they expire

7. WOULD YOU RATHER BE ATTACKED BY A BIG BEAR OR A SWARM OF BEES? hhhhh bees

8. DO YOU HAVE FRECKLES? yep!! i love them its why im scared to use foundation i dont wanna lose em

9. DO YOU ALWAYS SMILE FOR PICTURES? i either smile or if my moms takin the pic il make a stupid face

10. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE? i have terrible road rage...... um........... i also hate it when men interrupt me i just walk away at that point

11. DO YOU EVER COUNT YOUR STEPS WHEN YOU WALK? yeah i pretty much count everything

12. HAVE YOU PEED IN THE WOODS? i dont think so??

13. HAVE YOU EVER POOPED IN THE WOODS? def not lmao

14. DO YOU EVER DANCE EVEN IF THERES NO MUSIC PLAYING? i have an eating dance, a drinking dance, and a video game playing dance hahaa

15. DO YOU CHEW YOUR PENS AND PENCILS? yes ugh it annoys me but i cant stop

16. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU SLEPT WITH THIS WEEK? at LEAST 0

17. WHAT SIZE IS YOUR BED? i think its a single? a single or a twin either way im miserable send help

18. WHAT IS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? ummm probably You by Weird Milk?? its the most recent song i added on spotify so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

19. IS IT OK FOR GUYS TO WEAR PINK? yeah def unless its one of those “real men wear pink shirts” like just.... stop

20. DO YOU STILL WATCH CARTOONS? sometimes my sister makes me watch stevens universe?? il watch phineas and ferb too bc honestly who doesnt anime too but not always cartoon ones or w/e

21. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE MOVIE? 2001: A Space Odyssey and Daughters of the Dust come to mind

22. WHERE WOULD YOU BURY HIDDEN TREASURE IF YOU HAD SOME? u kno where ;) no how big is the treasure?? if its a lil bit id put it in that drawer under the oven bc my family never uses that but if its BIG TREASURE id hide it in the backyard of the last house i lived in bc a. nobody lives there now and 2. its totally overrun with green bc of like two floods

23. WHAT DO YOU DRINK WITH DINNER? water! only water ever

24. WHAT DO YOU DIP A CHICKEN NUGGET IN? honey if theyre mcnuggets but other than that i use honey mustard!

25. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? chicky parm

26. WHAT MOVIES COULD YOU WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND STILL LOVE? honestly Inception is my feel-good movie

27. LAST PERSON, YOU KISSED/KISSED YOU? a lil babu

28. WERE YOU EVER A BOY/GIRL SCOUT? i was in girl scouts much longer than i ever wanted to be lmao WISH i coulda done BOY SCOUTS

29. WOULD YOU EVER STRIP OR POSE NUDE IN A MAGAZINE? if cash is involved absolutely

30. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WROTE A LETTER TO SOMEONE ON PAPER? aboutttt three months ago!

31. CAN YOU CHANGE THE OIL ON A CAR? no but i can watch

32. EVER GOTTEN A SPEEDING TICKET? when i first got my license yea :( 15 yr olds are dum

33. EVER RAN OUT OF GAS? twice! very good memories

34. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE KIND OF SANDWICH? egg salad gud

35. BEST THING TO EAT FOR BREAKFAST? the all star breakfast at waffle house yasssss

36. WHAT IS YOUR USUAL BEDTIME? honestly like 9 since i always have to wake up at 7 in the am but il stay up til 11 if i can

37. ARE YOU LAZY? absolutely when have ACTIVE ppl done ANYTHING

38. WHEN YOU WERE A KID, WHAT DID YOU DRESS UP AS FOR HALLOWEEN? i was usually a cat bc i never could find a costume i liked smh but when i was 2 i went as winnie the pooh lmao

39. WHAT IS YOUR CHINESE ASTROLOGICAL SIGN? ox!

40. HOW MANY LANGUAGES CAN YOU SPEAK? just english but im tryna learn spanish and japanese and im fluent in french if a two year olds speech patterns can be considered as such

41. DO YOU HAVE ANY MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS? nah

42. WHICH ARE BETTER: LEGOS OR LINCOLN LOGS? LEGOS lincoln logs are big with nostalgia thoooo

43. ARE YOU STUBBORN? with dumb shit yeah but i usually just dont care enough abt stuff to deal

44. WHO IS BETTER: LENO OR LETTERMAN? theyre both old idc

45. EVER WATCH SOAP OPERAS? no lol

46. ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS? not really tbh i like the adrenaline

47. DO YOU SING IN THE CAR? if im alone!! nobody deserves to hear that

48. DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER? nahhh

49. DO YOU DANCE IN THE CAR? when im in the drive thru haaaa

50. EVER USED A GUN? id like to go to a shooting range some time but ive never used one im also very anti gun so i probs would never buy one unless it was a cute lil glock i can handle well

51. LAST TIME YOU GOT A PORTRAIT TAKEN BY A PHOTOGRAPHER? st patricks day it wasnt technically for me tho

52. DO YOU THINK MUSICALS ARE CHEESY? not in general but when ppl start obsessing over a certain one for months on end abt a certain time period and certain performers and certain songs and certain people of history i start wanting ppl to die

53. IS CHRISTMAS STRESSFUL? YEAH I NEVER HAVE MONEY WTF

54. EVER EAT A PIEROGI? my sisters obsessed with them so yea but never like. authentic polish potato pockets or anything just a frozen box of em

55. FAVORITE TYPE OF FRUIT PIE? apple?? im not rly into pie tbh

56. OCCUPATIONS YOU WANTED TO BE WHEN YOU WERE A KID? ive wanted to go into law enforcement/criminology my whole life!! for a sec i wanted to be a firefighter, a journalist/writer/poet, and some sort of artist but u know how kids are

57. DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? i tried to find that clip from malcolm in the middle for like ten mins but i couldnt yea

58. EVER HAVE A DEJA-VU FEELING? doesnt everyone tho?

59. DO YOU TAKE A VITAMIN DAILY? no im a bad adult

60. DO YOU WEAR SLIPPERS? nah

61. DO YOU WEAR A BATH ROBE? im not rich!!

62. WHAT DO YOU WEAR TO BED? usually just my undies but when im living with other people il wear a soft shirt and my dc heroes pajama bottoms ayyy

63. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCERT? ive never been to one! i was gonna go see metallica in baltimore but i moved before i could smh

64. WALMART, TARGET, OR KMART? walmart sry targets cool but too much money!!! i go there for home things tho does kmart still exist

65. NIKE OR ADIDAS? ADIDAS ive been trying to get a full adidas tracksuit for YEARS

66. CHEETOS OR FRITOS? fritos! i like the super hot cheetos tho

67. PEANUTS OR SUNFLOWER SEEDS? peanutsssss

68. EVER HEAR OF THE GROUP TRES BIEN? Nope but they must be good im keepin @tickledsims response bc it made me laugh

69. EVER TAKE DANCE LESSONS? when i was a lil babu i took ballet and gymnastics a lil later

70. IS THERE A PROFESSION YOU PICTURE YOUR FUTURE SPOUSE DOING? i hope to never have a spouse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

71. CAN YOU CURL YOUR TONGUE? yep

72. EVER WON A SPELLING BEE? ive actually never even had a spelling bee im sure theyre a myth

73. HAVE YOU EVER CRIED BECAUSE YOU WERE SO HAPPY? i think so??

74. OWN ANY RECORD ALBUMS? nah

75. OWN A RECORD PLAYER? nahhhhh

76. DO YOU REGULARLY BURN INCENSE? no but i had a roommate who did i fell in love

77. EVER BEEN IN LOVE? yeah ok lol so one time when i was a sophomore my french teacher had to use a substitute teacher and hes the reason i believe in love at first sight im STILL in love with him wtf ive also had a bf haha im hilarious

78. WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN CONCERT? i dont really do concerts so i couldnt say but i think matd would be fun!!

79. WHAT WAS THE LAST CONCERT YOU SAW? oh my god

80. HOT TEA OR COLD TEA? hot!!!!

81. TEA OR COFFEE? coffee!!!!!!

82. SUGAR COOKIES OR SNICKERDOODLES? i dont rly like either but i prefer snickerdoodles over sugar

83. CAN YOU SWIM WELL? i can only do that weird frog swim i forget what its called so no im shit at it

84. CAN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH WITHOUT HOLDING YOUR NOSE? ye

85. ARE YOU PATIENT? if im able to distract myself?? it also depends on the severity of what im waiting on i guess

86. DJ OR BAND AT A WEDDING? probs a band i guess i dont rly think abt that kinda stuff sry

87. EVER WON A CONTEST? when i was four i won a coloring contest at the ice cream store

88. HAVE YOU EVER HAD PLASTIC SURGERY? nope im poor 89. WHICH ARE BETTER: BLACK OR GREEN OLIVES? both are good!

90. CAN YOU KNIT OR CROCHET? i can knit but i cant crochet

91. BEST ROOM FOR A FIREPLACE? fckn bathroom

92. DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED? not rly unless its a partnership longlasting romance stresses me out especially with financial responsibility etc

93. IF MARRIED, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN MARRIED? -20 years

94. WHO WAS YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH? my high school boyfriend hahaaa h,,,,

95. DO YOU CRY AND THROW A FIT UNTIL YOU GET YOUR OWN WAY? im an adult sry

96. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? 1!

97. DO YOU WANT KIDS? nope! lmao i love her tho

98. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? red but i also like many others??? idk

99. DO YOU MISS ANYONE RIGHT NOW? ummm not rly?? im not close enough to anyone to miss them and those i am close to im able to hang with

100. WHO ARE YOU GOING TO TAG TO DO THIS TAG NEXT? god uhhh if you havent done it already and want to, @dreambot @nebula-simms @ellowynsims and @pixelbloom

#tag challenge #nonsims #ty lol that was fun

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keybums · 7 years

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To no one’s surprise, Kim Kibum is high.

No! Not that kind of high--Kibum may be an advocate for living on the edge, but jail was, well, a little much-- but the legal kind of high. Doped up on caffeine and last night’s escapades; slurping his weight in caffeine in hopes of staying lucid enough to remember the choreo to their retro hit, the lyrics, his name, and as of present- to answer the interviewers questions with much vigor. Caffeine has always been his primary lover during the skip of schedules, but as of late Kibum and his beaus relationship had become rather toxic--Romeo and Juliet toxic. He couldn’t mull through the day without 3 square meals catered around an Americano and yea- it’s unhealthy, but the results were really really good. And so far, he’s proud of himself for every broadcast had been spot on and every interview fluid enough to create more buzz than his self administered half-hawk during Lucifer era. What a time to be alive!

The clock ticks to the tune of the incoming hour--9AM-- and quite frankly Kibum feels like he’s going to die. Lethargy riddled feline eyes, curling svelte finger tips loose around the girth of a Styrofoam cup--Styrofoam, despite having ordered an iced Americanofor kicks--it’s half empty when he so desperately needed it to be half full. Fingers are wrapping tentatively around the girth of a Styrofoam cup, contents half empty when he needed it to be half full. His manager seems to read his mind, read between the lines of thin, lowered, apprehensive eyes that say Kibum won’t make it to the hour without a refill of the legal drug, because he’s swift in getting the idol a refill before the interviewer arrives.

The first question is light -- is easy. Interviews are easy. Easy as pie.

Maybe because the art of conversation was something he had mastered a long time ago, but only now able to showcase to a large audience via this comeback allotting him with a rather surplus of solo interviews-more than he expected, honestly. His members (take away Taemin, add OnJongHo) were just as good as he when it came to answering questions. Each member cool calm and concise, so much so that Kibum could easily blend into the unmarked cafe’s puke-colored interior(really.

“Because SHINee is a contemporary band, we strive to create new trends and rework old ones.” The word ‘contemporary’ is emphasized, a quality of the quintet that Kibum equally loved to drive home and be apart of.

“In addition, our concept this comeback is a ‘retro’ pop song with new jack swing elements where we reinterpret specific elements of that era, but in a very SHINee way. And while many other artist have pursued a ‘retro’ concept spanning from the 80s to late 90s, we wanted to do so in a new and distinct characteristics. Hence why we released a limited edition cassette version and filmed the MV in a way that’s the very embodiment of the era down to the editing.” His fondness of his group shones through a show of pearly whites, the kind he’s oh-so conscious of because the back of his hand presses to it before allowing him to continue. “As SHINee, we’ve always strive to fully incorporate details within our concept. For example, many may not notice, but the jewelry we wore are actual relics from the 90s. I even utilized some of my own wardrobe during shooting. When we chose the concept, we met with our staff numerous time to decide if ‘1of1′ was a concept we should try. Although we ultimately chose it, we knew how dangerous this choice was, so we are really happy to see everyone enjoying it so much.”

These days he feels very much like SHINee’s PR person. Ever since the word got out that he played a hand in their last concert’s direction and costumes, interviewers always approached him about SHINee with much more interest- as if he were... vital to SHINee’s conception. In an afterthought, he adds, “In the future I want to create fun music that is public friendly but unique as well.”

And then modesty takes hold of his features, embedded so deep within his countenance that not even the humbled smile that’s stretched around his teeth can hide it. This was... different. Sure he had just concisely outlined the quintet’s mission and concept- but he had done so as 5, speaking for all 5 of them, not just himself. Speaking for his group was autonomous by now but speaking on his solo activities and achievements (ones that were miles different from SHINee ones), though, were a different story; he was still getting use to it. A fairy tale as Kibum was but an oyster revealing his pearl to the public and hoping not to get it stolen.

“In Drinking Solo, I play a charismatic character named ‘Kim Kibum’ just like me! Anyways, he’s a 9th grade civil servant examinee who takes life one step at a time. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth so obviously he prefers the finer things in life--finer things like his penchant for luxury tracksuits that he finances with his mother’s credit card.Thinks a noyangjin Paris Hilton.” The interviewer must have been thinking ‘that sounds just like you’, but she doesn’t interject, instead lets him finish- something Kibum appreciates.

“From the beginning I wanted to make the character I portray as realistic as possible. When I began acting in musicals I learned that embodying the character in a convincing way is just as important as portraying that character. I think the more realistic a character is, the more relate able they will be. And that’s what I want to show- a relate able character that reminds viewers of someone around them.” Ironic he says so, since the character was written with himself in mind. Ironic that he could get away with portraying himself--because the character is him after all-- he goes the extra mile to let fictional Kim Kibum live.

“ An example of me embodying my character is cutting my bangs into choppy layers, this makes Drinking Solo’s Kim Kibum memorable and also gives off the feeling that although he thinks he’s trendy--others don’t agree. On a side note, many of my friends teased at this choppy bangs style, so I think it worked? On top of that, the writer wanted to drive home how ‘trendy’ he was and wanted me to act the part by wearing a Gucci tracksuit. But that’s unrealistic, right? A truly fashionable person wouldn’t just change outfits regardless of the situation just because they can, they might wear several Adidas tracksuits instead.” He would know. He’s a truly fashionable person, right?

“Drinking Solo’s Kim Kibum wasn’t originally suppose to speak with satoori at first, but I really really wanted to be able to act in this accent because I felt that it fit the character, I couldn’t see him not speaking satoori. So when I went to script reading I provided two versions of my lines, one in standard accent and the other with satoori. Luckily, the writer thoroughly enjoyed my alternate script and had me translate the others.” The thought has him beaming, more so because his screen debut had been heavily praised, a feat that didn’t accompany most idol turned actor until their fifth year if ever. And ontop of that- he debuted with a character inspired by himself and was able to tweak his speaking pattern.

“Um. I, uh. Can’t say much about our other similarities without ruing future episodes, but aside from speaking in satoori and being close to our late Grandmothers...” A pause. Not awkward. But not comfortable either. Feline eyes are suddenly fluttering to the pen she uses to scribble down pieces of his winded answer. He silently wonders if she’s new, because she hardly ever seeks eye contact with him, shys away from it even.

“I feel as if he and I are more alike when I’m not working- in that I’m rather impulsive and do things without thinking. The script writer actually wrote him with me in mind, ha!” Her nod is expected and it comes as a gracefully bob of the head as if to say ‘I can tell’ and while he’s grateful for having a script writer think of him (can you believe it?) when crafting up a character, the drama hasn’t ended. The drama hadn’t shown fictional Kim Kibum’s inner layers, hadn’t show him vulnerable in his entirety. She has the wrong impression of him. Everyone does. And he forgives it. “There’s so much more that ‘Drinking Solo’s’ Kibum has to show so please anticipate him!”

#Date:11/02/17

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‘The Lightbulb Effect’

‘Lightbulb Effect' You know the one? when you get an idea or come to a realization and suddenly everything in your life makes sense? I still remember my 'Lightbulb' moment, I was 24 and was having one of my... lets call them 'Rough Weeks'. Since leaving high school (now over 10 years ago wow!) I never knew what I wanted to do, some kids grow up wanting to be Doctors, others join the forces or maybe others flitter around for years between jobs, or in my case college courses, lets go back a bit shall we...

When I was 17 I took a carpentry and joinery course, I did really well, all my work was completed I passed the first year and was on course to complete the whole qualification... what did I do? I quit 3 months from the end... foolish? perhaps although as I sit here thinking about it I cant say I regret my decision. Deep down I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do. After leaving Id always hoped Id find that 'one thing' in my life that I could pour my everything into, unfortunately that search was always blighted by a lack of self confidence, anxiety and a few bouts of depression.

Where do these issues stem from? By all means my life has not been a bad one, I've always had a roof over my head a warm bed to sleep in and food in my belly (and for this I'm very grateful). Without using it as an excuse I also come from a broken home and have had more than a few issues with my father. I dealt with it, I made the decision to see my local counsellor and after a years worth of sessions I walked out that door a stronger person and closed the book on those issues.

Between the ages of 18-24 I used to worry alot. Anxiety has always been a big part of me, people used to say that my middle name was 'Worry'. This was escalated by the witnessing of my then housemate, and best friend in a horrific car accident. At 18, and sustaining the injuries he did he is very lucky to be here now. I call him ‘the machine’ because he's a tough bastard and an inspiration and I'm so proud of everything he's achieved since the accident. Its in those moments and the years that follow that you reflect and you realise who and what is most important.

Those years of my life were not all negative. There was lots of positives, I passed my driving test (got myself a little motor), my first niece arrived, and there where many weekend nights spent at my local rock and metal club 'The Waterfront'. The floor was sticky, the ceilings would drip with perspiration and the toilets were proper grim but that place (as weird as it sounds) was home! It was my kind of music and my kind of people. From nights spent there with the gang I have nothing but fond memories, and with beers priced at £1.50 you really couldn't go wrong... well you could, because if you didn't drink your can (that's right... a can) quick enough you'd have warm beer!

So Id get up everyday I went to work and at one point rented my own apartment... you could say I had the lot, the car, the pad and money in the bank but I couldn't shake the strong desire to better myself to become a more confident outgoing person but what was it that I really wanted to do...cue lightbulb moment...

It was January 2014 it was cold and everything I hate about winter! (I'm a 28 degrees plus and blazing sunshine boy) as I mentioned before I was having one of my' Rough Weeks' a friend had given me his copy of 'Early Years The Best Of Led Zeppelin' and in anticipation of his 'What did you think'? enquiry I knew it was time to dive in. I had those useless electric heaters in my apartment... you know the ones... night storage heating, where the heat would be released gradually throughout the day? great idea! except I think mine were from the 50′s so all heat would be lost buy at least 5pm! Not ideal in the dark of winter.

So I would use this little halogen heater, that I would bring up close when I was sitting on my desktop (yep I still had a desktop in 2014) this particular night I was drinking my poison... rum on the rocks. Led Zeppelin was blasting from the speakers, now this best of Zeppelin had some classic bangers 'Whole Lotta Love' 'Communication Breakdown' 'Rock And Roll' and 'Black Dog' and then began track 8... 'Since I've Been Loving You'.

I cant really describe that moment, from the opening chords of Jimmy Pages guitar, John Bonham's drums and then of course Robert Plants wailing vocals... as cliché as it sounds there in those 7 minutes 23 seconds I was lost... I just listened... something about that piece of music got me, spoke to me and still does today (its on now as I write this) and that's when it hit me ... what couldn't I live without? what did I immerse myself in everyday? where did I go when I wanted to escape? ... cue lightbulb... MUSIC....

There with my rum, halogen heater and wearing the worlds most unflattering woolly hoodie and Adidas tracksuit bottoms (which I think were passed down from my brother, I must have stopped growing when I was 17) it all made sense... MUSIC...

Id attended numerous gigs and festivals prior to the lightbulb moment, I have some special memories from Download Festival 2009 and 2010. I met the top hat himself 'Slash', from Guns and Roses back in 2012. Slash, Myles and The Conspirators at Brixton Academy 'Apocalyptic Love Tour'. He was a true hero, me and my brother had queued in line for about an hour backstage after the show, when he came out he stood there and signed something and chatted to every single fan that had queued. My guitar plate that I had removed the prior evening 'just in case' and he signed is one of my most prized possessions. For those interested he asked 'If Id enjoyed the show?' I think my response was meant to be something resembling a sentence but I'm sure I only managed a series of noises and squeaks.

Even though this was a significant lead up to the lightbulb moment even now I look back and think why did it then take me another 2 years to decide to go for the music thing? Ever since I was a kid Id always found peace and an escape in music, I used to buy cassettes when I was a kid. Growing up with two older brothers meant I was exposed to so much music as a youngster. Id lived through the era of Britpop and grown up with both older brothers taking opposite ends of the spectrum (one was a Oasis fan the other was Blur). ‘Dave Pierces Dance Anthems’ on Radio One on a Sunday Night must also get a mention It didn't get any better than that!

2011 onwards Id always (even though I wouldn't call them that at the time) been writing lyrics, in my counselling sessions I was encouraged to find an outlet for my frustration and anger I was tied of it being drink so I started channelling my emotions and feelings on paper, this wasn't of course my only inspiration for my lyrics the usual... love lost... lust etc. I could still tell you where I was when I wrote my first ever lyrics, what the weather was like etc... funny that I'm a very sentimental person and something like that I never want to forget.

I must also mention that without my good friend... lets call him 'D' I don't think I would have taken those lyrics any further he saw something in them. I remember I let him read 'the book' one day and he really wanted me to consider creating melodies, and turning them into songs along with him. So we tried it and we did really well for what you would call 'bedroom musicians' those where some good times in my apartment sitting there sometimes till 3AM drinking ale, coming up with melodies and me constantly looping lyrics trying to fit to his guitar parts... I'm forever grateful to D and his encouragement and belief In me... more about D and our little project later.

So most of 2011 2012 and 2013 I wrote nearly everyday, I've gotten a memory stick, books and scraps of paper etc. all containing my lyrics. Still I never took that step forward I always believed I wasn't good enough ... remember issues! But then the lightbulb moment happened and it all made sense ... music is what I had a passion for! writing is what I believed I was good at and what I enjoyed doing. From there I knew what I wanted to do or at least be able to say I was involved in.

#new blog #music #passion #inspiration #writing #slash #led zeppelin #mental health

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A Power Ranking of the Best and Worst Martinis at Every Major Chain Hotel

The Martini is not just a classic American cocktail, it is the classic American cocktail.

Pulitzer-prize-winner Bernard DeVoto, author of the 1951 drinking companion “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto,” described it as “the supreme American gift to world culture.” The drink continues to influence modern culture, with Emojipedia selecting an olive-garnished Martini as the definitive cocktail emoji.

In its simplest form, the drink comprises just two ingredients: London gin (some prefer vodka, but that’s not a classic Martini) and dry vermouth (preferably French). A basic olive or lemon twist garnish adds flair and flavor, though both are strictly optional, as is the inclusion of a few drops of orange bitters. It’s a deliberately boozy concoction and consensus opines that one Martini is never enough, but three is almost always too many.

For Martini aficionados like me, the beauty of the drink lies in the fact that it’s a classic cocktail with no set-in-stone recipe. When mixing at home, I have preferred gin and vermouth brands, and a favored ratio for consummating the two (12:1, in case you’re wondering). I add two dashes of orange bitters, garnish with a lemon twist, and pour into an ice-cold coupe glass, of which I keep a healthy stock in the freezer.

If I’m drinking out, I don’t expect such scrupulous attention to detail. Preparing a good Martini requires practice; perfecting the drink is nothing short of an art form. In dive bars and sports bars, most of which struggle to maintain clean draft lines, I’m not going to set myself up for the disappointment of a lousy Martini.

When I’m traveling, however, and staying in a hotel, it’s a different story. If that hotel has a functioning bar, at the very least it should be able to offer a half-decent Martini. Sadly, in my experience, this is often not the case.

To ensure I book accordingly in the future, I set upon a quest to determine which of our country’s major hotel chains makes the best Martini. Granted, I wasn’t going to be able to try every Martini at every Marriott or Hilton across the country, but if a chain mixes a good Martini in New York, you’d expect the standards to be just as high in most of its locations nationwide.

I enlisted the help of someone who also travels the world in the name of booze: VinePair contributor and fellow Martini enthusiast Aaron Goldfarb. We mapped a course across Midtown Manhattan that incorporated all the major chain hotels. Our planned approach was simple: We’d ask for a “Martini,” and offer further guidance only when prompted.

The desired cocktail would contain well gin, dry vermouth, a twist garnish, and should never, ever, ever, be shaken. Our final scores and ranking would take into account factors such as preparation method, ingredients used, the cocktail’s balance and appearance, and overall value for money.

The results, I’m sad to report, were almost unanimously disastrous.

7. HOLIDAY INN

(585 8th Ave., New York, N.Y. 10018)

The craft-beer-focused Rattle N Hum bar at the Holiday Inn on 8th Avenue keeps things lively until 2:00 a.m. After passing through the lobby into a boisterous dining area, we received a dirty, shaken Marini, garnished with three gigantic olives. The well gin came from a little-known brand called Georgi, which retails for around $12 for a 1-liter bottle. Without the brine, flavor would have been a distant luxury, while the olives themselves were the drink’s only redeeming feature. Average score: 9/25

6. MARRIOTT CLUB PULSE

(33 W. 37 St., New York, N.Y. 10018)

The appearance and ambiance of Marriott’s Club Pulse hotel bar set high expectations. Golden art-deco fixtures topped a sleek marble bar, while an acoustic duo provided a live soundtrack. We ordered a single Martini, and the bartender pulled two dainty coupe glasses from a freezer and poured New Amsterdam gin and Dolin vermouth into a mixing glass. But then, she plopped in a handful of ice cubes, topped the glass with the other end of a Boston Shaker, and throttled the concoction to a watery Martini tribute act. Average score: 9.75/25

5. WESTIN

(270 W. 43 St., New York, N.Y. 10036)

With live golf streaming on the largest TV screen I’ve ever seen, and a dedicated “Pappy” menu, Westin’s bar seemed like a glorified man cave. A well-dressed server stirred Beefeater gin and Cinzano dry vermouth tableside, before inextricably garnishing with an orange peel. The erroneous citrus twist knocked the balance out of the park, while the proceeding check ($30 with tip) dropped our jaws to the floor. If I ever return, I’ll order the Pappy. Average score: 11/25

4. BEST WESTERN

(50 W. 36 St., New York, N.Y. 10018)

There’s a subtle charm to Best Western’s hotel bar, with its designers apparently briefed to combine the essence of a country club and a London pub. Another establishment pouring Georgi as its well gin, the bartender checked if we’d like a splash of “Rossi,” before stirring and pouring into a chilled ’70s cocktail glass. The drink arrived with pre-prepared twist garnish, which was 80 percent pith, and did little to disguise the overpowering flavor of cheap gin. Average score: 13.5/25

3. HILTON

(60 W. 37 St., New York, N.Y. 10018)

Drinking in the 37th Street Hilton feels akin to ordering a Subway sandwich inside a gas station. Seated at the bar, you can practically check guests in at the front desk, which is separated from the drinking area by a thick cordon rope that may or may not have been lifted from a local museum. Beefeater and Martini Rossi were stirred and poured into a chilled glass, before the drink was garnished with a pith-heavy lemon “twist.” Average score: 14.75/25

2. W HOTEL

(1567 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036)

The juxtaposition of decor and atmosphere alone makes the W Hotel bar worthy of a visit. The room looks flashy, but there’s a clubby vibe and at least 90 percent of the clientele seem to be there to get “lit.” It’s like driving around in a Mercedes Benz wearing an Adidas tracksuit. The bartender served a stirred Bombay Sapphire and Carpano Dry Martini in two glasses, each containing three pimento-stuffed olives. It’s not a preparation I would normally ask for, but it worked, and was the perfect accompaniment for some interesting people-watching. Average score: 19.25/25

1. HYATT

(135 W. 45 St, New York, N.Y. 10036)

The Hyatt bar, serving New York’s best chain hotel Martini, fuses sushi lounge decor, ’80s romantic ballads, and expertly prepared classic cocktails. A Hungarian bartender named Csaba stirred 3 ounces of Fords gin and a half-ounce of Dolin vermouth, before pouring into an attractive freezer-chilled coupe glass. He reached for a peeler, extracted a generous twist from a juicy lemon, and expressed the fruit’s oils into the drink. To those who regularly prepare Martinis, this probably doesn’t sound special. After bearing witness to some of the atrocities of this roundup, it was a bona fide stroke of genius. Average score: 21.5/25

The article A Power Ranking of the Best and Worst Martinis at Every Major Chain Hotel appeared first on VinePair.

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Sky Bet EFL Q&A: Brentford defender Moses Odubajo on facing David Silva

The road Brentford has traveled with the back of Moses Odubajo has been long, arduous and full of obstacles that would have deterred less powerful spirits. ]

The 25-year-old lost his mother to malaria when he was 13 and was raised by his older brother, Sutton United player Tom Bolarinwa. with Brentford and won promotion to the Premier League with Hull City, Odubajo & # 39; s world was again moved by a knee injury in July 2016, which remained recurring and cost him two years out of play

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The road taken by Brentford full-back Moses Odubajo has been long and difficult

I have returned to Brentford this season and have rediscovered the pit and running power that once led him to England Under- 21 recognition.

Odubajo is the subject of this week's Sky Bet EFL Q & A and combines his answers with a maturity, but also a lightheartedness, which both enabled him to focus on a career and a life that sometimes seemed lost.

He reveals a biblical superstition, remembers the day he taught David Silva to football lessons and vividly tells that he was previously caught at this height

Describe yourself on it field in 3 words.

Energetic. Feisty. Intelligent.

Describe yourself of the field in 3 words. Cozy. Cooled.

Promotion to the Premier League with Hull City. That was a moment to cherish, against Sheffield Wednesday in Wembley (Hull won the championships play-off final 1-0 in May 2016). The day ended the season, but it was also the day in general. It was a beautiful sunny day, your family that normally doesn't get the chance to see you play there to see you play on a big stage. Then to play well and for us to win was a double bubble because you sometimes play well and lose.

One of my good friends in football, Andre Gray, was in Burnley at the time and they had just promoted.

When that last whistle went, that feeling of the next season, you go

Your summer is not as long as you get the final play-off, but it is all worth when you play in the top flight the following season

Who is the most difficult opponent? When I was Hull, we played Man City in the League Cup and lost 4-1 (in December 2015). In English football we tend to look a lot at someone's physicality.

But no matter how fast you are – and I'm not sure how much you're going to be. a lot faster than him – he was always one step ahead. At that moment I felt that I was getting close enough to even touch his shirt, let alone getting close enough to take the ball from him.

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Some games you play against world class players and you just walk 90 minutes on the field, that was one of those games when we were surpassed by pure class.

When he came down, I even clapped my head because I knew how good he was.

Most embarrassing moment in football?

I don't know what to do, but I don't know what to do. ]

We recently played Middlesbrough on TV. Prior to the game, the fitness coach gave this beet photo & # 39; s that many of the players had taken.

Then after ten minutes of playing, I just felt that I had to use the game. I thought I'd rest and then use the toilet.

I thought I would rest and then use the toilet then, but I didn't and 20 or 25 minutes in the game, I called to the ref: & # 39; Ref, please, You're not going to believe this, but I have to leave the field to go to the toilet. & # 39; He was like: & # 39; What? What do you mean you have to go to the bathroom? & # 39;

I left the field while the game was going, had to go to the toilet, came back and didn't even feel real. The fans made a song (& # 39; Moses Odubajo, he is s *** s whenever he wants & # 39;). That's the most embarrassing thing I'm ever going to do on a soccer field – I hope.

After the competition I also received many tweets. My shirt number is 2, so I made a lot of jokes about number 2 and go for a number two.

I have not yet tried the beet shots. I stay far away from them.

It depends on what you don't know what to do, but I don't know what to do. state of mind I am in. If I feel like I have to raise myself for a game, I listen to happy rap music or happy house music to get me in the mood to play as well as possible.

But if I really feel motivated for the competition, then I will probably listen to something calming, just to be more focused than I feel I need to get up. My brain sometimes only needs that mental focus. Sometimes gospel music, but mostly just slow songs with meaningful lyrics.

And if I want to feel like it, probably something like Meek Mill of Future. Then as a team for a competition, we listen to a Meek Mill song – & # 39; 1942 Flows & # 39; –

What is your guilty food pleasure? I will warm them up so that they are not too hard. Keep in mind that they eat in a package of five, so sometimes I have them all five. Once they are hot, it is irresistible to say no.

Of course I limit that.

Which player in history would you like to play alongside – and why?

When I first joined Hull, Tom Huddlestone was in.

So I will tell someone like Cesc Fabregas who can play both the short passes and the longer ones. So to defend, I like to attack a lot and run after the opponent. Having a midfielder always looking for the pass that no one else sees is probably the dream of the full-back.

I didn't play against him because I was injured in the Premier League season, so I had to watch the Chelsea game from the stands. [19459003

Probably everyone's answer – Pep Guardiola.

Which famous manager would you have? Just because of the fact that, from the outside, even the players who play here and there for five minutes get every chance they get, they still want to do well.

Many managers, when they have their starting line-up and you are not in it, it gives a player the feeling that you cannot do anything to get that line-up.

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If Odubajo could play under any manager in the world, City would be his boss Pep Guardiola

From what I have seen and from what I have seen for it audience, his man management skills are out of this world. He lets the whole team feel that they are part of it. If you look at the previous season when they won the competition, (Benjamin) Mendy didn't play any games at all, but he was the one who lifted the trophy and celebrates and sings. It is important for a manager to be able to do that.

Raheem Sterling had a dip at the start of this season, when many people criticized him. Many managers would have been tempted to sign another £ 50 million with the club, but Pep showed that he believed in Raheem Sterling and gave him the confidence he needed. Now he is probably going to win a young player or even a player of the year.

I would like to say that I would like to say that I would like to speak to you. I would have studied sports science at the university to see where I stood. I don't know exactly what I would do with it, but I would have liked to stay in the sport. Growing up, I wanted to be there, in and around it.

When you sign a scholarship with a professional team, you study two days a week, then the rest is spent playing soccer. You must pass all the subjects you study.

I felt that I had to do as well as possible in case football didn't work. It doesn't work. I was lucky enough to sign a professional contract with Leyton Orient, but I had even asked my teacher to apply to get a place in Chester, Uni to study sports science because they were at that moment people from my university names.

I am a little superstitious

I am a little superstitious. If we win a competition, the trainers that I wear that day with my tracksuit, I wear them every competition day until we lose. If we keep winning, I always wear the same trainers. If we lose, I change them until we win again.

I had an adidas pair when we were on a winning run. Then we lost them, but I went back to them and we won. I realized that I had to stick to them.

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Interview // Jimothy Lacoste

I interviewed Jimothy for Issue 129 of Loud and Quiet. Photography by Sonny McCartney.

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At Burberry’s New Bond Street store, the stairs leading to the menswear department are lined with immaculate, heavy pile carpet in a fantastically impractical shade of cream. Sleek, Art Deco-style banisters guide the way to tastefully-lit chambers on the lower ground floor, its walls sparsely lined with clothing rails and covered in staff-sanctioned customer graffiti. Shop assistants glide around the space silently, smoothing shirts and straightening rows of signature trench coats, which currently retail at £1,495 apiece.

Jimothy Lacoste is stood examining the shoes. In his hands is a fawn-coloured loafer, decorated in Burberry’s trademark tartan, edged with navy blue, calf leather piping and embellished with a buffed gold chain. “Classic. The more simple, the better,” he nods approvingly, turning it over to inspect the sole. “£450. The perfect price.”

As we prepare to exit, Jimothy chooses a black marker pen from a selection on a ledge, crouches and carefully adds “Jimothy” to the lower regions of the wall in capital letters, the tail of the Y spiralling inwards like the shell of a cartoon snail.

As predicted on 2017’s breakout track ‘Getting Busy’, life has suddenly gotten quite exciting for Jimothy, real name Timothy Gonzales. Following a steady string of standalone tracks with enjoyably low-budget music videos, the Camden-raised rapper is now signed to Black Butter Records, the home of Rudimental, J Hus and Octavian.

His first release for the label was September’s single ‘Fashion’, the premise of which provides an amusingly literal framework for today’s interview. As he explains in the intro to the song in his leisurely drawl, “You know, I love to dress… Clothes is there – you might as well take advantage of it. It’s just fun, bro.” To ram the latter point home, props in the accompanying video include a real life zebra and a white Rolls Royce. Meanwhile, Jimothy lolls on a leather sofa in a cobalt fur jacket and crystal-covered Gucci shades, steals a bottle of champagne from a Sainsbury Local, and does his trademark hip wiggle in a succession of primary-coloured slacks.

It’s this vague whiff of the ludicrous that has made Jimothy a divisive figure. His deadpan delivery is less fire in the booth than easy-going Sprechgesang, the well-to-do North London accent and clear diction jarring with the use of street slang. Lyrics are literal and rhymes often ridiculous (“I’m gonna have to dip, I’ll see you soon / Baby, don’t get sad, when I’m rich I’ll take you to the moon”). So far, all the subjects covered have been simplistic, including his love of London transport (‘Subway System’), bilingualism (‘I Can Speak Spanish’) and plans for romance (‘Future Bae’).

Mirroring the minimal production of his iPad-pop, his homemade videos have an endearing DIY quality, and through them he’s established his own visual language. For example, by now we know to expect sporadic subtitles, rotating £20 note graphics, and Jimothy in smart-casual dress, showcasing his extremely gif-able dance moves in an array of urban locations, including on top of high rise buildings and bus stops. In a genre that prides gritty authenticity, Jimothy’s benign playfulness stands out, earmarking him as either endearingly naive or wilfully provocative. After our afternoon together, I decide he’s probably both.

Certainly, he seems to benefit from an enviable lack of self-consciousness. In the opulent Gucci store on Old Bond Street he breezily dismisses their trainers as “horrible”, within easy earshot of staff. In the walnut-panelled rooms of Ralph Lauren, Jimothy tells me that, unlike most people, he much prefers the Polo Bear motif to the iconic Polo player logo. “It’s cute,” he explains. “Shows you’re not insecure. Shows you don’t take life too seriously.”

Though still probably only in his late teens (his exact age is being withheld to preserve mystery), Jimothy is a seasoned aesthete, with a precisely defined personal style. He aspires to the preppy look preferred by “posh, old people”, boarding school kids and city workers, citing his staple pieces as cable knit sweaters, gilets, cords, pinstriped silk shirts and heritage labels. He’s not precious about seeming androgynous: the Gucci glasses from the ‘Fashion’ video were from the ladies department, and he intends to start wearing handbags as necklaces. He loves primary colours, happily philosophises on his favourite shade combinations (red with blue, and green with black) and proudly offers an itemised rundown of today’s outfit. It is as follows: navy and white Prada sneakers (£460), scarlet Ralph Lauren cords (£50 from eBay), white Oxford shirt from Uniqlo (£24.90), Gucci belt (£265), Prada shades and Coach messenger bag (gifted), cream fur jacket (on loan from his older sister), Slazenger socks (£2), and briefs from a Spanish supermarket (around €1 for 3 pairs).

Jimothy will happily concede to being materialistic, but he retains a sense of perspective about his expensive purchases: “I love brands. But if [something I buy] breaks the next day, I’ve got no right to be upset about it. No right. Because as soon as I buy something, it’s already money down the drain.” If he seems surprisingly sanguine at the idea of squandering cash, it’s a position he’s only had the luxury of indulging in recent months.

“The first time I actually went shopping by myself and bought something was literally six months ago,” he recalls later, reclined on a sofa in a quiet nook of Soho House. “That was Lacoste. Basically, I got money from merch, and that was the very first time I had any money ever in life, despite what people think. Lots of people think I’m a rich kid and I’m really not. My mum would only give me £10 maybe every three weeks and every time she did that she was so upset that I would just spend it on spray cans.

“It’s weird because I’ve never had money, but I’ve always dressed really smart. And that’s because my older sister worked in retail and she was really into fashion. She would be onto me, like, ‘Do you want me to get anything for you?’

“But I don’t shop in these shops regularly. I had guilt when I first went to the Gucci store the other day. I felt really weird. I felt a bit depressed, even. But I need to remind myself that I left this much money in my savings account, and I’ve left this much money to spend on food and clothes. And that I’m here because I am becoming a little successful in life.” He describes designer clothing as “a medal” in that “it reminds me that I’m doing well, and it motivates me more and more each day to carry on and chase my dreams.”

Aside from the influence of his sister, it was graffiti culture that first sparked Jimothy’s interest in fashion, when he was hanging out around Gospel Oak from the age of 11. “I was always just in a typical tracksuit with quick [Nike] Air Forces. I had no style,” he laughs. “Because that’s just how everyone dressed, and you’ve got to look the same and what not.

“There were these older graffiti writers in London that I looked up to. I thought they’d be dressed exactly like me but then I met some of them and they were all extremely classic and smart. They just dressed like they had money: slim trousers, tucked-in shirt. I looked at that and then I looked at my situation and I thought it would be so cool to do the same, first of all because I love this style, but second because dressing like a rich guy even though you’ve got no money is fun. Even though your mum’s been on the dole for over 25 years and your dad’s never worked a single day of his life. Because no-one in my family has money. But when I was dressed like a rich guy, I just felt amazing. I felt amazing. So ever since then I was just dressed really smart.

“And then later I watched this documentary on kids in New York in the ’70s. And they all dressed how I dress now: colourful trousers, [Adidas] Sambas or any slim trainers, tucked in shirt, sweater, a nice old-man-looking jacket, flat caps. I was like, ‘This is where he got it from. This whole time I’ve been dressing like these kids without knowing.’ And after that I really, really stuck with my style.”

We exit Burberry and head towards Prada on Old Bond Street, past a gaggle of wealthy teenagers and two immaculately coiffured ladies being helped into a car by their chauffeur. It’s an uncharacteristically mild October day, and businessmen are visibly flushed in their bespoke suits as they plough past us. A chrome Lamborghini cruises past, driven by a man in his 50s. While my default response is to roll my eyes, Jimothy is delighted. “He looked so happy,” he smiles, as it vanishes around the corner, “I love it!”

Jimothy’s parents split when he was barely one, and he, his sister and brother were raised by their mother. They lived in Primrose Hill, a notoriously well-heeled enclave of Camden, at the top of Regent’s Park. “The council gave us the flat in Primrose Hill thirty years ago, so it’s all a blessing,” he says, gauging my surprise. “See, this is the funny thing: the way I talk, the way I walk, the way I dress, where I live – people are convinced I’m rich. But I talk like this because I’ve been around lots of posh kids, and because it’s a better way of talking.

“And of course, my mum’s from Spain so she has class. So she’ll be poor but she’ll also be dressed like a rich woman, and the house will look well designed even though it’s a council house. A lot of people have money but they have no class. A lot of people have money but they don’t know how to dress. Do you know what I mean? Money doesn’t mean anything.”

He mixed with affluent kids at the local park from a young age, only to be separated when they went to private school. When they hit their teens, Jimothy invited himself along to their house parties, and his socialising then snowballed to the point where he was hanging out almost exclusively with rich people. “Literally, I don’t have a single friend in my situation, living in a council house,” he says, shaking his head. “It makes me sad sometimes. But if it wasn’t for those friends I wouldn’t be the person I am now.”

I wonder if Jimothy ever felt intimidated by his friends’ wealth. “Definitely,” he nods. “At first I was very insecure about it. But that was when I was 13 and dressed in a certain way, and all the other kids would be dressed really smart. They would make me feel really bad. The funny thing is, now I’m the one dressed really smart, and they’re dressed like they’re from a council house. They go to private school, and they’re trying to dress like a roadman, trying to dress like a hood kid.”

While there was once an element of Jimothy dressing to deliberately confound people’s preconceptions, he now feels conflicted about being mistaken for a rich kid. “The reason why it hurts my feelings so much – and no offence, because I love rich kids – is they all know how to play the piano. Their parents could afford to lend them a decent amount of money or a car for their music videos. They could start a career easier than someone with not much money. Me, I literally started with nothing. It was all me, me, me, me, me. So when people think [I’m a rich kid] it implies I didn’t work for anything; that it was given to me. And that really, really disrespects me, my family, everything.”

If Jimothy was initially a fish out of water in his friendship group, he felt even more out of place at the special school he attended from the age of 13, due to his dyslexia and dyscalculia. The way he tells it, he knew he didn’t belong there but stayed because the work was easy. Had he left, he might never have pursued music.

“At the special school there are no kids with insecurities,” he explains. “So I wasn’t shy to write a song and put it out there. I wasn’t shy to make a music video. That school made me do music, basically. And the work was easy but that was freeing. That school gave me a free-thinking mentality and a higher consciousness.”

In some respects, he believes the school protected him. “It did get to a point where it was then scary to go to a mainstream school. Because I thought to myself, actually, if I go to a mainstream school and someone laughs at me for dyslexia, or for my parents having always been living off benefits, or for not having a father figure, I don’t know how I would react to that. [I don’t know] whether I would fight them, whether I would then not go to school and end up on the streets selling drugs. If I went to a mainstream school – and it sounds really harsh and kind of depressing, but it’s true – but if I went to a mainstream school I’d either be dead or I’d be prison. And that’s why I always say with my songs that Jimothy is blessed.”

The floors of the Gucci store are covered in geometric patterns, in tiles of purple, red, grey and white. There are mirrored walls and staircases lined with plush velvet in a vivid shade of oxblood. In the womenswear section, we’re admiring the craftsmanship of a collection of luxe satin bombers in jewel colours, each intricately embroidered and painstakingly stitched with sequins. Jimothy’s eyes are drawn away from the glitz to a monochrome coat in the iconic interlinking GG pattern. “I’d buy that for my future bae,” he nods.

There wasn’t money for piano lessons growing up, but Jimothy believes he inherited a “gene of rhythm” from his dad, and a fascination with melody from his mum, who was always playing R&B at home. Grime was a formative influence, as was UK garage, which he was exposed to via the older graffiti writers. “I’d listen to anything,” he remembers. “If it sounded good in my ears, I’d put it on, whether that was Somali pop or classic house.”

Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Octavian and Sheck Wes are all mentioned when I ask Jimothy about who he sees as his peers. “Basically, it’s music that you can dance to but music you can sit down in your room to by yourself,” he explains. “Tomorrow, I could come out with a house tune, I could come out with a rock tune, I could come out with a bedroom pop tune. Nothing is ever intended. You’ve got to come to [my music] with no expectations.

“A lot of people think I don’t take music seriously,” he continues, “and that’s super disrespectful. I will not put out anything I don’t like. So many producers send me so many instrumentals, and I am super particular. It offends me when people come up to me like, ‘Oh mate, I love your stuff – it’s funny.’ I wanna hear, ‘I love your stuff, I love your instrumentals, I love your lyrics.’”

And yet, I counter, surely he must concede that there’s a vein of humour running through his work? “Oh yeah, definitely,” he smiles. “And I love to shock people. I’ve always been a bit of an attention-seeker. But I think it depends. If people only find it funny and they don’t appreciate anything else about it, it offends me. Like, I find my own stuff funny, but when I’m doing the instrumental, I have so much passion and love.”

Considering the rigour he applies to every other area of his life, I don’t doubt Jimothy’s discipline in the studio. Today he’s fasting, which he does two consecutive days a week, the rationale for which is apparently to “repair DNA”. “When your digestion isn’t going your body then focuses on cell replenishment,” he elaborates. Then there’s the cold showers he takes every morning, and the nights spent sleeping on a hard floor.

I wonder at the rationale behind his asceticism. What tangible benefits does he actually take away from such restrictive rituals? “The main benefit I see from it is mental strength. So when someone says to me, ‘Can you do this?’ it’s easy for me to do it because my brain is so strong. You know, I’ve had no father figure whatsoever. I’ve never had someone to say, ‘Good job. Focus on your goals.’ I had to find that in myself.”

En route to Soho House for our sit-down chat, there’s a pretty uncanny coincidence. We’re discussing fame and the loss of anonymity. “I’d love paparazzi following me,” Jimothy insists. “I’d love it.” Suddenly, a young man steps into Jimothy’s path. “Can I just interrupt, man?” he asks, clearly attempting to play it cool. “I think your shit’s dope.” They take a selfie together, the fan departs and we continue our journey, Jimothy wearing a contented grin.

As our conversation draws to a close, the subject turns to aspiration. For Jimothy, is success ultimately measured in luxury clothing, or is there something loftier he’s aiming for? “A good income,” he replies without any hesitation, “to the point where I’ve got my own house and I can treat myself, and I can have kids and I can have a wife.” So in essence, he’s seeking security? “Definitely. It’s something I’ve never had. It would just be amazing to have it. Something that seems a little bit impossible.”

What else? “Having a fan base that loves me and I love them. I love being a role model. I want all my fans to be happy to express themselves and to have fun at my shows and to just go crazy. To let their emotions out and to let go of stress, and to not be insecure and not be those kids that judge other people. I want my fans to just be nice people. Like me. Don’t judge people, don’t call other people names, treat everyone with equality. Simple things really.”

While it’s heartening to hear the connection Jimothy feels to his fans, I wonder if his increasingly lavish lifestyle might eventually create resentment. “It should be the opposite,” he insists. “They should look at me and think. ‘1. I’m happy for Jimothy – he’s doing well. And 2. that’s motivation for me.’

“When I now see someone with a sports car it makes me happy, like, that could be me one day. That motivates me. I’m not gonna hate on them; that’s how unsuccessful people think. You’ve got to be happy for that person and aspire to those levels.” The way Jimothy reacted to the owner of the Lamborghini earlier, I ask? “Yeah exactly. Stuff like that makes me happy. You’ve got to use it as motivation. You can be like that one day if you just follow your dreams and you’re smart.”

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I’m standing in a piteous rain, in front of an auto garage on Flushing Avenue, staring across the street at a line of people that stretches back at least two full avenues. The mechanics standing behind me are idly curious: “What the hell is going on over there?”

I kind of think that if I started to try to explain it, I’d grow old and die on this street corner.

Hypefest, which takes place the same weekend as the New Yorker Festival and New York Comic Con, is a two-day streetwear celebration featuring art, music, food, and, of course, shopping. Hosted throughout several large, vaguely fish-scented buildings in the currently hip Brooklyn Navy Yard, it’s the first large-scale festival organized by the Hong Kong-based media and e-commerce giant Hypebeast, founded by Kevin Ma in 2005. And it’s an answer to ComplexCon, the glorified mall and music festival hosted by the “youth culture” media monolith Complex in Long Beach, California, every November.

Both celebrate the ever-growing online “hype” culture around anything exciting — Elon Musk and the modern commercial space race; basketball sneakers and a handful of famous men in hip-hop; startup streetwear brands and the legendary fashion houses that embrace them. Surprise and unlikeliness are key, which is why this crew loves loose-cannon tech CEOs as much as they love Kanye West, and also as much as they love bizarre collaborations like Balenciaga and Crocs or Louis Vuitton and Supreme.

Note a tiny hypebeast in an Adidas tracksuit. And, in the distance, a yacht Hypefest attendees can sign up to stand on. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

Hypefest was barely announced, save for some Instagram posts last month and an 800-word New York Times preview titled “If you hype it, will they come?” Tickets weren’t made available until three weeks in advance, at which time Ma wrote on his Instagram, “Culture and learning shouldn’t have a price attached to it. I will personally cover the cost of tickets to make Hypefest a free experience for all.”

He gave out 10,000 free tickets in a matter of minutes.

The location of the festival was kept a secret until two days before, at which time it was announced only to ticket holders. The requisite Hypefest app, also usable only to ticket holders, hosted an elaborate digital store, which was the only way to buy anything you saw at the event. There was no cash allowed — even food trucks and the several enormous Ciroc stations weren’t permitted to take anything but credit cards or Apple Pay.

All these measures seem dramatic but were presumably necessary, given that the culture we’re talking about is one literally named for its excess energy and known for ambitious, flagrantly ridiculous resale scams. Also its high percentage of young male fans.

The location of Hypefest was kept a secret until two days before

Of the many things available for sale at Hypefest, a $1,700 suitcase is the most coveted. It’s making an exclusive debut at the festival, and it’s the reason many of these people got out of bed this morning.

For example: Axel, 15, and Chris, 14, a pair of incredibly polite friends who drove up from Washington, DC, with their parents. They are wearing Comme des Garçons Nikes and 2011 Jordan 1s, respectively; they tell me they came to Hypefest for the experience, and to buy two of the suitcases.

Other stuff sells out — notably, freeze-dried flowers preserved in glass blocks by Japanese artist Azuma Makoto (ranging from $260 to $600), and tactical vests from Pharrell Williams’s Billionaire Boys Club, which go for $1,100 each. But it’s the suitcase, a collaboration between Off-White (the Italian brand founded by Kanye West creative director Virgil Abloh) and Rimowa (a fancy German luggage company, majority-owned by LVMH), that’s the talk of the party.

The suitcase sells out immediately, but no worries — every couple of hours, it gets restocked, which festivalgoers are alerted to by a push notification. Each time, it sells out again about two minutes later. This happens at least five times.

The setting for Hypebeast’s first festival was a smattering of fish-scented buildings owned by the Brooklyn Fish Transfer. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

Before I asked if I could go to Hypefest, I told my editor, “I think I love the hypebeasts. At least they’re getting excited. At least someone’s having an adrenaline rush.” If that’s true, it must be a behind-the-computer state of play. Everyone in line for the first round of shuttle buses to the navy yard on Saturday looks like they’d rather chew gravel than smile. (The buses are also effectively crowd control, serving no real crucial transportation purpose, as each group travels about 800 feet in them and there are no return buses.)

My first order of business upon disembarking the “shuttle bus” is not buying a $1,700 suitcase, but waiting in a small corral in order to meet the extremely famous young person Jaden Smith, who is announcing a denim line made in collaboration with the Dutch brand G-Star. Standing in the corral for 40 minutes, I am not permitted to leave to go to the bathroom, but I am permitted to look around my immediate vicinity.

Everybody is tall and wearing all black, except a baby wearing a camouflage Bape hoodie. Lots of people are pausing to take a picture of the back of a bald guy’s neck as he peruses Lacoste polos — probably because he has a tattoo there, of a pair of eyes, that looks suspiciously similar to Zayn Malik’s tattoo of Gigi Hadid’s eyes. All clothes are designer, unless they’re Scarface T-shirts or hoodies from the famed Atlanta strip club Magic City. It doesn’t immediately seem like anyone’s that cool, but I can concede they’re all cooler than me.

A fashion reporter, also stationed in the corral, looks down at my chunky white sneakers — relatively new but already slightly scuffed, modeled extremely vaguely after the current trend of designing shoes to look like swollen lips — and asks, “So what are those?”

“They’re from Target!” I say, throwing my arms wide like I’m Betty Draper about to show off a serving tray of Heineken. I hope it will be funnier than it is.

Ten minutes later, Jaden Smith — son of Will Smith, star of Netflix’s Neo Yokio, general presence in hip-hop — arrives to introduce his denim collection wearing what I can only guess is about 50 pounds of (mostly denim) clothing. Denim jacket, denim pants. He has both a fanny pack and a tactical vest, and though I can’t really get close enough to see, it seems like he’s not using all this storage space for anything in particular.

Outside our admittedly not-very-private corral, dozens of teens and 20-somethings press in and reach for his hand. Smith gives it. He smiles a glittery famous person smile. “We got floating mannequins inside; it’s gonna be awesome,” he tells the general air, seeming genuinely friendly and enthused, bouncing either because he is happy or because that is how you have to move if you are a tiny boy-wire inside enough fabric to cover a grizzly bear.

Jaden Smith poses with a fan at Hypefest, inside the G-Star booth. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

He leads us into a conical structure I am hoping is not actually supposed to be a teepee and points up at three headless mannequins, suspended by invisible cords. They are wearing denim. The denim, it is explained, is sustainable. Some of it is undyed; some of it is dyed with indigo that doesn’t use salt; all of it uses less water than other denim.

“We have floating mannequins that are flying, because we want them to fly,” Smith explains. “G-Star clothes give you superpowers.” He turns to someone from G-Star and says, “The floating’s great. The floating’s great.” He explains that sustainability is important to him, and I believe him. I look at him for a few minutes longer than I feel I want to, because it just seems like what you should do if there’s a celebrity a few feet away and he’s thanked you for coming.

After I’ve touched raw denim, I wander outside, past the main stage where about two dozen boys are attempting to mosh to a DJ playing the Killers’ “Mr. Brightside,” and talk to a man waiting in line for empanadas. He points suddenly to my chest and says, “What is that?” That is a 3-inch-tall teddy bear holding an orange leaf. I remember that I bought it for 50 cents at the flea market in Avon, New York, last weekend, and that I pinned to the lapel of my stained Topshop jacket more or less as a joke.

“So you’d be making a 10,000 percent profit if you sold it to me right now for $5?” the man says. I think he’s joking, so I laugh, and then he says he’ll also buy me an empanada. I say something weird about how I’m “just getting acquainted” with my bear, I’ve only had him for one week, I don’t know if I need $5 that badly. “I mean, I know I’m a journalist, but it’s not that dire today,” I tell him, and he says the empanadas are really good. His friend, who is wearing an Endxiety hat reading “Our Lord & Savior Elon Musk,” tells him to please give up, I’m not parting with it.

It will take me close to 48 hours to realize that I wrote the man’s name down wrong and he’s Rhuigi Villaseñor, the 26-year-old owner of Rhude, an (extremely expensive!) LA streetwear label best known for the fact that Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, and LeBron James wear it.

Anyway, he is really nice. He’s here to help launch a new sneaker with Puma. He tells me, “It’s great for the culture to be social, because it’s an Instagram world. It’s good for kids to be socializing who are, in one way or another, a little awkward.” I say, “Do you think they’re socializing?”

He says, “No.”

Rhude designer Rhuigi Villaseñor drinking a Sprite at Hypefest. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox Adidas’s booth at Hypfest, where attendees could sign up to create their own “never built” shoe. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

It’s sort of a rhetorical question, as I can already see that they mostly aren’t. The thing about an event designed to educate you about expensive goods, I reason, is that the expensive goods are the education in and of themselves. You don’t need to hear explanations of them. You don’t need to hear outside opinions. A pair of sneakers being sold for $350 is worth $350, and probably more once there aren’t any left. I’m happy enough with this explanation — who doesn’t want a hobby that’s as simple as arithmetic and supply and demand?

Hypefest is a beautiful mall, essentially two dozen Instagram-ready stations for brands that don’t often appear outside of Instagram. Everybody is a walking price tag, and doing the math is as easy as a Google search on the free, ubiquitous wifi. The air is thick with humidity and money: Women wear ground-length Opening Ceremony raincoats, Prada fanny packs, Helmut Lang sweatshirts, Balenciaga sneakers, and vintage Apple employee jackets that go for around $400 on eBay. Men are in Off-White Nikes with the tags still on, Supreme hoodies, Anti-Social Social Club windbreakers, and Advisory Board Crystals beanies that are about $200 each on the popular resale app Grailed.

Jake Woloshin, 23, is wearing Ava Nirui’s Marc Jacobs hoodie (advertised as an “official bootleg,” which … okay), which means he is currently wearing $125 on his torso. But he tells me he couldn’t resist the new Heron Preston hoodies he saw today, so he picked one up; tomorrow, his torso will be worth $475.

As for his feet, they’re in relatively modest Timberlands, and he tells me he’s glad he’s not wearing the same Travis Scott Air Jordan 4s everyone else is wearing. This is a point reiterated by nearly everyone I speak to. They are mortified by the amount of Travis Scott merch. “You’d think he was performing,” says a New Jersey podcast host, smiling kind of, but mostly rolling his eyes.

Marc Jacobs set up a photo booth where Hypefest attendees could pose in Marc Jacobs-branded surgical masks. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

I have a lot of time to wander around, as I can’t get drunk and I can’t buy anything and I can’t even really merit anyone’s attention because good lord, look at my outfit.

I wander past a car completely covered in packets of $100 bills, which is apparently an ad for a hotel in Los Angeles. I pass the Marc Jacobs booth, which is advertising a collaboration with Instagram artist @Hey_Reilly by giving out surgical masks with teeth printed on the front, with “Marc Jacobs” printed on the teeth. They’re really scary, and I don’t like them. I stop into a booth stylized to look like a convenience store (T-shirts sold in soda bottles, hoodies sold in chip bags); it belongs to the Japanese brand Conveni, which has never been to New York before. I like that one; they’re selling bandanas in triangular sandwich packaging, and the owner is kind enough to offer me a snack.

Back outside, Charlie Mejia, a 19-year-old New Yorker who came to Hypefest by himself, tells me he came specifically to buy a Pikachu sweatshirt designed by a brand called Fragment, which typically stylizes its name as “.” It sold out, so he bought a limited-edition calendar designed by manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo, and is mostly looking forward to a talk called “The Female Is Present,” hosted by Sporty and Rich founder Emily Oberg and Kendrick Lamar stylist Aleali May.

“I really want to hear women’s thoughts,” he tells me. “We don’t hear their perspectives as much.”

“I really want to hear women’s thoughts. We don’t hear their perspectives as much.”

I run into a kid named Aidan Parker, who is wearing a black denim jacket designed by Nick Holiday, the creator of the hip-hop collective Brockhampton’s early merch. I’m happy to recognize something, and ask Parker to tell me about his day and his thoughts on the Brockhampton sexual misconduct scandal, which he calls simply “uh, crazy.” He’s there with his friend A.J. Nurse, who is on the phone trying to coordinate with the rest of their friends. They run a group chat called The Stoop, sourced from the subreddit r/streetwear, made up of more than 50 people ages 16 to 34, who first met up in Union Square in June 2016. They hang out in SoHo; they are here to buy $1,700 suitcases.

There are so many boys like them — expected, and at the same time hyperreal because of how expected they are. It’s nice, I guess, that they are friends who met online.

There are also VIPs hanging out in a secluded plastic garden, and a yacht you can sign up to stand on. There’s a huge Adidas station where you can design your own shirts and sneakers or watch someone named Jack the Ripper put together shoes inside a glass box for hours on end. There is an adorable 4-year-old in a high-visibility-workwear yellow baseball cap, sucking his thumb. There is a slightly younger child waddling around all day in a full Adidas tracksuit, and I am obligated to write down that even the toddlers at Hypefest are rich and beautiful.

Axel and Chris, polite teenage friends at Hypefest Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

There is a teenager in Balenciaga’s Triple S sneakers and a UPenn baseball cap who drops, with zero warning, to his knees, in front of an unexplained covered wagon. He holds Drake’s favored squat pose for about 20 seconds, while his mom, wearing a navy cardigan and green Adidas Stan Smiths, waits for him without a change in expression. I don’t think anyone took his picture.

What I love about Hypefest is that even an untrained eye like mine can pick out a logo and look up how much something cost. The barrier to access for this event was just proximity to it, and the barrier to access for a community in which shopping becomes an art form in itself is just money — a lot of it.

When I sit down and force myself to find something redeeming about it all, it is the same thing that redeems anything noxious: The people are nice when addressed directly. The attendees imagined that the culture they love on the internet might represent community in real life, and for a handful of them, maybe it does — if you put your face in front of someone, they will mostly respond with warmth.

These are just people, like me, here to buy something that will make them feel better, or, barring that, to look at things they can’t afford, which will make them feel like they have a reason to try harder. All we can really dream of in America is a chance to buy something that will change our lives.

Also, for no obvious reason and with no explanation: Travis Scott did show up at Hypefest on Sunday afternoon. Sometimes faith is rewarded.

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The Greatest Basketball Shoes A Man Can Wear, On Court Or Off

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The Greatest Basketball Shoes A Man Can Wear, On Court Or Off

It started with two words. “adding basketball” [sic] was the ground-breaking statement Kanye West fired off to his legion of Twitter followers in July 2018. Although far from his most philosophical of tweets, it was the one to get sneakerheads rabid with excitement. He was of course referring to the latest Yeezy line of trainers, confirming the two-year-old rumours that he’d been working on a basketball shoe, to be released in 2019.

Is this the first time a luxury brand without a sporting pedigree has turned its hand to the basketball silhouette? Of course not. Off-White, Fear of God, Hender Scheme, Valentino, Berluti and Buscemi are just some of the names that have made them in recent years, none of which come below £500. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. There’s nothing fashion hasn’t appropriated. Can we even call them basketball shoes when they don’t have the tech to actually make them wearable on court? Who knows.

Michael Jordan, 1998

What we do know is, there’s no other sport that has such a grip on fashion, and particularly the sneaker industry. Air Jordans have been dominating the sneaker game since the first pair came out in 1984, and are arguably responsible for the market as we know it today, as well as the popularity of endorsement deals. In 2017, the Jordan brand’s wholesale revenue was at $3.1 billion, so it’s little wonder fashion brands want to cash in.

And then of course there’s the matter of style. Just as many people purchase basketball shoes to be worn off court as they do on, and with good reason. Forget the chunky trainers of today, basketball shoes were the first statement sneaks, and some of the most iconic sneaker designs ever hailed from the hardwood – we’re talking Converse All Stars, Nike Air Force Ones, Air Jordan 1s. Naturally they pair well with streetwear-inspired looks, loud colourways working with bold logo tees and wide-leg chinos or jeans; whereas muted all black or white versions can complement more minimal outfits. And their popularity is set to rise too.

Enter Kanye and his plans with Yeezy’s big release. Could 2019 be the year of the basketball shoe? The Chicago native has been on the ball so far in his life as a designer – he was a major catalyst for the longline tops, oversized jackets and chunky trainers trends, after all. Until then, here are some of the top basketball shoes you can buy right now, in terms of style, performance and affordability.

The Best Fashion Basketball Shoes

Nike Air Force 1 Mid

The OG basketball sneaker. Yes, the Converse All Star was the actual first and remains a style classic, but the Air Force 1 really revolutionised the athletic shoe market. And yet, because of its popularity today people too often forget the AF1’s hardtop roots. While it wouldn’t hold up quite as well today in performance terms as it would when it was launched in 1982, the Air Force 1’s classic design ensures its style game is unparalleled.

Buy Now: £79.95

Air Jordan 3 Retro

Air Jordans are often reissued but regularly sell out, meaning you have to act fast if you want a pair in a wearable colour. These 3s boast an iconic design, imitated by many, bettered by none, and come in white with a subtle baby blue sole – mimicking Jordan’s North Carolina college colours.

Buy Now: £164.95

Converse All Star Classic High-Top

Like the Air Force 1, the All Star’s widespread popularity has meant the shoe’s original purpose is often forgotten. It was a basketball shoe first and foremost, but is a wardrobe staple today. Wear it with anything – from your tracksuit to your business suit – and it’ll look the part.

Buy Now: £70.00

Fear of God Basketball High-Tops

Despite a wholly unoriginal design which borrows heavily from the AF1 and the Converse Weapon of the ‘80s, these Fear of God sneakers still demand a price tag of £800. Why? Because fashion. They are, naturally, made from high-quality calf leather and are assembled by hand in Italy, but more importantly they signal the next potential direction the luxury sneaker is heading.

Buy Now: £800.00

Hender Scheme MIP-01 High-Tops

Rather than try to swerve its design inspirations, Japanese brand Hender Scheme offers all-out replications of the most famous sneaker styles of all – three guesses for where this one turned to. Constructed from a beautiful vegetable-tanned leather and with all branding stripped away, this is more like a work of art than a basketball shoe, which is reflected in the price tag.

Buy Now: £830.00

Best Performance Basketball Shoes

Kobe A.D. NXT 360

Being hailed by some as the best performing basketball shoe of all time, this 2018 addition to Kobe Bryant’s signature line has been a triumph. It looks unconventional – more like a running shoe than a basketball sneaker – but features all of Nike’s latest tech including a next-gen ‘360’ Flyknit upper, React and Lunarlon foam built into a drop-in midsole and a unique wrap-around translucent sole. This basically translates into a shoe that feels like a second skin, yet has the cushioning and support of one twice as chunky.

Buy Now: £164.95

Adidas Harden Vol. 2 MVP

Adidas falls some way behind Nike in basketball shoe sales, but it’s models like the Harden Vol. 2 that are boosting the German brand’s hoops stock. Made to celebrate its namesake James Harden’s MVP season, this black, gold and blue edition of the Vol. 2 features a sock-like inner that’ll mould to the wearer’s foot, a custom lacing system and Adidas’ patented Boost sole, meaning they’ll be as comfortable on court as off.

Buy Now: £139.95

Nike Zoom KD11

Flyknit might be the most significant new shoe material in recent memory, given that it features on seemingly every new Nike trainer these days. It’s utilised to full effect on the KD11, the latest shoe in Kevin Durant’s signature line. It’s lightweight, comfortable and supple, and while these aren’t the most wearable off court in this colour way, it makes for a pleasing wool-like texture that complements more casual dress.

Buy Now: £129.95

Under Armour Curry 5

Stephen Curry has single-handedly put Under Armour on the map. The NBA All Star and all round good guy made the switch from Nike to UA in 2013, and has effectively doubled the brand’s sales revenue since then. The Curry 5 is the latest and best performance shoe the company’s made – it’s lightweight, features a full-knit upper to hug the foot as well as Anafoam cushioning for soft landings.

Buy Now: £115.00

Best Outdoor Basketball Shoes

Nike LeBron Soldier XII

An outdoor basketball shoe requires supreme cushioning and chunky rubber soles for the harsh concrete of local courts. These LeBrons offer just that, with their bouncy full Zoom Air unit in the sole, durable tread and crisscross strap offering secure lockdown over the top of the shoe.

Buy Now: £119.95

Jordan Fly Lockdown

Jordans haven’t always been the cheapest of shoes, but these aren’t going to break the bank, coming in under £100. Not only will they work on the hardtop – their in-built Zoom Air unit ensures that – they’ll also work off court. The classic red and black Jordan colour way and futuristic design will pair well with a T-shirt and jeans.

Buy Now: £94.95

Adidas Dame 4

An easy-to-wear style as suitable off court as on, Damian Lillard’s signature is a best seller for Adidas and it’s easy to see why. They tick the current basketball shoe obsession – a sock-like upper construction – but, importantly for outdoor hooping, they boast thick rubber soles, which almost pass for chunky trainer styling.

Buy Now: £99.95

Best Cheap Basketball Shoes

Nike Kyrie Flytrap

A no-fuss, top quality pair that’ll serve you well indoors or out. Designed for quick, nimble players, the textured knit upper and Zoom air cushioning are a comfy combination, and the all black colour scheme ensures they’re inoffensive for a post game trip to the pub.

Buy Now: £79.95

Under Armour Curry 3ZERO

While not the prettiest, these UAs are a steal coming in under £35. For that you get a Steph Curry signature spin-off shoe, complete with subtle ‘SC’ branding on the tongue. It’s a solid all-round performer that won’t fail to impress.

Buy Now: £34.50

Nike Zoom Live II

This pair benefits from Zoom Air cushioning and Flywire cables for good lockdown on the forefoot – two things usually reserved for shoes way out of this price range. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a gum sole?

Buy Now: £72.00

Nike Air Force 1 Low

Coming in at a full ten pounds cheaper than the mid-top (think of the beers), the Air Force 1 low is a design classic in its own right. It’s paved the way for numerous chunky low-tops and continues to be a staple over thirty years since it first came out – wear it with jeans, joggers, T-shirts, sweatshirts, the choice is yours.

Buy Now: £69.99

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401 : MIND MAP De-construction OF Taz

15th NOVEMBER 2017

CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING:

Influenced by a very young age from music it was my saver my soul jus felt so complete wen i would hear music and dance, so being born in the early 90s i grew up listening to a lot of early 90s hip-hop, living in Australia we only got american and english music Australian music wasn't massive in the pop charts to an extent. Also growing up in a remote place our town almost felt like an island coz beautiful beaches backed onto bush,so its a madd mix between Island Music and Rap to Hip-hop to everything.

So i would listen to a lot of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Dancehall TO

2000′s west coast Rap including Dr.Dre, SnoopDogg, Eazy E, TO

Missy Elliot, Eminem, Mariah Carrey, Beyonce, Destiny Child, Craig Davis, Lana DelRay, Lauryn Hill, Rhianna, Nicki Minaj TO

Nina Simone, Hot Chocolate, George Micheal, Whitney Houston, AND

everything from Afrobeats, Bashment, Soul, Jazz

This is a picture of my Home town GERALDTON , W.A, 6530

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iIMAGE AND IDENTITY:

I believe our image and identity is always evolving (for some), but everything in your life you come across the people you come across the experiences, everything shapes you weather you want it to or not.

But for me all of that includes but what i try indulge my self into for myself coz of how i iz and who i iz as a spirit and soul , I have a very unique and different energy and vibrations but what that has branched from would be:

Growing up in remote place always wondering what else is out there,

Having to realise to get anywhere in life and out of this little town I’VE gotta do it for MYSELF and BY MYSELF = Solitaire = Elighqment Consciousness Awakening = Spiritually Awoken = Spiritual Guidance = Your road to your reason...

Olive Skinned English- Australian , Mum was born in Bristol and went to Australia when she was young so I jus coming back to the roots coz i didn't feel Australia was where i belong kinda. Was born in Australia

Loud, Engeries, Tattoos, Open Minded, Love, Kind, But don't F**k me off

Mind over matter, Stay focused, Manifest Law of attraction

Snoopdogg - inspired how he created his own clothing line and when was launched only wore his WEST COAST brand

Rhianna, Missy Elliot, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Lil Kim, Lauryn Hill = ME

HIP-HOP > CULTURE > RUSTA > VAULES & ACKNOWLEDGES OF SELF

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CREATIVE OUTPUT:

My creative output for where I iz at currently in NOVEMBER 2017 as a producer, an artist, always a student because I'm always learning am about to start getting back into learning the keyboard and guitar again, and also just started to undertake producing for an artist aswell, there is only so much i do know and what i can learn for output coz I'm trying to do a lot of things at ounce, but so far for my Production side I have a

Soundcloud >INSTAGRAM > Youtube >> DANKprodcution > Instrumentals

As an Artist I currently am working on a mixtape so i don't put anything out as i would like to but i also would prefer it to be not rushed and more perfect and i guess because I'm still trying to0 find my sound as I'm producing for myself for what i want the world to hear me as is still creating/building well more trying to get me myself and my should into music.

As i am who i iz I have always been a crazy, loud, soul.

i always dance when i hear music i LOVE dancing,

I am currently starting my own clothing line starting with Tracksuits so basically sports urban wear so look out on INSTAGRAM for the dropping of that.

so hopefully that will help everything bounce of each other so from wearing my clothing i get free cloths ,my famz and fans help promote and they get clothing when they wear it and followers following me will follow them vis-versa , it will pre-mote the production side of my business, as an artist i will always wear my own clothing so people that only see me as an artist this will promote my production and the business of the clothing

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EXPERIENCE:

As the age of where i iz today 23, i have found that the experiences i have been thru changes me on every occasion from Leaving my Home town to Perth witch was 4 hours south, the moving to Melbourne in Victoria ,Australia which was 4 hour flight across 2 boarders, than moving to London which was a 24 hour flight all by myself. Being in England by myself don't really have any close family well non known of besides the family have made with the people i have met. I have gone thru a lot in the last 3 years.

Being away from my sister and cousin and niece and nephew is defiantly the hardest thing but the future will be so much better for us..

I love travelling, when i was in High School i didn't really pay attention coz in my soul i knew that the only way to learn is and the best way is to travel, to places you never even known existed, cultures you've never hurd about, and just to grow as a great person.. Iv been to California, Hawaii, Las Vagas, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand , Bali, New Zealand, Brazil, Spain, France, Scotland (jus for a drake concert so need to go back to explore).

Places i wanna go visit Jamaica, Caribbean of course, Cuba, Africa, like basically every country in the world if i can..

I was a chef for 5 years so i felt so missed out so from 16 to 21 i was working soon much 18 hour days 6-7 days a week some weeks i spent the last 2 years of my chaffing having an other job at night 4-7 days a weeks so basically spent 2 year not having a day off on 4-5 hours sleep a day, jus to change my life well slightly shift it to get out of cuffing and change my life to my music life.

I started dancing in clubs from 21 because it gave me the opportunities to pay for the music school i water to go to for 2 years, helped me move my life over to the UK, helped support my sister n her babies gave me the time during my weeks to basically “work” in my home studio from 4-8 hours a day 7 days a week if I'm not busy doing other things, oh and the dancing helped me get all my music equipment 3 times over because if the events that have happened iv even had to leave music equiptment behind, or its gotten stolen but its all gud..

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PRODUCT:

PRESENTS - My products i currently have is My digital product so Soundcloud, Youtube, Instagram.

Physical products is my DANK hoodie that i wear everywhere but other items is in the mix of surfacing jus finalising a few things

FUTURE - for future i would love to have a full collection of clothing, and eventually going into a badgyall luxury line swell of nights out an pretty face days.

Digitally to have a platform for me and my artist and eventually have my own record label to be able to have an empire of amazing musician. the platform will have my production side where i want to produce other artist and have them in my label, a side for me as an artist , a side for my artist, and jus for production where people can buy tracks or use them so for.

and than eventually have an orginization where people can learn, and jus indulge in the industry

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MARKET AWARENESS:

LABELS - I haven't really thought about the label side of things until i get a lil bit more comfortable and establish as myself than ill think about it.

VISUAL - Magazines including XXL, Rollingstone, The Source

Digital includes Youtube for interviews, and Documentaries

INDOURSMENTS- It would be nice to be endorsed by sport brands including ADIDAS, NIKE, PUMA, as you bounce of each other your fans see you in adidas and they go buy it vis-versa .

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CLIENT/FANBASE:

Currently i have just started producing for this lovely Gyal her name is Jade so this will be very excited to be able yo be apart of her journey to have the opportunities to create her mixtape.

The best thing i love about this project is i get the change to produce beats i wouldn't make for myself but would be proud to make and produce for some one else coz how jade is her style and everything i love so much and theres a lil side of that in me so i think thats why it would be a great project. so hopefully we get that exactly how she wants it , and than hopefully i can take on another artist ounce i can handle more. Eventually by 2020 to have 5 artist I'm producing for Mixtape to Album or what ever happens

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CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS:

FASHIION SIDE: Hopefully everybody i know that i have either met or personally know they will support me with buying my clothing from having an Australian store online and a UK one should be good and a wide rage of people.

MUSIC: My relations i have in the music scene in UK is

Newcastle: Kashy

Leeds: Paddyf, Direct

London: Jahlani, Mega, Mass Mon, Dabeatfreakz, TazDmt,

INDUSTRY AWARENESS:

At the moment i don't have the biggest awareness within the industry but what i do know or kinda know off is including:

Deals > INDOURSMENTS > bookings > MANAGEMENT > publishment > GIGGS > a&r > etc etc

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