Yeah, I'd be really sad if I were a fan hoping to go to this show. I wonder if it's a PR cover for "the Astroworld disaster has compelled us to review and adjust the safety measures at this show"?
A very, very trashy, very, very self-indulgent urban fantasy romance novel that’s really just 800,000 words of Supernatural fanfiction with the serial numbers shaved off. We’re hoping to self-publish next year.
It’s more for us than anyone else, but I’ll let you know, haha.
Something about having to focus on driving but still having enough brainspace to focus on each note, about associating songs with certain landscapes or times of day, is impossible to replicate in the home!
Oh, also y'all, I got a dance teaching job, so if anyone has suggestions for undiscovered gems that work really well in a cardio dance format, please let me know. My playlist is largely Charli XCX and the Weeknd, big pop music, but I also have things like FKA Twigs and Foxing, so if you can think of something that just makes you want to dance shoot it my way.
The last two years have really made me realize what an important part of my music-listening experience my commute is. I've listened to infinitely fewer albums and basically none of them have made the kind of jawdropping impact of a Listmas entry, and I don't think it's because they're not good. I think it's because I don't have 3-4 hours (haha, Bay Area traffic...) to just focus on music.
I also made a lot more playlists this year and listened to those, particularly ones for the novel I wrote with a friend and one for Halloween that topped out at 700 songs. But I'm really hoping that our office reopens soon so I can get back into the groove of fixating on music for several hours each day.
I've always wished "Darlin' (Christmas is Coming)" by Over the Rhine were a Christmas standard. It's beautiful and melancholy and hopeful all at once, and gets heavy rotation for me every winter, either while I bop around alone at home making buckeyes for Christmas parties or while I wail it in the car driving 20 mph to avoid sliding out.
Thanks, man. I’m feeling pretty good now but it was definitely terrifying and mortifying at the time and I’m still recovering. Sending you good thoughts.
It's stunningly beautiful. My only complaint is that each individual song is so good that I keep getting stuck playing repeat ten, twenty times in a row and have yet to conceptualize the album as a full piece instead of a bunch of amazing songs. That's my own listening problem, though.
Those puppies sound adorable. Sorry about your bad work experience, and glad you're doing a little better now too. < 3
I also hope Ocean to Ocean is a good Tori album. I haven't loved any of her records since Scarlet's Walk, so I should go back to Native Invader and give it some more love.
Thanks, homie! I've been eagerly awaiting the new Grouper release, plus familiarizing myself with Penelope Trappes, so I am benefiting from lots of beautiful ambient whale dustbunny sounds.
Wow, damn. I honestly never expect cops to be held accountable. Good on you for testifying, I hope it goes smoothly and the parents are able to find some peace. As for the cop digging his own grave with his increasingly detailed testimony...keep digging, buddy.
I finally got an official response to the complaint I filed about those teenagers at the BLM protest being pepper-sprayed and flashbanged: "there is no evidence this conduct occurred." This in spite of my video footage of teenagers running from tear gas while people screamed "stop spraying, those are children!". The kicker is that the letter I got said I could appeal within sixty days of the decision, but the letter hadn't been put in the mail until exactly 61 days after the decision had been formalized and printed. Incredible.
I think I'm on a pretty good cocktail now, thankfully. I have a great mental health team. I tend to get delusions and paranoia when I'm manic and hallucinations when I'm depressed (and adding alcohol doesn't help). Every once in a while I start to beat myself up because it's "just" bipolar disorder, but then I have to remember that it kills a lot of people every year, including those who seem to be doing well on the outside, and so I need to take it seriously.
Thanks! Bro-fisting you through the internet in solidarity. Having a social support network really makes all the difference - I was able to stay with family while I detoxed, work part-time while I was in intensive therapy, and even able to get a ride home from the hospital at 4am. I wouldn't be doing as well as I am now without that support (73 days clean!). I'm glad to hear music has been so powerful for you; it's saved me a few times too. :)
Addiction + bipolar with hallucinations = one hell of a bullshit cocktail, it turns out.
Thankfully, I have an amazing workplace (and am in a union), so I was able to take medical leave and come back to my position. Honestly, after getting beat up by the cops for being drunk enough to sleep on the ground (they left me with broken glasses and bruises all over before they transferred me to the hospital), I can relate to a lot of my clients more - it's sadly a common experience for mental health and addiction issues to be treated by the police not as health emergencies, but as threats to the public. I'm trying to think of it as a life experience that lets me understand the experiences of my clients.
Went and saw Ruston Kelly for my first pandemic-era concert on Monday at the Fillmore. Absolutely fantastic. Listening to so many people shout-sing what are essentially country mental health anthems was super moving, and as someone who's seen him twice before, he just gets better and better as a performer.
I've been missing for most of the last few months because I relapsed on alcohol, got arrested, got put in a psychiatric hospital, and have been coming out and slowly recovering with the support of family, friends, coworkers and doctors. I haven't been listening to a ton of music and have mostly spent my free time curled up in bed watching trashy teen TV. Seeing live music again has felt like coming out of my shell.
From the Choirgirl Hotel, To Venus and Back and Scarlet's Walk are all excellent albums; the first two expand her sound into a bit more of a rock/electronic direction, and the latter is a perfect slice of adult contemporary similar to, say, Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour. From that point on, the only album I'd recommend is Night of Hunters, which is more classical-influenced and has some really lovely instrumentals.
Serj Tankian may be the only person who can sing about topics like genocide with the force, power and anguish that they deserve. He sounds like a Greek god about to enact punishment on mortals. He's truly one of a kind as a vocalist and the entire band is just action-packed and wild. Great album.
Not from what I've been reading - the studies I looked at said the cloth masks only block like 50% of aerosol droplets.
I want to sing along at concerts too, I'm just wondering if this is the future we're looking forward to at live music.
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