what kind of music you like listening to? could be directed either to you or the doc (or both!!)
my favorite genre of music is.. whatever i like listening to. i just like music a lot!!
if youre wanting a more specific answer than that, then i really like classical, swing and big band, and mid-century modern lounge and jazz!! bossa nova also maybe. i also like listening film scores and the occasional opera.
we also somehow happen to be in the year 2024 at the moment so maybe youre wondering about some newer genres? well all of the above is still very true! but i also like electroswing, most kinds of rock, early 2000s rave and edm.. most kinds of edm or electronic actually, and this tends to cover a wide variety of genres but i also like listening to video game soundtracks.
Can we please Just all simultaneously agree that Stalker's Tango Is Basically Nick's theme & voiceclaim & that the part near the end where the voice goes up & down Is Just Amazing
SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “It’s In Your Hands + Scenes from Entre’Acte + Variations on Satie” (main cut)— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyjtzLwv6uU —Our hands have power. We can perform great feats like build a house, write a symphony, whack a ball into the outfield, or find a cure for a disease. It's in my hands but God directs me. This is also a song about the love, resources, and skills that God empowers me with. I do not have to be afraid to take risks with these skills and abilities, and I am thankful that God gave them to me in the first place—that is my edge. Musically this song is a rock-tango adaptation of Erik Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1.” I mingled Satie’s melodicism with influences from glam rock, Nuevo Tango, and Astor Piazzolla. Felipe Torres called the song “elegant” and told me to make it the last track on my album I LIKE THE STREET.
"All this happened to me because of music."--Erik Satie…The playing instructions for Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1” are "open your head" and "perform with astonishment."
In The Tango Singer by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Anne McLean, Bruno is an American grad student who wants to track down a famous tango singer who performs in seemingly spontaneous performances around the city but who has never been recorded.
This was an easy, fast read about the past, about where it is, where to find it and how it changes—about the labyrinths of cities and of memory, about ephemerality and how history slips through our hands. It's also a mini love letter to Borges, and I recommend reading "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges before digging in. Bonus points for having a quietly queer protagonist. A perfect read for the flight into Buenos Aires!
Content warnings for torture, fatphobia, violence, sexual assault.
El adiós, which translates to English as “the farewell”, is one of the oldest songs on my album. It was composed in 1937 by Maruja Pacheco Huergo, with lyrics by Virgilio San Clemente. Maruja Pacheco Huergo was a trained pianist but also an actress and a singer. As a singer she often performed on the radio and was nominated as “Miss Radio” in 1938
But she wasn’t involved in tango for long, and in the 1950s she released two albums of songs for children, written and composed by her.
Even more interestingly, she composed 12 songs based on the old testament.
As an actress, she appeared on several films in Argentina, but in minor roles.
Her husband Manuel Ferradás Campos was a writer who wrote the lyrics to another beautiful tango called Será una noche.
Back to Maruja Pacheco Huergo, the first person to record her tango El Adiós was Ignacio Corsini in 1938. Apparently she got the idea of having her sing it before there were even lyrics to the song. And Corsini loved it, so lyrics were commissioned for it.
So that’s the story of Maruja Pacheco Huergo, one of the relatively few women composers in the early days of tango, and more specifically the composer of the beautiful tango “El adiós”, which I decided to include on my album as well.
SONG OF THE WEEK: “It’s in Your Hands”—https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/its-in-your-hands-variations-on-satie …Our hands can perform great feats: we can build a house, write a symphony, whack a ball into the outfield, or find a cure for a disease. It's in our hands. This is also about the love, resources, and skills that God empowers us with. In other words, I am not afraid to take risks with these skills and abilities, and I am thankful that God gave them to me in the first place—that is my edge. Musically it’s a rock-tango adaptation of Erik Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1.” My goal was to mingle Satie’s melodicism with influences from glam rock, Nuevo Tango, and Astor Piazzolla. Felipe Torres called the song “elegant” and told me to make it the last track on my album I LIKE THE STREET.
"All this happened to me because of music."--Erik Satie…The playing instructions for Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1” are "open your head" and "perform with astonishment." For more of the back story go to…
Hi everyone! I haven't done one of these before, but I thought I should! I love these fics, and find myself revisiting them often because I adore them.
I hope you enjoy making your way through this list 🖤. If you see yourself on this list, know I love you and your writing very, very much. If you don't see yourself on it, rest assured I will be making another list soon 😘
One-Shots:
Roronoa Zoro
Black Tea, With Honey by @bby-deerling. Themes: mutual pining, a final push to engage, first kisses, soft Zoro
Did I Miss It? by @writingmysanity. Themes: birthday, drinking, fluffy, soft Zoro
Not A Chance by @willowbelle. Themes: NSFW, jealousy, flirting, possessiveness.
Guilded by @eelnoise. Themes: NSFW, drinking, smug!Zoro
Hey there! Can I get some headcanons for Alastor and Rosie with a female Best friend/ s/o respectively (cause y'know, Al's an 'Ace in the hole' lol) who's a singer and does covers of modern music in old-timey styles like postmodern jukebox?
Rosie and Alastor frequent different speakeasies and clubs often together.
Soon after Alastor’s return they restarted the tradition and that’s where they met you.
You were performing a cover of a song neither had ever heard before.
You were good. You were amazing. Fantastically.
Rosie was immediately smitten.
You walked down off the stage, placing a delicate hand in a demon’s outstretched one to help you down the stairs.
You practically floated around the floor and even convinced several people to dance with you.
“They’re rather good.” “Yes, indeed.”
When you approached their tables, dragged your hand along the back of both their seats and placed an outstretched hand between the two of them.
Alastor declined it, noticing Rosie’s specific brand of infatuation. In fact, the bastard baited you both and reached for your hand only to grab Rosie’s and place it there.
He can be a wing man if he wants to be.
The three of you met after that initial performance and were often found together.
Often Alastor would be on the end of Rosie’s thoughtless rambles about you as she flitted around. She called your voice angelic a lot.
Rosie would attend every single one of your performances. Alastor would attend them when he could or particularly wanted to. He wouldn’t rearrange his plans to see them unlike Rosie.
 When the Hotel was rebuilt and the welcoming party was being planned, Alastor immediately suggested you be a performer for the night.
Alastor may or may not have sent his shadows to place a note and a specific outfit he’d noticed Rosie really liked on your bed the day of.
One would imagine Rosie would have dressed for the occasion as well. I’m imagining this fanart because I’m in love with them both.
Alastor, of course, welcomed you with a specific brand of hostility.
He made sure you were comfortable, had everything you needed, any instrument you required would appear with a shadow playing it, and he did make sure to compliment you.
You didn’t see Rosie until you were onstage about to preform on stage.
She was sitting beside Alastor, so beautiful.
You felt almost scandalized seeing her in something that revealed her arms, much less her back and legs.
You immediately went flushed and walked off stage, put a hand in Husk’s shoulder where he was sitting at the bar nearby and took his drink from him (not registering that it was not one he was drinking but instead using to mix a drink for Angel so. . . good luck) and basically started chugging.
You patted his shoulder, gave him his bottle back (he just stared at it and looked at Angel who burst out laughing), then went back to the stage.
You started singing. Song after song, all on stage which was odd for you.
Then you caught Rosie’s eye at the end of a song and Alastor’s shadows started playing a different rhythm.
Feeling the effects of Husks’s drink take hold, you got off the stage.
You went to Rosie and held out your hand specifically to her. Still, Alastor pulled the same move of puppeting her hand, just for old time’s sake.
You moved so you were behind her and pulled her close to you, feeling her warmth and skin against yours and maybe you were in Hell but it was heaven.
You led her in a tango and then she led you and then you were— you both led each other.
At one point, body moving before you mind could process, you kissed her exposed shoulder.
She flushed a bright red.
Charlie went to Alastor and asked if you two were dating. Surprised to hear no.
Everyone watched on anyway because not often did people see Rosie dance and with you two so in sync it was mesmerizing.
You ended the dance with spinning which led to a dip.
Rosie actually, spurred on by the feeling of your hands on her back and the adrenaline of a dance, hooked her leg over yours and used her arm around your shoulders to pull you into a kiss.
Angel absolutely whistled.
You both pulled away flustered.
Maybe you ran off, maybe you didn’t.
Either way, Rosie turned to Alastor who gave her a thumbs up as she sat down. A smile on her lips as her hand traveled to it.
To Alastor, though, that wasn’t the most shocking part of the night.
For him, it was when he heard Charlie saying she was going see if she could commission you to do cover some of her favorite songs and compile them into a playlist.
And upon questioning her, he was informed you covered modern songs.