The universe works on a math equation that never even ever really even ends in the end, infinity spirals out Creation and we’re on the tip of its tongue and it is saying

“Well, we ain’t sure where you stand: You ain’t machines and you ain’t land. The plants and the animals, they are linked. And the plants and the animals eat each other.”

The incomparable @hookedhobbies tagged me in this little game to share six albums I've been listening to recently and my favorite song from each. 1. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse I've been relistening to a lot of music that I was deep into in high school and college while at work lately. This album is INCREDIBLY nostalgic for me, and Modest Mouse is a band that's really special to me as it was the first band that made me feel something, way back when. It's hard to pick one favorite song honestly but Lives is probably the one that hits home a little harder for me now that I'm older.

2. Bang - Empires Do not get me started on Empires. I am still devastated that they no longer make music. This band is 75% at fault for the way I am. Every song on this album is a banger but I Know You Know is a prime example of their signature sex-fueled lust anthems.

3. The Money Store - Death Grips I don’t have an explanation for this. It is what it is. I’ve Seen Footage or Get Got are a vibe.

4. Patient Demos - Blacklit Canopy I don't want to talk about this. Don’t Let the World Swallow You.

5. Rivers of Heresy - Empire State Bastard I get the feeling these guys are one of those bands where you either dig them or you can’t stand them but personally I’m pumped as fuck to see them in May. I love how obvious the singer's accent is sometimes, it brings me a weird sense of joy haha. Moi? is my favorite track by far.

6. Blackshape - Blackshape The first time I heard ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL and watched the video for it, i was inconsolable for hours. Now it's the soundtrack to all of my sad and bitterly hopeful fics that will never see the light of day haha.

This was a hoot and a half and would love to see @lilac-hecox, @sleepanonymous and @ladykatie512 do this, if they are so inclined! (as always, zero pressure if you don't want to, beloveds)

“Opener ‘Wicker Casket’ is an almost mellow Gothic song with an echoey vocal tonality and complex and clever layering that immediately resonated with this writer. It’s a beautiful, ethereal song that is a big portent of things to come. ‘Leather Wings (The Blood Is Life)’ is almost stoner music, the type I would play after returning home from a night out at the local Goth/Metal club after a few beers and lyrically it takes its cue (I suspect) from Stokers Dracula and Leviticus.

‘Thousand Eyes Restrict’ continues in the same vein and although they don’t really sound like them I am occasionally reminded of Modest Mouse, both acoustically and percussion-wise. This is probably the most traditional-sounding Goth song on the album and is a prime example “

Star Wars Karaoke Preferences Part 1 - Clones

Howdy!

This is a little something that @eyecandyeoz and myself put together. We were chatting about what we thought each star war character would sing on karaoke night, and this is what we came up with! We have also included links to the songs, so that you can picture them singing it in your minds eye.

Part 1 is dedicated to our brave clone troopers. There's some proper bangers in here! Also we will not be explaining why we chose each song. This is the hill we are willing to die on.

Sorry in advance if we have missed anyone!

The 501st, 212th and Bonus Mentions will be done by me (@captxin-rex)

@eyecandyeoz: Clone Force 99, The Coruscant Guard and the 104th will be done by me.

The 501st (Torrent Company) ~

Captain Rex: Hero by Enrique Iglesias (https://youtu.be/koJlIGDImiU)

Fives: Everybody (Backstreet's Back) by the Backstreet Boys (https://youtu.be/6M6samPEMpM)

Hardcase: She's Enough by Atmosphere (https://youtu.be/wMNNwa46Plg)

Jesse: SexyBack by Justin Timberlake ft. Timbaland (https://youtu.be/3gOHvDP_vCs)

Kix: Symphony of Destruction by Megadeath (https://youtu.be/K5jvUXij7nU)

Tup: Whip My Hair by Willow Smith (https://youtu.be/bmaErg4FUAc)

Dogma: Super Bass by Nicki Minaj (https://youtu.be/4JipHEz53sU)

The 212th (Ghost Company) ~

Commander Cody: Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley (https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)

Waxer and Boil (along with Numa) How Far I'll Go from Moana (https://youtu.be/cPAbx5kgCJo)

Wooley: SING by My Chemical Romance (https://youtu.be/hTgnDLWeeaM)

Clone Force 99 (The Bad Batch) ~

Wrecker: This is Me from the Greatest Showman (https://youtu.be/CjxugyZCfuw)

Echo: Love You Less by Kevin Garret (https://youtu.be/HBEIpWjRh20)

Hunter: Highway Tune by Greta Van Fleet (https://youtu.be/aJg4OJxp-co)

Tech: *Asterisk - Orange Range (https://youtu.be/HlrgJrCltIM)

Crosshair: Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood (https://youtu.be/GCdwKhTtNNw)

The Coruscant Guard (Shock Troopers) ~

Commander Fox: Hot Blood - Kaleo (https://youtu.be/p6PuTFmn_ds)

Commanders Thorn and Thire (duet): Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins (https://youtu.be/yK0P1Bk8Cx4)

Sergeant Hound: Who Let The Dogs Out by Baha Men (https://youtu.be/ojULkWEUsPs)

104th (Wolfpack) ~

Commander Wolffe: Wolf in Jesus Skin by Polkadot Cadaver (https://youtu.be/pQ9PyuSGA04)

Sinker and Boost (duet): In Our Bedroom After The War by Stars (https://youtu.be/qotDKQHxySk)

Comet: Dramamine by Modest Mouse (https://youtu.be/tvqlt7OWTOk)

Warthog: Time In a Tree by Raleigh Ritchie (https://youtu.be/VB30oo2YYf4)

Corvis: Otherside by Avi Kaplan (https://youtu.be/0DArPxJDoIU)

Bonus Mentions ~

Hevy, Cutup and Droidbait (together): Overkill by Men At Work (https://youtu.be/RY7S6EgSlCI)

Gregor: I am a Man of Constant Sorrow by Soggy Bottom Boys (https://youtu.be/wQ5BFivMwxU)

99: I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders (https://youtu.be/bLpmj059JFA)

Commander Bly (duet with Aayla Secura): A Whole New World by from Aladdin (https://youtu.be/Eq-eQKoEycM)

Omega: Hey Ya by Avriel & The Sequoias (https://youtu.be/whBQCkhFwYg)

Yes so these are our song choices. We will not be taking questions at this time.

Tags: @hockeyjedi13 @radbatch @kratosfan6632466 @itsjml @by-the-primes @justalittlecloud @sstarwarsss

Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Writers

This isn’t a definitive list by the way, so please add names if you think I missed someone important (which I probably have).

WELSH WRITERS

Dannie Abse: poet, playwright and physician. A Doctor’s Register; Ghosts; Funland; Song For Pythagoras.

Gillian Clarke: poet, playwright and lecturer.  A Difficult Birth; The Sundial; Catrin.

Roald Dahl: author. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1964; The Twits, 1980; Fantastic Mr Fox, 1970; Danny, Champion of the World, 1975; The Witches, 1983. (I’m not going to list every book he’s ever written so these are just my childhood favourites.)

Ken Follett: author - thriller and historical fiction. The Century Trilogy, 2010-14; Kingsbridge Series, 1989-2020.

George Herbert: poet and priest. The Altar; Easter Wings.

Cynan Jones: author. The Dig, 2014.

Diana Wynne Jones: Welsh-English author. Howl’s Moving Castle, 1986-2008; Dalemark, 1979-93; Chrestomanci novels and short stories, 1977-2006; Derkholm, 1998-2000.

Philip Pullman: Welsh-English author. His Dark Materials, 1995-2000; The Book of Dust, 2017-; Sally Lockhart, 1985-94.

Kate Roberts: author. Traed mewn Cyffion (Feet in Chains/Feet in Stocks), 1936; Te yn y Grug (Tea in the Heather), 1959.

Bernice Rubens: author. The Elected Member, 1969; Madame Sousatzka, 1962; A Solitary Grief, 1991.

Owen Sheers: poet, author, playwright and presenter. Farther; Y Gaer/The Hill Fort; The Dust Diaries, 2004; Resistance, 2007; The Green Hollow (”film-poem”), 2016.

Dylan Thomas: poet, author and scriptwriter. Do not go gentle into that good night; And death shall have no dominion; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, 1940; A Child’s Christmas In Wales, 1955; Under Milk Wood, 1954.

Gwyn Thomas: author, playwright, columnist, and broadcaster. All Things Betray Thee, 1949.

Sarah Waters: Welsh-English author. Tipping the Velvet, 1998. Fingersmith, 2002.

Hedd Wyn: poet. Yr Arwr; Rhyfel; Plant Trawsfynydd.

SCOTTISH WRITERS

Iain Banks (sometimes Iain M. Banks): author - mainstream and sci-fi. The Wasp Factory, 1984; Walking On Glass, 1985; Culture novels, 1985-2012 (can be read as standalones - I recommend Excession).

Robert Burns: poet. Auld Land Syne; To a Mouse; Scots Wha Hae; Tom o’ Shanter; O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast.

Arthur Conan Doyle: author, poet, playwright and physician. Sherlock Holmes stories.

Jenni Fagan: author and poet. The Panopticon, 2012; The Sunlight Pilgrims, 2016.

Janice Galloway: author and poet. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, 1989.

Alasdair Gray: author, artist, poet and playwright. Lanark, 1981; Poor Things, 1992.

James Kelman: author and playwright. How Late It Was, How Late, 1994; Greyhound For Breakfast, 1987.

Val McDermid: author - crime and thriller. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, 1995-2019; A Place of Execution, 1999.

Denise Mina: crime and comic author and playwright. Conviction, 2019; Garnethill, 1998-2001; Paddy Meehan, 2005-07; John Constantine, Hellblazer, #216-228

Maggie O’Farrell: Irish-Scottish author. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, 2007; After You’d Gone, 2000; I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death, 2017.

James Robertson: author and poet. The Testament of Gideon Mack, 2006; And the Land Lay Still, 2010.

Walter Scott: author, poet and playwright. The Lady of the Lake, 1810; Ivanhoe, 1820; The Bride of Lammermoor, 1819.

Ali Smith: author. How to Be Both, 2014; Seasonal 2017-20; There but for the, 2011.

Muriel Spark: author, poet and essayist. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961; The Ballad of Peckham Rye, 1960; A Far Cry from Kensington, 1988.

Robert Louis Stevenson: author. Treasure Island, 1883; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886; Kidnapped, 1886.

Alan Warner: author. Morvern Callar, 1995.

Irvine Welsh: author and screenwriter. Trainspotting, 1993; Skagboys, 2012.

Louise Welsh: author - psychological thriller. The Cutting Room, 2002.

IRISH WRITERS

John Banville: author, critic and scriptwriter. The Sea, 2005; The Frames Trilogy, 1989-95.

Samuel Beckett: author, director, playwright, poet and translator. Waiting For Godot, 1954; Molloy, 1951; Malone Meurt, 1951;  L’innommable, 1953.

Maeve Binchy: author, playwright and columnist. Tara Road, 1998; Circle of Friends, 1990; A Week in Winter, 2012.

Elizabeth Bowen: author. The Last September, 1929; Eva Trout, 1968; The Death of the Heart, 1938.

John Boyne: author. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, 2006; The Heart’s Invisible Furies, 2017.

Emma Donoghue: Irish-Canadian author, playwright, screenwriter and literary historian. Room, 2010; Slammerkin, 2000.

Anne Enright: author. The Gathering, 2007; The Green Road, 2015.

Josephine Hart: author, producer and presenter. Damage, 1991.

Seamus Heaney: poet, playwright and translator. Digging; Strange Fruit; In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge; Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, 1999.

James Joyce: author, critic, poet and teacher. Ulysses, 1922; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916.

Molly Keane: author and playwright. Good Behaviour, 1981; Devoted Ladies, 1934; Time After Time, 1983.

C. S. Lewis: author. The Chronicles of Narnia, 1950-56.

Iris Murdoch: author and philosopher. Under the Net, 1954; The Sea, the Sea, 1978.

Edna O’Brien: author, poet and playwright. The Country Girls Trilogy, 1960-64; August is a Wicked Month, 1965; A Pagan Place, 1970.

Frank O’Connor: author. Guests of the Nation, 1931; My Oedipus Complex, 1952; The Majesty of Law, 1936.

Nuala O’Faolain: author, journalist, producer, critic and teacher. Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, 2003; Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, 1996.

Bram Stoker: author. Dracula, 1897.

Jonathan Swift: author, satirist, essayist, poet and cleric. Gulliver’s Travels, 1726; A Modest Proposal, 1729.

Oscar Wilde: author, poet and playwright. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890; The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895.

W. B. Yeats: poet and playwright. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, 1890; Adam’s Curse, 1903; Easter 1916, 1916; The Second Coming, 1920; Cathleen Ní Houlihan, 1902.

Thank you so much for the tag @risemaclay-blog! <333 It's nice to be thought of. :3

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs (bruh, I can't even 10 half the time) you are contractually obligated to get to know better. (My introversion is stronger than your contract. But I shall try. XP)

Name: Melissa

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Aquarius (Probably Gemini Rising? I have to go find my Birth Certificate, haha)

Height: IDK, maybe 5'2".

Time: 12:10AM (PST, GMT-8)

Birthday: Feb 5th

Favorite Bands: Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Interpol, Gorillaz, Awolnation, Arcade Fire, Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Widowspeak, Placebo, The Wombats, Brand New, Blink-182, MCR, CHVRCHES, Purity Ring, Sleater-Kinney, more and I just can't remember them right now.

Favorite Solo Artists: Oliver Tree, Melanie Martinez, Grimes, NF, Lana del Rey, Sufjan Stevens, Jose Gonzalez, Jonsi, Tune-Yards, Beth Jeans Houghton, Alex Winston, Imogen Heap, Annie Clark, Eddie Vedder, Damien Rice, Bo En, Porter Robinson...

Last Movie: Children of the Sea (unfinished), last finished was Coco on Disney+.

When did I create this blog: Jan 2020, or maybe Dec 2019, I do not recall lol.

What I post: Uhhhh, shit nothing? XD Guess fanfics and fanart, but pretty rarely. I be drifting through life, yo.

Last thing I googled: "drop that phone dream about me", I was trying to remember the band that did that song. It's Broken Social Scene "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl".

Other blogs: NONE. None else here, and I'm still not even using my IG, hahaaaa~ha!

Do I get asks: 'Tis rare! I finally got 2 the other day! <33333

Why I chose my URL: It's my fanfiction pseudonym.

Following: I couldn't find that info, lol. It's gotta be less than my follower count, though. Maybe 35?

Followers: 266

Average hours of sleep: It's sporadic, so I dunno.

Instruments: I found my Ocarina of Time Ocarina, does that count? Sadly my fingers are too small to cover the holes. Q_Q I want the fairy ocarina really, really badly now. I'm just sad that the octave wouldn't be the same. SONG OF STORMS BITCHES! It won't be the same!

What am I wearing: PJs

Dream Job(s): Oh yeah, I thought this tag game was familiar... This is my third time with this one, haha! XD I don't have a dream job anymore, sorry. :\ I am a creator/artist by nature, but lately I'm just not quite feeling applying myself anymore. I might just slip into 'mediocrity', deluding myself into a false sense of comfort by eating and sleeping and gaming my life away.

Dream Trip: I would like to go UNESCO World Heritage Sites. I would also like to backpack through Asia and throw down money in Tokyo. Ah, wait, no. I should focus on a world trip solely around food, like the late great Anthony Bourdain.

Favorite Foods: Fire-roasted everything (whole fish, whole veggies, steak), Mexican Street Corn, Lomo Saltado Linguine(?), Nachos, Chile Relleno, Stuffed Shells, Lengua, Sashimi, (Spicy) Poke, Popeyes Fried Chicken (lul), Any lemon dessert (no meringue), Tiramisu, 'Fancy' Mac n Cheese with Peas and Ham, Sheperd's Pie, Shwarma, Potato Samosas, Pho (with everything and basil and extra lime), Sinigang, Bulalo, Lechon Kawali, Shanghai Lumpia, extra rich Tonkotsu Ramen (pea shoots, butter, onsen egg, fresh garlic or black garlic oil, sometimes spicy, sometimes finished off with vinegar. Gotta be thick noods all the way), Prime Rib (horseradish and mashed po~tatas), Banh Mi, Tom Kha Gai soup... Godammit, just take me to a buffet already!!! XD

Last Book I Read: I finally finished "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki". Apparently I chose the wrong Murakami novel to read first, whups. XD I really want to try to get through "Brave Story" by Miyuki Miyabe, but IT. IS. A. TOME!

Top 3 Fictional Universe I'd Like to Live In: How To Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Zelda... Honestly don’t know ‘bout that third one... A:TLA? Kiki’s Delivery Service? Pokemon? One Piece?? Neverland??? ^_^;;;;;

Tagging: @char-lotteral, @katarinahime, @angi1993, @twurg, @sunshinefamily, @spaciousignatius, uh, @everyone! Whoever wants to answer, go ahead! <3

i listened to the front bottoms in high school before i’d ever even heard a modest mouse song so i feel like i was already primed for aggressive folk-punk rock from fairly weird dudes lacking mellifluous singing voices

The Format

The Format

             I come from Mesa Arizona, a teen in the early years of the 2000’s. What a great time to be a teenager. A simpler time. No real social media or politics (for teens to care about at least). Music was life. Alternative and indie rock was in a unique prime. From angsty emo tunes to mellow ballads.

           In middle school I had been really into Weezer and The strokes. I sported a strokes patch on my binder and a kid burned me a Pinkerton Cd to which I was very grateful. My sister had shown me modest mouse which I liked but some of it still felt weird. While navigating my way through music during that music age and during those pivotal coming of age years in my life; I needed to decided what music was “me.” It was a process to select music that felt my own. I didn’t really enjoy most main stream stuff like hip hop or rap. But I didn’t totally feel myself listening to some of the underground music I was exposed to either. Of course there were classics but those were beloved by everyone.

           The Format was that band whose songs felt like my own. The music was mellow but fun to sing out loud. Nate had a unique voice but it didn’t sound strange. On the contrary I soon craved that voice. I had found MY music.

Most people first heard of the Format with “tune out” I think I first heard it on the radio. “The first single” and “give it up” really were the first tracks that called to me when I listened to a bit of interventions and lullabies. The EP songs were really good too. I wanted more but it was enough to last through the start of High school. I got my first car. An old blue 96’ Honda Civic with a faded roof. I saved up for a black paint job and named her black beauty. (With the fuzzy blue interior still included) I sang my heart out in that car. Through speeding tickets and every social event of my life. My trusty cd’s saw me through. The selection of music for each drive in that car were the bread and butter to my teenage days.

My senior year I worked part time at mesa public schools for class credit. I didn’t have a lot to do there so I spent most of the time in my cubical using a program to design CD labels. Using the school’s dime to print dozens of them I decorated my favorite cds. Music was life. I loved singing certain songs in my car more than I loved any boy I dated. I felt more feelings during a show and at concerts than I did at a dance with a date.

When Dog Problems came out I can vividly remember driving around for an hour with a car filled with teens to listen to the whole album. My best girlfriends and I had befriended a group of guys who loved the Format as much as I did. They definitely encouraged my girlfriends to like the band more, for that I was grateful. These boys truly got the talent of the format. We drove up and down the 101 and around the valley just reveling in the new album.

“It sounds more circus-y”

“Ya, more instruments and jazzy.”

“It’s so different. Play dog problems again so we can learn the words at that one part.”

           It was an album to play on repeat. While getting ready, driving to Scottsdale to nanny on the weekend, down the street to the store or to the Harkins movie theatre. 

Any chance I got to hear Nate’s voice and Sam’s guitar. Then the summer after I graduated, I finally got to see them live on the dog problems tour. To this day it holds the greatest moment in my long history of live music.

           During the song dog problems when Nate sang “flew back to phoenix…” he paused and then stopped altogether and put the mic down while the crowd cheered for probably three minutes straight. He looked like he might cry and we all were. Then he finished that part with the spazy yell/singing while his hands shook at his sides (the way only he can do) and it was incredible. It was then I discovered I needed to hear some songs live. I didn’t need to be in the front row, just present in the same room to hear songs that I had long loved on my car stereo. The compromise was always the song on that album that was mine. I sang it in my car and in the shower with all that I was. Matches was such a new sound and feel for me with Format music and it starts off the album Dog problems so well.

            I saw All American Rejects in concert twice on the same tour just to see The Format open for them. I went in AZ and UT, not so much for them, but it was my only way to see The Format live again. After a while, The Format didn’t have enough albums to fill my music needs. Especially the more I had to commute for work and all the driving during weekends for my social life. 

But it has consistently remained the band that I feel the most connection with for whatever reason. Most bands I really like one or two songs. Maybe more. But The Format I love every song and know every word. That isn’t impressive but it’s consistently true. 

Life has gone on I left Arizona and now live elsewhere. Arizona isn’t my home anymore but when I drive back to visit family I can’t listen to anything else from the 101 to east Mesa than The Format. Nate’s voice brings me back to my roots and my teen years that I rather enjoyed. I don’t have many regrets. What could be better for a teenager in Mesa during 2006 than driving around listening to the Format?

           When I heard the news that Sam and Nate were parting ways I was sad. The news of FUN down the road intrigued me. I went to a show in Tucson the first time FUN went around. Some of the songs were so dang catchy and new. Anything new and anything more with Nate’s voice was like a breath of fresh air for me and my burned out playlists. But during the show I found myself mostly excited to hear some old Format songs. It was a small show, we snagged the set list that was scribbled on a ripped sheet of lined paper in heavy black marker. And we even met Nate.

           He seemed pretty high but that didn’t matter. We took a picture with him and it wasn’t as pivotal as I thought meeting a singer would be. It was very underwhelming and honestly that was okay. Hearing him live was better than meeting him. I realized it wasn’t the band or the singer, it was their work that I loved.

           I got to see Fun again when their next album and tour came. It was last minute and I went with a friend whom I didn’t know from high school in my early Format days, but she and I sang and danced to the new hit songs now playing on the radio, super bowl commercials and TV shows. FUN had certainly taken off. I felt very happy for Nate, and I truly loved hearing him sing live again. But it didn’t live up to that dog problems tour when I first saw The format, and nothing ever will.

           Sharing music you love and the joy you feel when you hear someone listening to it is almost as wonderful as hearing it for the first time yourself. A cousin of mine really appreciated The Format. I remember him calling me and asking me what I thought about certain lines and lyrics from certain songs. We speculated about Nate and Sam’s lives and wondered what they meant.

           I also remember hearing his dad randomly sitting down with a guitar while I was visiting them once and I heard him start to play something from interventions and lullabies. They gave me the credit. It felt good. Another time this same extended family of mine were driving me somewhere and excitedly turned on a song by pink and awaited my reaction. Curious why they were showing me the song I waited until my ears perked at a familiar voice.

           “Hey is this…Nate from the Format singing with her?”

           “Took you long enough” they laughed.

I could have done nothing better for my cousins than share my music with them. And it certainly was MY music. I claimed ownership of loving the Format. As I’m sure many teens from Arizona at that time did too. But for me, it was especially true!

           It’s been more than a decade since I found them, so much life and music has occurred but today my sister tagged me in a post about the Format reuniting this year. 12 years after their split. Even more years since I first heard them. I immediately wanted to buy a plane ticket to go back to AZ this coming April to be present for it. I’m not sure if I will be able to though. I have kids and responsibilities so I decided to write this in case I don’t. Just to try out painting a picture with my thoughts and words about a band I love with songs I know every single word to and will never forget. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that my Spotify playlist today kept playing format songs while on shuffle.

            When my kids are teens I doubt they’ll like my music that I show them.  They don’t like it now when I play it casually some days. Times are different. Music is different. But I am so glad I lived where I did and at the time I did. A time when those simple days called for simple and wonderful alternative music. 

I’ll always clap at that part in the first single after he says

“Cause a scene..” and again after he sings “Clap our hands and stomp our feet..” 

When I hear someone say Tempe I’ll think of “A save situation.” When he sings “I need to get back to Tempe.” When I hear the word calm I’ll think of “Be calm” from FUN. When I hear Nate’s solo stuff like “I am nothing without love.” I will think of The Format. And when I hear anything about Lena Dunham my mind will undoubtedly go off road to a trail about her and Jack Antonoff and how he was in FUN and Nate from Fun then I will circle back to: you guessed it, The Format. I will wonder what Sam is up to and think about the song “A mess to be made” or “Career day.”  

Thank you Nate Ruess and Sam Means! Maybe I will see you in Phoenix in April. But if not I’ll watch you live on Amazon Prime and I’ll keep playing your songs on Spotify, even if my young kids don’t like it. I’ll love your sound forever.

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I went to Just like Heaven fest hosted by Golden Voice. Artists such a Modest Mouse, Bloc Party, and Interpol were there. A great nostalgia trip back to early 2000’s when indie was in it’s prime. There’s a lot I can say, I’d like to start off by saying I’m not in the crowd of the majority of people who went. It felt like a very washed out Coachella, Each artist brought there all, it was truly a life changing experience to see my favorite bands that I used to listen to in my moms car heading to school. Life has changed and so has the meaning of a festival in a whole apparently. I feel as music doesn’t connect with people. I saw people watching through the lens of there phones and just simply talking through performances. It was really embarrassing that the crowd turn out was that way for such amazing artists. Interpol never ever disappoints though they definitely saved that show. Our saviors and one of the best bands in the world, with top songs like PDA that inspired a whole ass generation of new music. Each album is just a hit after hit. I felt in my soul if only the band could see the people in the crowd who were fulling feeling their meaningful melodic tones. Just unexplainably beautiful. I wanted to give that to these bands that deserve it. The feelings of being invested in their music. The festival as a whole wasn’t life changing it was more of a popularity contest between looks, that I really wasn’t used to not being from a area like Pasadena that’s basically white. Which made me feel really out of place. Also, don’t fucken come for me about that I look white, but I’m really not and I don’t come from that area it was just a weird experience with stuck up people. The music and the energy put on by the performers was the highlight, The hives for example! Probably the best live performances I’ve ever seen! Saddened by the turn out though I don’t think I will get to experience the energy that once was with music.It makes me upset, but to know these amazing artists are still going strong and had such a great turn out is what made it worth the bullshit. Also free tickets! that I won soo. Yea.

I was tagged by: @henantier ty for tagging me!! i like doing these

Relationship Status: single

Favorite Colour: spring green. thecolor the leaves are at the peak of spring when the sun shines through them

Lipstick or Chapstick: chapstick

Last song I listened to:  no scrubs by unlike pluto

Last Movie I 👀: star wars the force awakens (again)

Top 3 📺 Shows: i dont watch a lot of tv ;; i like parks and rec and a lot of food network shows tho. i uhhhh also binge-watched the first three seasons of spongebob on amazon prime, if that counts

Top 3 Characters:  going to narrow it down to TES because otherwise i either can’t remember anything or there’s too many to rank lol.

1.) prince naemon

2.) quen

and 3.) a tie between king dynar and vanus galerion (behind is a bunch of other characters). that’s just eso, too. (that says a lot abt zenimax’s writing vs bethesda’s usual )

skyrim’s the only other one i’ve played extensively so far and in that it’s (in no particular order) serana, erandur, and ondolemar

Top 3 Bands: woodkid, queen, and modest mouse. woodkid is number 1 but the others aren’t ordered

📚 I’m Reading: rereading fortune’s fool: the biography of john wilkes booth and finishing up american brutus: john wilkes booth and the lincoln conspiracies. i havent been reading much lately tho :’(

Tagging (3): i  dont like tagging ppl because of social anxiety so if anyone wants to do this go on ahead!!!

All the primes for the music ask!

Okay, here goes:

2. A song you like with a number in the title: 36 Degrees – Placebo

3. A song that reminds you of summertime: Almost anything by Blink-182 or The Used reminds me of high school summer breaks, but All That I’ve Got by The Used is always an especially strong jolt of nostalgia.

5. A song that needs to be played loud: Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria because it’s absolutely glorious when that heavy guitar hits at the beginning and that intro is almost entirely responsible for getting middle school me into heavy music.

7. A song to drive to: Dramamine by Modest Mouse is a perfect driving jam, even though I feel like it’s cheating to answer this with a song from an album called This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About.

11. A song that you never get tired of: I’m Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance

13. One of your favorite 80s songs: Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears

17: A song that [you] would sing a duet with on karaoke: I want to say Under Pressure but there might have to be alcohol involved.

19: A song that makes you think about life: This could mean almost anything but lately Rejoice by Julien Baker, which hits very close to home for me even though it’s got some strong religious themes and I’m not especially religious.

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to: Just Like Heaven by The Cure because it’s basically a perfect love song and just really beautifully constructed.

29: A song that you remember from your childhood: Nights In White Satin by The Moody Blues; my mom’s favorite band was The Moody Blues for a long time when I was a kid so now I have this weird affection for them.  I remember seeing the Tim Burton Dark Shadows movie a couple years ago which was otherwise pretty unremarkable but Nights In White Satin played over the opening credits and it was kind of a nostalgia trip for me.

Thanks as always, you’re the best!

ABC Game

I was tagged by @ravenscat-tumbler

R U L E S: Copy this post into a new text post, remove my answers and put in yours, and when you are done tag up to 10 people and also tag the person who tagged you… and most importantly, have fun!  (Author’s note: you are under no obligation to do any of the above. I’ll still care for you.)

a - age: almost a number divisible only by two primes

b - biggest fear: succumbing to my biggest fear

c - current time: 10:07pm

d - drink you last had: Water from a flashing plastic chalice

e - every day starts with: Waking up an hour before my alarm clock in a panic that I forgot something important. 

f - favorite song: 3rd Planet by Modest Mouse

g - ghosts, are they real?: I’m not sure. I hope not. It would suck to be a ghost.

h - hometown: Seattle, WA.

i - in love with: Castiel, Angel of My Panties

j - jealous of: I try not to be jealous. We all need eachother right now.

k - killed someone: I’ve killed the mood before, does that count?

l - last time you cried: Yesterday.

m - middle name: I wish my middle name was Inge.

n - number of siblings: Two

o - one wish: (two rolled into one) the end of our new alt-right fascist puppet state and the punching of Nazis

p - person you last called/texted: @malicezero

q - questions you’re always asked: Check my math?

r - reasons to smile: horchata ice cream, destiel, enthusiastic youth

s - song last sang: Creep by Radiohead (I’m a fucking cliche)

t - time you woke up: 6am

u - underwear color: red plaid

v - vacation destination: Puerto Vallarta

w - worst habit(s): avoidance

x - x-rays you’ve had: head

y - your favorite food: sushi

z - zodiac Sign: I used to be the bucket guy, now I’m the sea goat.

I’m tagging @malicezero @darquethoughts @winchester-reload @compulsive-baker

Today Ross and Michelle discuss Elephant. No, not the Gus Van Sant film, the Alan Clarke one from 1989. A minimalist made-for-television film about The Troubles, it's certainly one of the more challenging pieces of work to be broadcast during prime time on a major TV station. There's also an extended discussion about the different reasons people watch movies, and what cinephiles can learn from the filmgoing hoi polloi.

Recommended in this Episode: How Fiction Works by James Wood, Flowers of Romance by Public Image Ltd

Intro song is "Truckers Atlas" by Modest Mouse

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

Thanks again for sending me these, I had a lot of fun thinking through them

29: song from childhood

Dad music. These guys, the Eagles, CCR, Grateful Dead...all on heavy rotation in my house growing up.

On the soundtrack of two prime childhood movies (Matilda & The Parent Trap). Always makes me smile.

30: a song that reminds you of yourself

This is just an unfair question. I could give you a hundred different answers and they’d all be true and also not enough. I really went wild so I’m putting it under a cut.

Like any self respecting introvert Radiohead is always playing somewhere in the back of my mind. This one is quite possibly my favorite which is a tough position to call.

I loved playing this song on the piano. Probably one of the only ones I still remember how to play parts of tho I’m sure it’d be very rusty. It’s been too long since I lived with a piano and I miss it.

I love to sing along and her voice really works for me. And the sentiment. Always trying to be kinder.

Forgive me for double dipping these guys but this is a short one and really sums it all up. If I had my way I’d always be outside, laying in the grass, watching the sky change colors.

26 songs randomly selected from my library in order #32

“A Fairy Battle”, from AlterniaBound by Homestuck

“Brennenburg Theme”, from Amnesia: The Dark Descent OST by Mikko Tarmia

“Chapter Six”, from Section.80 by Kendrick Lamar

“Dead Dogs Two”, from Ten by cLOUDDEAD

“Edging Close to Town”, from Dogs Can’t Look Up by glue70

“family tree”, from Hymns For Him by treatsforbeasts

“Gg5″, from Glossemenomicon by Impossible Nothing

“Hit It”, from Poop Onion Vol. 2: Danceday by The EP Projecto

“ILY2″, from Number 1 Angel by Charli XCX

“Junky”, from Saturation II by Brockhampton

“Kong”, from Black Sands by Bonobo

“LA2″, from Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. by Moby

“Mother’s Milk”, from The Great Annihilator by Swans

“Not a Good Time”, from Dogs Can’t Look Up by glue70

“One for the Head Skit”, from Arular by M.I.A.

“Piece of Dirt”, from Lincoln by They Might Be Giants

“'06: "Quotes"“, from 50 Song Memoir by The Magnetic Fields

“Restless Sea, Clouded Sky”, from Leviathan by DM Dokuro

“Side Two-B”, from Third Side Of Tape by Lil Ugly Mane

“The Soul Will Remain”, from Light Floor by glue70

“Under Neon Lights”, from Born in the Echoes by The Chemical Brothers

“Vanish NGC”, from Hello Skypedals EP1 by Vektordrum

“What People Are Made Of”, from The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse

“XR2″, from Kala by M.I.A.

“You Lost Me”, from Reign of Terror by Sleigh Bells

“Zoal, Face Dancer”, from Geidi Primes by Grimes