the beat

* the beat goes on.

that title & song from days of yore still applies

musician or not, there's a pulse beneath the core of our presence that governs the rhythms of our reasons, rites & rituals,

reminders of our daily essence.

yet, high-handed decisions made without our input

wreck the rhythms of a multitude: groups, ethnicities, entire races & countries;

a drumbeat anchoring a death dance if not mass deprivation & disenfranchisement.

beaten, not broken we go on, beneath those thumbs fighting over entitlements i call crumbs

for a place to lay a head, rest some feet under sheltered shade on the sunny side of the street

…and the beat goes on. * 1/24 - lebuc - the beat

Ranking Roger

February 22, 1963 – March 26, 2019

Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger (The Beat, General Pubic)

Those T-Shirts

save it for later

The Beat

From a 2023 interview with Dave Wakeling of the Beat (link) - I really like how he describes Terry Hall's stage presence here

assortment

“Louis as a guy, he’s a great guy, he’s a big fan of the music that we play, and yeah man, he plays it himself, I think it’s one of those things, he plays indie music. I don’t think people really realize that.“

-Jack Cochrane on Louis and his music. (20 August 2022)

via The Beat

Björk - big time sensuality - Live 1993 HD

The Beat.

omg yes definitely seeing Carmy on the aro/ace spectrum might have been my projecting a little bit like I always saw their dynamic as him thinking he should be all in and interested coz omg the prettiest girl at school my old crush is into me even though they aren’t in a space similar enough for a successful relationship

no this is so real aroace carmy make so much fucking sense and the first time i watched season 2 i was so distraught about him having a love interest but tbh so much about their relationship and about carmy as a character is so much more elevated and meaningful if you view him as aroace. like. him being so fucking weird about calling claire his girlfriend. him having a panic attack outside the restaurant the morning after he and claire finally have sex. that jeremy allen white interview where he says “Carmy's, like, the least sexual person. In playing him, I was aware that he had no room for love” and then clarifies that “Carmy does not fuck." when he’s in the walk-in and says that “no amount of good is worth how terrible this feels.” the intrinsic differentness about carmy that becomes so so clear in the fishes episode and lends itself so beautifully to a queer interpretation. do you see the vision. 

Mad Donna and Ranking Roger (The Beat)

The (English) Beat, Boston, 1982

stuff from a while ago

Flexipop #4 (1981)

Dave Wakeling (The Beat)