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#repost @be.optimystic New #optimystic tees are fun and they make you wanna bang your head. www.opti-mystic.com #brandonboyd #incubus #beoptimystic #gobuy https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn1_4OzLqMY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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REVIEW: The Forrest Williams Democracy - "The Optimyst" (2023 single)
THE FORREST WILLIAMS DEMOCRACY – “The Optimyst” (2023 single)
Forrest Williams, Scott Maybee, and Matt DeMatteo are back with their third single (check out the first two if you missed ’em), and this is the best one yet. The Democracy play a hard-to-pigeonhole mixture of 90s and classic rock with a dose of progressive, among other elements. When these elements fuse, the molecules of music…
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#big wreck#Forrest Williams#hard rock#Matt DeMatteo#progressive rock#Scott Maybee#The Forrest Williams Democracy#The Optimyst
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"no, i definitely think he was high." an aura reader would probably have been the most normal thing that happened to them that week. but she wasn't buying it. was that even something people could do? she didn't think bonnie could. "okay, sure . . . but a new beginning isn't necessarily a good thing. what if it's symbolizing the beginning of the end?" she didn't mean to be such a downer, but with the way her life was going these days, it was hard to stay optimistic. she didn't know how rapunzel and caroline did it. at least caroline could make a b-positive joke. @shesdaylight was just . . . a light in the dark. she always had a way of making elena feel better. "sorry. sorry, you're probably right. we should go to the grill and get shots to celebrate this new beginning," she teased, wiggling her eyebrows.
#it's the way i typed optimystic so confidently#then wondered why it had a red squiggly line saying it was a typo#shesdaylight#INTERACTIONS – elena gilbert.#ELENA GILBERT + rapunzel carter.#also hi i missed you <3 i kept looking longingly at drafts for u
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Okay. Yeah. I've seen the post.
I'm not panicking and you shouldn't either.
What I am going to suggest is that us indie artist & writer folx - @thebibliosphere , @seananmcguire , @dduane , @simakai , @somecunttookmyurl , @renthony , @mayakern , @fatsexybitch , @natalieironside, @lauraannegilman , @optimysticals , @theshitpostcalligrapher - tag others, I know I'm forgetting so many people - should probably chat about where we want to start building community.
Like, we gotta. That's an unfortunate part of being a creative in the world as it is. So rather than wandering in various directions and hoping people will follow us, we might wanna like... try to do things in an organized fashion. Or at least a semi-organized fashion.
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Optimystic 'Hip Hop Temperament' EP Ft. Sticky Fingaz, Cappadonna & More
Optimystic ‘Hip Hop Temperament’ EP Ft. Sticky Fingaz, Cappadonna & More
Optimystic, an Australian MC releases a 6-track EP titled ‘Hip Hop Temperament.’ The release follows the global success of his ‘Salty Waterz’ albums. ‘Hip Hop Temperament’ features pioneers and vets including Sticky Fingaz, Cappadonna, Killah Priest, Kali Ranks, Compton Menace, Strictly D.T, Big Twins, JR, Jarren Benton, and MDMC.
Optimystic delivers aggressive, gritty lyricism which is…
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#australia#Emcee#ep#Hip Hop#hip hop temperament#indie hip hop#indie hip hop artist#New Music#optimystic
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You ever get an idea that just won't leave you alone? Last winter the Top Gun brain rot hit hard and then spawned "formalwear inspired by Iceman's helmet". Luckily I have friends willing to enable me.
The gown was off the rack though I designed and constructed the shoulder accents myself. I learned how to trace and manipulate photos in Procreate! A friend traced the screen-used helmet insignia and vectorized it, while another friend designed and made it into a necklace. The F-14 earrings were also his idea. (@optimysticals you're the best.)
The cuff bracelet with the callsign I made myself (the inside secretly has "bullshit, you can be mine" in Maverick's handwriting font).
The glasses are not actually screen-accurate because I liked these Randolph aviator sunglasses much better than Ice's American Opticals or Mav's Ray-Bans.
The Top Gun logo on the clutch was done on my Cricut, because I only use it for ridiculous stuff like this. Some of it is silver glitter cardstock and the rest is red or blue vinyl.
Photos by Dana Kae Photography at Northlight Studio.
#top gun#iceman#tom kazansky#tom iceman kazansky#val kilmer#top gun 1986#top gun cosplay#couture cosplay#cosplay#costume#fashion#tom “iceman” kazansky#f 14 tomcat#f-14
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I did it
Crucially, I did it with my bleeding guillotine earrings from @optimysticals
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Vitesse X’s Favorite 23 Songs of 2023
(In no particular order)
Full List: https://musicwebsite.substack.com/p/vitesse-x-music-websites-favorite
Scorpio - James K, hoodie
This World Couldn’t See Us - Nabihah Iqbal
Out of My Head - LUXE, Tom Place
Jetski - Tiberius b
Sunnbrella - Fever Dream
Rinsed - Dean Blunt, TYSON
Three Drums - Four Tet
IRL - Tapeworms
Satisfy You - George Riley
Array - DJ_Dave
This is New York - ScarLip
Once then we’ll be free - Wisp
On & On (Again) - Confidence Man, Daniel Avery
Summer Glass - Julie Byrne
Daddy - Nourished by Time
A Vision - Avalon Emerson
I Got Heaven - Mannequin Pussy
Spiral - Waterbaby
Feed the Fire - Pearly Drops
Headlights On - Wild Nothing, Hatchie
Times Square - Jam City, Aidan
Sound-Image Concept - DV-i
Ugly - voyeur
Top 5 Remixes:
Scream (death’s dynamic shroud remix) - WTRGRL, death’s dynamic shroud
Puzzle (Kate NV Remix) - Tapeworms, Kate NV
Dragonlie (feat. Sassy 009) - Agar Agar, Sassy 009
Pop Sar (Chaeyoung Remix) - Coco & Clair Clair, Chaeyoung
Mystery Boy (Vegyn Remix) - Sassy 009, Vegyn
Top 10 tracks that I’ve added to my DJ sets
Sunrise In the Crater (I Exist) - Sleep D
Whispers - Rave Mix - Shanti Celeste, Hodge
Passive Massive - ANF, Priori, Dust-e-1
OPTIMYSTIC -Guy Contact
VT Trad - Spray
Quer Dançar - Amor Satyr
Delusion - Bliss Inc
Maintain - Cybotron
zero press - Seven Davis Jr.
Octave One - Tiers (Level A)
#vitesse x#best of 2023#Best Songs of 2023#Best Tracks of 2023#Best Remix#Best remixes#James K#Nabihah Iqbal#LUXE#Tom Place#Tiberius b#Fever Dream#Dean Blunt#TYSON#Four Tet#Tapeworms#George Riley#DJ Dave#ScarLip#Wisp#Confidence Man#Daniel Avery#Nourished by Time#Avalon Emerson#Mannequin Pussy#Waterbaby#Perly Drops#Wild Nothing#Hatchie#Jam City
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Steak here: www.mixcloud.com/mediajorge/messy-lil-mixtapes-optimystic-disco
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I've been teaching myself how to do 3-d rendering as a way to expand what we can do jewelry wise for Optimystical Studios. It's slow going because a lot of the ways things are structured doesn't make sense to my brain.
BUT!
I was able to take a few of the small things I've learned and create a charm I've been wanting to have for a few years.
YES FOLKS I MADE A BRICK!
It might not seem like much but I was able to do it without looking up any tutorials and I managed to get it to do all the things I wanted that I had been struggling with on other projects (like properly removing material for the holes and softening the edges).
And now I can cast little metal bricks to go with our Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson charms!
The one in the photo is my first test cast in sterling because I wasn't sure if the loop was going to be big enough. While it did work in silver I don't think it will work in pewter, so I'm going to make a version with a slightly beefier loop before I cast a bunch of pewter ones.
But look at it! It's so good!
I still need to do final finishing. And the pewter ones will be getting a texture put on them after casting to make them look a little more brick like. But I am so excited I just had to share.
So... Happy Pride everyone!
Remember: The First Pride Was A Riot
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ABOULIA
So, God save the King eh? At 100 million pounds, his cosplay bash was well worth the moolah…indeed, my bosom swelled with pride to read that Take That, Lionel Richie and two of the Muppets were there to aid the celebrations. Nothing but the best for GB. A few houses around here still have massive British flags hanging down from 2nd floor windows, one has a long string of pennants attached down to a broken wall. Nice metaphor. Those against the monarchy were arrested outside the coronation whether or not they had padlocks, rape alarms and superglue with which to protest. Peaceful protest in a democracy? Stay at home and rant quietly lest thy neighbours report thee. Had a chat with a woman up the street about Brexit and patriotism…who said; ‘The Scottish are Scots, the Welsh are Welsh, the Irish are Irish but the English are British’.
Imagine this mentality multiplied on similar themes all over the world, and we get the current Russian war, Sudan, racists, Arab wars, Trump fans, Chinese ‘communists’, fundamentalists etc, etc. THIS group, OUR group are the most important, enslave the others and if they disagree with such inhuman bondage, punish until pliant or just kill them. Behold, the Elite have become as Gods. Robert Anton Wilson said that he had always taken the viewpoint that sure there was an elite running the world…and it was him and his friends. A more optimystic viewpoint to have, good humour is better for the immune system than hatred, says Dave, arf arf.
Very glad to see Finland join NATO in April, Turkey and Hungary continue to hum and haa over Sweden assession as the former are moaning about Kurds and the latter because of the suspension of EU funds, cancelled due to its dodgy practices…Orban is not really a big fan of democracy…the Trump of Eastern Europe, still trying to stay mates with Vlad. As is Erdogan. Massive human rights violations under him ensured Turkey won’t be getting into the Good Guys club (arf) of the EU anytime soon. However, they are both in NATO (Turkey has the second largest army) and should know far better than to kow tow to Putin on any level. Let’s hope the May 14th election will up seat Racip Tayyip. Get him out, peacefully but surely.
An American parent complained that a school history trip featuring Michelangelo’s statue of David was ‘pornographic’ and suddenly the principal is sacked. One parent. Of a 12-year-old. A modest, circumcised stone penis and testicles is offensive? Must have been a ‘christian’. The western world 2023; Art is pornography now. And Kali bless the NRA. People should be aggressively tested for intelligence before they are allowed to have children. Especially in America. How do these ‘adults’ function on this planet? What next, Mona Lisa veiled because of the curve of her breast and suggestive smile? The masses are dumb partly because they pander to the minority of the dumber.
Apparently, the international arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Belova (Children’s Rights Commissioner (sic) for Baldhead) are ‘outrageous and unacceptable’. Invasion, murder and mass kidnap deportations of children for reprogramming are not decent legal reasons? Ok. Foully rotten to see the two Ruscist slapheads Prigozhin and mad Vlad dick measuring over ammunition and dead bodies. And today, the glorious May Day Victory parade in Moscow featured one tank. Not quite Beijing or Pyongyang standards. ‘The world is at a turning point’ said Vlad, still ranting about the ‘nazis’ in Ukraine. That would be the nazis who democratically elected a Jewish actor as their president. Seems likely huh? And again with ‘the West wants to destroy Russia’ rhetoric. No they don’t Vlad, just you and your band of criminals. You are not Russia.
Xi Jinping in Moscow, still slyly giving tacit and very complicit support for the War as they don’t much approve of areas seeking to remain independent of big brother. (Witness also, their keen support for the mass murdering Myanmar junta) Winnie the Pooh, leader for life just like Putin. Tik Tok/tick tock you bastards. At least Xi seems to have chosen his successor…Surely Mad Vlad is not loopy enough to think the appallingly insane Medvedev could take over? Lock them all together in a bunker with one pistol.
Meanwhile the West must utterly excrete (I said excrete not execute) Trump and Boris. Might just be possible (please Shiva) but unlikely the East will ever get shot of (I said shot of not shoot) Putin and Pooh. As said before in other formats by my hand, the West might be decadent liars and killers but those in the East make us look like clones of the Dalai Lama. How will the world ever move forward into love, peace and net zero? AI has the solution…remove the need for any humanity whatsoever. Or improve and evolve them. Now there’s an idea, quick, trap it, regulate it, drive it underground to build in supressed power…
Boris Johnson swore to tell the whole truth about Partygate but did he FK? He needs to be swamped with lawsuit after lawsuit just like his brother in harm Trump. The perfect empty reality tv stars of the West with Megan Markle as their Victim Queen. Risible Sunak goes to school giving a lecture about the importance of Maths, failing to appreciate the bitter irony of his mis handling of his previous job and the billions lost due to foul pandemic deals, cronies and Brexit. And his own extended family getting business deals via policy….
Conservatives Thatcher and Major led the country for 18 years and the government was a brown shower of corruption by its end, leading to a landslide victory by Tony Blair which kept the Labour party in power (don’t count Gordon Brown) for 13 years, also ending in scandal and corruption. This current gang of criminals and morons of the Tory party have now been in power for 13 years. And this country has been irrevocably ruined by them. (Opinion based on stats and business reports.) There is no possible way Labour can shore up the finances, employment, and health care system of this country in a term or two unless some type of V for Vendetta type crackdown (but this time for real) is enforced. So we will be treated to the sight of bullshitter Boris et al ridiculing the new Government as they wade through a swamp of sewage which they will inherit. Much the same way as the Republicans did when Obama took over the massive deficit they had created and for which they then blamed him.
The holy DAO…a decentralised autonomous organisation free of governmental control and hierarchies, sounds good? As usual, depends on the character of the humans involved. Hierarchies always develop according to variations on the food chain and even an equally skilled pack (animal or man) working as a team will allow pragmatic nature to select a top dog. The round table still reserved the biggest chair for the king. Use nationalism, religion, fear, a cocktail of all three. Never fails. Never will. Kill for your country, protect your family and uphold the common values. (But Sir, what if the common values are based on wilful ignorance due to obviously selectively released information and encouraged prejudice? Questions a timid voice from the back of the class.)
Politicians are advised of underling psychology and act accordingly. The constant daily manipulation of the millions who are seemingly unable to think for themselves, apparently prefer the clearly corrupt to control their reactions for them. Stir the mass, wind them up and watch them go, basing reactions on whipped up emotion rather than actual facts. Country after country, group after group. Still blaming the Bignoses (or, if you are Russian, the Bignoses AND the Nazis, not quite yet understanding their own current actions and words are in no way dissimilar to Nazis.) What are all these poor little racist didums going to do when Soros departs for higher planes? The good Christians will have to get louder about Bill Gates or the dodgy android Zuckerberg. Or Elon…
(Musk says Artificial intelligence is a dangerous thing, while buying into it. ‘Civilisation destruction’ a strong possibility he said, while buying into it. After all, who wants to be left behind in the race to destroy humanity and make money? Loved the beautiful press release from Elon’s people that his spaceship Starship (arf) experienced a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation’. I will call my next mental breakdown that. Unless he has copywritten it already.)
‘If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers’ Thomas Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow. The West and East will never stop their chosen methods of manipulation, why should they when they work so well? Millions’ noisy addictive focused attention on the dreams of fake lives in fame and glamour and millions more afraid of the totalitarian knock on the door. Almost all avoiding the question of ‘Who are these whorepigs governing us? ‘And ‘Can any among us truly rule fairly when man lacks consistent self-control?’. The instinct to survive turns into greed, More ! is never satisfied, so faster and faster swirling into the void of absolute entropy upon which leaders have tried to enforce control, but have failed (and will continue to do so) because they have spent centuries hollowing the centre.
‘Democracy is indispensable to socialism’. Lenin, hmmm, he also said: ‘It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be rationed’. Easy to say when your boss has all the gulags. ‘A lie told often enough becomes the truth’, and don’t the leaders on all sides just believe that as an immutable fact? Whereas when one repeats a provable fact, it maintains its structural integrity in the face of unbelieving ridicule That said, even E=MC squared is only a pixel in the cosmic landscape. It is the thoughts of ‘God’ which are the sub atomic particles transforming to waves, once observed by the individual which flow through mirrors of ‘neural pathways’ in all dimensions.
This is me sober, just on Alta Rica coffee in the afternoon, listening to The Stargazers Assistant, Mirrors and Tides, Shivers and Voids on headphones. With a crunchy red apple, just before a colossal rain storm. And a day later with Popol Vuh’s beauty on speakers, trying hard to avoid the crushing aboulia which is now constantly at the door of the heart. Dopamine circuits malfunctioning. When my respect for someone ends, they are Done, never been afraid to cull dead weight and now…it has come round to me. Like best friends, I have given myself many extra undeserved chances but now as Leonard said ‘the evidence accumulates’ and has become overwhelming…Need to do a couple more decent things with a new Will once the overlong and criminal process of inheritance tax is over months from now and then let go.
A lady up my road lost her husband last month to rapid onset dementia; I had met him some weeks before and had a fine thirty-minute conversation on many topics. He had been a gunner in bombers in the second world war and adored music, but during his last two weeks when his wife brought him tapes to the hospital of Mozart et al, he ordered her ‘Turn that noise off’. I had always thought that however ill I would get in the future, as long as I could hear music, there would be still be joy in life. Never occurred to me how the brain can change its mind so definitively about what was Loved.
Shivered.
‘I dream of a government that resembles jury service’. Jaz. Damn right. People who want to serve and improve/evolve society. A group only in temporary power for a fixed length of time before being replaced by similar albeit individual minds. Not years of lying greedy scumbags changing laws to suit their needs and handing out contracts to their mates before checking they can actually deliver. The flaws in this idea remain large and revolve around finding humans who are actually steadfast but flexible, rationally intuitive, good hearted without being wishy washy and strong enough to remain incorruptible by vested interests. Hmm, seems verrry likely. So, just allow nuclear war by arseholes or AI to breed humans the right way. A Matrix Terminator future. Or?
Happy springtime rising into summer, stay healthy, be free, realise in glimpses.
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Clap ya hands and say yeah. See our new #optimystic capsule! Via @be.optimystic #brandonboyd #incubus https://www.instagram.com/p/CpjMU9pt93L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Guy Contact - “Optimystic”
Out of My Head (Into My Body) [X-Kalay, 2023]
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Never Look Down (feat. Saxman Sam)
Creative and lyrically focused songwriter and producer Pseudo Ra, who’s making waves in Tampa, Florida links with Myles Optimystic for this song about freedom of speech. It’s great to hear some substantial lyrics and a message we can learn from! Strong song overall.
“We value the supremacy of artistic expression over the authoritarian forces of socioeconomic, and political power.”
https://instagram.com/pseudo_ra
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I saw your post about target and had never heard of breakfast gays or optimystical before, do you by chance know of any queer folks making wooden hair sticks? (also, feel free to turn this into a general post about favorite queer jewelry folks)
I don't know, but someone might chime in!
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