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If you’re looking for a CHEAP concert to go to in Los Angeles please come out and see my band No Surprises on June 23 in DTLA!

Our new single just came out and this will be our EP Release show! Were an indie emo alt rock band heavily influenced by My Chemical Romance, Bloc Party, Interpol, Citizen, Title Fight, etc… all the good ones.

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How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Took Over the Entire World

By Chris Willman

By Alissa Gao for Variety

On the morning that Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” is about to begin a three-night stand in Dublin, the older gentleman taking charge of my passport at airport customs has clearly had his fill of Swifties, probably processing them by the hundreds already today. When I reveal myself to be one too — despite being arguably the wrong gender, inarguably old and lacking a telltale “Lover” mascara star over my right eye — his disdain is palpable. Suddenly, I’m getting way more screening questions than anyone not on a watch list should. “What do you like about her?” he sneers, peering up over specs.

This is probably the wrong time for me to point out Swift’s Irish heritage, or to assert that she is this generation’s James Joyce. (The original king of the Easter eggs, right?) I wouldn’t really go that far — I’m only on record as doing my best to certify her as this century’s Beatles. Trying to figure out how to answer him, the past 18 years of extolling Swift in print flash before my eyes. I end up murmuring the bare minimum: “Um, her songwriting.” This seems to disturb him further. He snaps back: “Aren’t they all the same song” — a slight pause, and I know what’s coming next — “about her breakups?” Then, abruptly, he stamps me through, sparing me a detour to Interpol for more grilling.

In the cab into town, the driver is blasting a local talk-radio personality sharing his dismay about the fans of an awful superstar taking over his country. The host reads an email sent in from a hater who says, “A year ago, when tickets went on sale, my partner and I made a reservation to take our kids out of the country this Friday morning. … Thank you for creating a safe space with your show.” I start to wonder if Swift might have met her match at the Cliffs of Moher.

But from my drop-off forward, the next three days are like living in a Swift-topia. The mile and a half to Aviva Stadium each night is like Disneyland when it shuts its doors early for an affinity group. Whether stopping in the pubs or walking through the charming neighborhood of Victorian brick homes adjoining the fancy new stadium, there’s that warm feeling of people who are united by one quality: They are all super in touch with their feelings — or else they wouldn’t be Swift fans. And they all are happy to stop on the street or over pints to talk about poetical expression. (Well, except for the occasional taciturn, invariably straight young male who has signified his supportive-plus-one status by wearing a jersey bearing the name of Swift’s Super Bowl beau, Travis Kelce.)

So it is that I end up chatting with a middle-aged gay man in a sequin-covered shirt whose female companion whispers to me, while he steps away to trade friendship bracelets with a 10-year-old girl and her mum, that Swift’s music just helped him through a difficult breakup. The girl then runs off to trade her homemade bracelets with a pair of high-helmeted Dublin policemen loaded up to their own elbows with friendship swag — unexpected accessories for long arms of the law.

All the stories about American Swifties swarming overseas to catch “The Eras Tour” turn out to be true: You couldn’t swing a neon golf club around here without hitting a Yank. Approximately one out of every five fans I approach is visiting from the States — and the jubilation they’re feeling about the night’s impending concert is compounded by the fact that nearly all of them financed a European vacation and a concert ticket for roughly the same amount they would have paid on a secondary ticketing site for a typical four-figure ticket to one of last year’s predatorily repriced U.S. shows.

Remember the venerable stereotype of the Ugly Americans, brusquely trampling over refined Europeans in their travels? Thanks to Taylor Swift, who has a gift for laying out global welcome mats, this is the summer of the Spangly American.

At the stadium on night one, just down the row from me are a group of millennials from New Jersey, several in glam unitards inspired by the “Lover” or “1989” portions of the career-spanning show and looking like they were costumed by Swift’s own designer, with fake jewel-encrusted microphones to match. I ask how many hours went into perfecting these nearly pro-grade outfits.

“About 80 hours for mine,” says Megan McLaughlin. “Hers probably longer,” she adds, nodding toward one of her sisters, Margo Steinberg. “She knows all the glues and the best gems.” Indeed, confirms Steinberg, “I was working on mine since January. And, yes, I did quit my job to finish it!” She adds, when I ask if she cares to share any secrets to a particularly good look, “You have to use the B-7000 glue.” (A third sister, Amelia McLaughlin, admits she resorted to buying her spangly dress off Etsy — “I was doing a PhD, but I had to match these girls’ enthusiasm” — while a fourth, Carolyn McLaughlin, skipped the glitter and went for a red dress that matches Swift’s from the “I Bet You Think About Me” video.)

Certainly, there is an element of cosplay to many of the fans’ outfits. Some have seen footage of the new segment Swift added to the tour beginning in April 2024 — devoted to her most recent album, the 31-song “Tortured Poets Department” — and have managed to manufacture gowns that look like they’re made of paper and feature lyric excerpts printed on them in script, à la Swift’s custom-made Vivienne Westwood dress. I meet a group of American women who became friends as literature majors in college who have “Tortured Poets”-themed outfits, one duplicating the Westwood dress and the other with handmade printouts of the latest album’s lyrics pinned all over her black dress, as if she were literally pulling pages out of Swift’s playbook.

It’s the devotion to lyrics, even more than glitter, that is most impressive about the bespoke outfits fans have concocted for the occasion. There are scores and scores of Swifties wearing homemade T-shirts — sometimes singular, sometimes matching with a friend, like walking Burma-Shave signs. Some of the messages are obvious, like the dozens of laddies wearing “It’s me, hi, I’m the husband/boyfriend/father, it’s me” shirts. (Bet that seemed really original at one time.) But a lot of them refer to more obscure songs or stanzas, as if every nearby street or stadium loge section is full of human Easter eggs, begging to be unpacked. It’s hard to think of any other superstar in the history of stadium tours who could have inspired as much fan-crafted clothing rooted in the power of words.

Combos of middle-aged mothers and their teen or 20-something daughters abound; some of them have seized on Swift’s mentions of her own mother, Andrea, to come up with their T-shirt ideas. On Lansdowne Road, I talk to a mum whose red-on-black shirt says, “Had to listen to all this drama,” accompanied by a daughter bearing the legend, “And here’s to my mama.” (This is a reference to Swift’s song “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”)

Later, in a stadium Guinness line, I chat up a pair of thirsty locals, the daughter’s shirt reading “I call my mom, she said …,” with the mom’s shirt completing the thought: “It was for the best.” (Damn it, I had to Google to recall that’s from a “1989” Vault track that came out last year.) I ask the daughter if she had to explain to her mom what she was wearing. “She’s 52,” she replies. “I don’t think she knows.”

Age is really no guarantor of not getting it — the popular #SwiftieOver50 hashtag on X proves that. Although outnumbered, plenty of older people are unaccompanied by a minor, or by anyone who has been a minor in the past 20 years. I approach a middle-aged couple, Jean Sebastian Conley and Natasha Gagne, again bidden by their matching shirts — “Who’s Taylor Swift?” and “Who’s Travis Kelce?” They turn out to be French Canadians who found their 206-euro SRO tickets to be a steal compared with the extravagant resale prices they briefly considered back home after being shut out of the initial on-sale. I ask what attracted them to Swift since, unlike so many others here, they didn’t grow up with her.

“I really fell in love with her with the ‘Folklore’ album,” Conley says, referring to her low-key Grammy-winning album recorded during the early months of the pandemic. “I think different audiences and older audiences found her through that and ‘Evermore’ because they were more singer-songwriter, a little bit rougher indie music, and that’s what we like most. So that’s how I got hooked.” For her part, Gagne says, “I like everything she represents. And when she redid all her masters, that’s where I thought she was a lady boss.”

It’s a reminder that, for however many mini-narratives Swift packs into the three hours and 20 minutes of an “Eras” show, there are really four or five years of backstory that feed into the audience’s shared awareness. When she sings the ominous ballad “My Tears Ricochet,” accompanied by a coven of stone-faced dancers, at least some fans will understand it as a distant reflection of her very public feelings about the men she considers her business bêtes noires, Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta, who bought and sold (respectively) the rights to her first six albums, spawning much vitriol as well as four “Taylor’s Version” rerecorded albums to date.

When the dancers put their grins back on, Swift plays an ebullient excerpt of a very recent “Poets” bonus track, “So High School,” which every person in the crowd will know is inspired by Kelce. There are some breakup songs of recent vintage too — yes, Mr. Customs Man! — like “The Smallest Man in the World,” which may or may not have cost Matty Healy, the 1975 frontman and former Swift paramour, a night of sleep.

The whole tour is themed around not just the newer records but the rerecordings that have made every older album in her catalog feel improbably fresh. It was, quite possibly, the single most baller move in the history of the record industry … and led to the career-retrospective concept for what is already unquestionably the biggest tour in the history of popular music.

Any discussion of the charms of fandom isn’t meant to forestall discussion of “The Eras Tour” as big business. The numbers are fuzzy because Swift’s camp does not release grosses from her shows, unlike nearly every other artist at the stadium or arena level. Even when the tour wraps after 20 months on Dec. 8 in Vancouver, it seems likely those numbers will continue to be guarded with a zeal on par with the government of North Korea’s. Many industry experts believe the gross will approach or even surpass $2 billion.

What is known for certain — even without a confirmation from Swift World — is that she broke the all-time tour-gross figure when she hit the $1 billion mark, whenever exactly that might have been. The two trade publications that specialize in the touring industry have slightly differing estimates: Billboard calculated a cumulative gross of approximately $900 million when she took a break at the end of 2023, figuring that she would crack $1 billion shortly into the tour’s resumption in April, while Pollstar estimated that she had passed $1 billion by the conclusion of last year. Any way you guesstimate it, Swift took less than a year to break the previous record of $939.1 million, which Elton John grossed with his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour across nearly three years of shows.

One source close to the production said early in the “Eras Tour” era that her average gross each night is $14 million. Others believe that is a highly conservative estimate, with a possible total that on at least some nights edges closer to $17 million. One remarkable aspect is that this does not include the revenue from any inflated resale tickets — which, as anyone who has tried to get tickets through Vivid Seats or StubHub knows, mostly have gone for several times their face value. It was little publicized, but Swift had “dynamic pricing” turned off for her ticket sales, possibly to avoid the controversies Bruce Springsteen encountered when the face value on some of his tickets leaped to the four-figure range upon their first sale. Swift left money on the table by not participating in the scalping of her own tickets, which had an average price of around $230 and topped out at $499, excepting VIP packages, which zenithed at $899 — all well short of what some other superstars ask nowadays. Of course, neither Argentina nor anyone at Wembley Stadium ahead of Swift’s opening night performance in June will be crying for her when she’s in reach of $2 billion without the resale inflation … not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars in merch.

(This is extraordinary also because Swift hasn’t done any press to promote the tour, except for when she was selected as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in December. But she doesn’t need to — the tour is constantly being celebrated on social media with every outfit change. And it’s also become so huge, it’s featured more A-list sightings than the Oscars, from Julia Roberts to Tom Cruise to Stevie Nicks, who had the surprise song “You’re on Your Own, Kid” dedicated to her in Dublin.)

Benson Boone, whose “Beautiful Things” is the most-streamed song of 2024 in the U.S. and the world, says he felt dwarfed when performing as the opening act at one of Swift’s seven shows at London’s Wembley Stadium. He has forever committed to memory the exact attendance figure he was given for the night: “89,497,” he says. “Just her stage alone is bigger than anything I’ve ever seen — 300 feet of it!” he says. “I took in every moment. It was cool for me to experience another artist’s world and learn from it. I want to work that hard and be the captain of my ship.”

Although it’s maddening to a media that likes official box office reports and can’t get them, it’s easy to see the wisdom in not flaunting those figures if you’re a superstar artist who counts on being seen as relatable. Swift certainly is proud of breaking records — she posted a tweet when “The Tortured Poets Department” spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 on the album chart, one of only three albums in history to do so. But she’d rather count fan impressions than dollars. By the same token, she doesn’t publicize or confirm acts of generosity that leak out, like the sizable food-bank donations she makes in every city she tours, or the $100,000 bonuses that the tour’s 50 truck drivers reportedly got for Christmas.

An addendum to all this is how the “Eras Tour” film — released last fall, less than halfway through the actual tour — grossed just over $180 million domestically and $261 million globally, beating the records set by Justin Bieber’s concert film in the U.S. and Michael Jackson’s globally. Massive big-screen spoilers only heightened, rather than diminished, resale demand for the shows yet to come on the 152-date tour and helped precipitate the movement among Americans to head overseas, to make up for the supply found sorely lacking at home.

“She is the torchbearer for the live industry,” says Andy Gensler, editor of Pollstar. “It’s nothing we’ve ever seen before, and it’ll be a long time before we see it again. Her timing was exquisite: The pandemic created this yearning and hunger for live entertainment like nothing else in our history, so she couldn’t have picked a better time to go out.” Pollstar called last year a “historic golden age” for touring, as the top 100 global tours collectively surpassed $9 billion — up 46% from 2022 — with Swift obviously contributing a significant chunk of that total. (This year, the trade reports that overall tour attendance is down, with flat grosses, representing a slight reckoning for the live industry that, obviously, isn’t impacting “Eras.”)

“What my partners and I talk a lot about is how it’s one thing to have a big tour in North America. It’s another thing to have an equally big tour wherever you are in the world and to do doubles and triples in these markets,” says Bernie Cahill, an Activist founding partner and manager of acts including the Grateful Dead and the Lumineers. “It’s an anomaly. It’s not normal. And don’t forget, you’re going into what I call asymmetric venues, which are venues that are not really built for music; these are venues that are built for football games or soccer games and can be very challenging to do music. And they get it right every time — Louis Messina [Swift’s tour promoter since her earliest days] and his team are world-class.” But for all that globe-trotting, he notes, “there are some artists that you see do a show and you know they don’t even know what city they’re in. I always feel like Taylor knows exactly where she is. She has a relationship with that city or that market and those fans and she’s connected to them in ways that are very authentic, that you can’t fake.”

The one big snafu in the rollout of “The Eras Tour” occurred in November 2022 when the Ticketmaster system melted down after too many North American dates went on sale at once, causing thousands of fans to experience long delays. The on-sale broke the all-time record for tickets sold in a single day at 2 million, but it also nearly broke the world’s largest ticketing platform. Swift herself was Teflon in this situation, as the blame fell on a ticketing system not capable of handling so much of the Swift-loving world at once. And although most of the problems people have with Ticketmaster are different from what fans faced in the “Eras Tour” debacle — mainly, hidden fees and monopolistic practices — it could have big legislative consequences anyway. Dean Budnick, co-author of “Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped,” believes that the Swift hullabaloo was the main catalyst for Congress enacting reform. “There’s no question that perhaps there’s gonna be some meaningful change in ticketing as a result of what people experienced with that on-sale.”

That sense Cahill spoke about of the singer making it clear to an audience she knows exactly where she’s at is in full force in Dublin. Swift introduces the “Folklore”/”Evermore” segment by suggesting that she had a spiritual locale in mind when she started writing that more intimate material, locked in during the first part of the pandemic. “It keeps me up at night all year long: Which era is the most Irish?” she half-jokes to the crowd. “I’m gonna make a case for it being ‘Folklore’ … This album’s imaginary world had a whole aesthetic — like I lived in this cabin in a really green, nature-y, moss-covered landscape. You see where I’m going?… Another thing that I think makes it more Irish than the other eras is, ‘Folklore’ was all about storytelling. And I know you hear this a lot, but you guys are naturally gifted storytellers, right?”

Later on, Swift will cement the local connection by playing, as a “secret” surprise acoustic song, “Sweet Nothing.” She doesn’t have to give the crowd any explanation for that: From the first notes, Irish Swifties will immediately recall that the lyrics reference to the coastal town of Wicklow. The real cherry on top of the show for locals at any international Eras Tour stop, though, comes with a customized moment each night during “We Are Never Getting Back Together” when the spotlight is put on backing dancer Kameron Saunders for a couple of seconds, as he blurts out something locally appropriate, and cheeky. One night in Dublin, it’s the Irish catchphrase “the neck of ye!”; on another, he yells out “pog mo thoin,” meaning “kiss my ass!”; the massive, knowing laugh that inside joke gets makes it clear this isn’t entirely an audience of American tourists after all.

But the basic theatrics and emotional currents remain consistent from show to show. If Swift is surprisingly reticent to make her “Eras Tour” numbers public, that may be, in part, her desire to keep the focus primarily on a personal fan connection. Music industry veterans are taken aback by Swift’s ability to be giant and intimate onstage. “She’s a master marketer of herself — and she is not afraid to be vulnerable to her fans,” says Michele Bernstein, who runs a consultancy that works with stars like Drake. Bernstein could almost be quoting the lyrics of “Mastermind,” where Swift describes herself in almost comically omniscient terms, then dives into a bridge about how no one would play with her as a little girl.

People like my guardian of the customs gate may complain about Swift’s songs centering on her romantic splits, but that subject matter magnifies her own insecurities and weaknesses, expressed in genuinely eccentric wordplay, in ways that keep the audience in thrall to someone they perceive as a humble underdog as well as a veritable cage fighter. She could do a $10 billion tour someday and still keep the crowd enraptured by how she measures up to, or rallies to exceed, the smallest man — or men, or Kardashians — in the world.

This plays out in the “Eras” show in all sorts of symbolic ways, like the new segment in the “Tortured Poets” section where she seems to have fainted from the vapors of failed romance. Dancers in tuxedos try to revive her while a swing version of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” plays over the PA. A pair of women dressed as nurses fit her with what looks like a majorette’s uniform — or, with all its off-white stripes, is it really meant to resemble a straitjacket? The resemblance is probably not coincidental. Swift fans know there’s nothing like a mad woman.

The most exhilarating moment that has been added to the show this year has her gliding down the ramp on a platform, appearing to anyone at floor level like she is levitating like the witch she makes herself out to be in “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” Taylor Swift: She was Agatha all along!

Yes, there is much to unpack. But in Dublin and in every other city where “Eras” has alighted, there is also pure inspiration for those who maybe haven’t always felt like they’ve had a voice, whether it’s her LGBTQ+ fan base or, well, women. It’s a modern transmutation of Beatlemania in which Swift manages to be all four Fabs, and a mirror, as well as object, of that gaze. You don’t have to be a woman to experience the explosion of pure female joy that takes place on a mass scale at an “Eras” gig, but for men, it doesn’t hurt to have a healthy sense of where you might sit on the female spectrum.

Outside Aviva Stadium, two young Londoners have formed their own two-woman straight-gay alliance: One is wearing a shirt with the hand- drawn words “You’re obsessive and crazy,” and the other’s shirt has the phrase “You’re gay,” each with an arrow pointing to the other. This echoes the original lyrics to Swift’s 2006 oldie “Picture to Burn,” which was rerecorded after some were offended by “gay” as a possible teen epithet. “I am obsessive and crazy, and she is gay,” laughs Zoe Gibson, pointing to her friend, India Day. “We want to bring back the original lyrics. We never found them homophobic — we want to reclaim it.” Day adds, “We’ve listened to her since we were 4 years old, so obviously there’s the nostalgia factor. But for me, she speaks on quite a lot of issues like gay rights and feminism, and all of her songs perfectly sum up the experience of being a woman.”

Some of the shirts are apropos for Pride Month. Seeing a boy of no older than 15 or 16 wearing a homemade “But Daddy I Love Him” shirt (the title of a “Tortured Poets” fan favorite), it’s easy to imagine some courage was required to don that apparel. Along the same lines, I spot any number of women making their own statement in shirts with the modified exclamation “But Daddy I Love Her.”

Gay or straight, 6 years old or 60-something, female or just female-allied, the crowd inside gets its sway on early in the show, with the arrival of the gentle, waltz-time “Lover.” It’s not one of the big set-pieces of this nonstop Broadway-style production — the spotlight is just on Swift and her acoustic guitar — but it might be the one where the entire audience feels like it’s at a four-minute campfire. No wicked witchiness here, just winsomeness.

Down on the floor, I’m seeing what amounts to a Taylor Swift mosh pit: gangs of two or three or five young women, ignoring the fact that Swift herself is just yards away from them on the ramp. They’re singing and acting out every last line to each other, as if the superstar isn’t even towering right over them. A waste of their euros? Hardly. Swift will capture their full attention again as the show proceeds, but in the moment, she isn’t just a superstar — she might be the world’s greatest community organizer.

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The lovely mutual @velocidaixxtor tagged me (it's been ages, maybe you'll remember haha, thank you <3)

Get to know your mutuals game!

What's the origin of your blog's title?: Leif Erikson by Interpol - All the people that you've loved they're all bound to leave some keepsakes

Favorite color: green

Favorite game: haven't played in years but The Sims 2 will always hold a special place in my heart, the custom content made by other gamers is amazing and I can spend hours on end decorating houses

Song stuck in your head: Counting Empties by Bleach Lab

Weirdest habit/trait? I usually leave the most delicious part of a meal on the plate and save it for last

Hobbies: reading, making lists of books I want to read and films I need to watch instead of actually reading or watching anything, trying new recipes

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? I would be an investigative journalist and constantly ruin reputations

Something you're good at: listening, observing, being patient

Something you're bad at: lying

Something you excel at: minimalism

Something you love: peaceful surroundings and good people

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: weird missing person cases, Russian grammar rules

Something you hate: phoniness and fakes, also billionaires shouldn't exist

Something you collect: concert tickets which gets harder when these days there are mostly only digital ones

Something you forget: too few things, that's a problem in itself

What's your love language? remembering random bits and pieces about a person

Favorite movie/show: change too often, but it's probably always something that fits the social realism category

Favorite food: whenever spinach is involved, count me in

Favorite animal: cat ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Are you musical? when I was six, I was able to play a children's song on a keyboard, that's about it

What were you like as a child? weird in disguise

Favorite subject at school? English, History & French

Least favorite subject? Chemistry

What's your best character trait? I'm getting told that I'm kind, empathetic and understanding

What's your worst character trait? I procrastinate way too often when it comes to unpleasant things I really don't want to do so I'm doing 500 other things before that

If you could travel in time who would you like to meet? my boy Franz Kafka

Last but not least, show your favorite fanart of your favorite character(s) recently I enjoy looking at the Interpol fanart @ruirichard shares on here

Tagging (only if you feel like sharing details about yourself) @virginiavvoolf, @endorstoiii, @tin-omen, @circlesofthelark, @isabella-von-fersen, @don-caballero & @urbanowa

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The absolute lovely @somekeepsakes tagged me to do this — thank you for remembering me for all this time 🥹

Get to know your mutuals game!

What's the origin of your blog's title?: it's the song Endors Toi by Tame Impala

Favorite color: purple 💜

Favorite game: The Sims franchise!

Song stuck in your head: Cuntissimo by Marina (I'm soooo addicted!!!)

Weirdest habit/trait?: sometimes the ends of my nails get a bit cold and I like to rub them on my lips 😬 (that's a hard question tbh)

Hobbies: unfortunately I don't have many, but I'll go with reading and playing The Sims

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?: I'd love to work with the bands I like, it could be at their shows or management stuff of whatever brings me closer to them, that makes us close workmates

Something you're good at: paying attention to details, I have a good memory and I'm good at unwinding threads

Something you're bad at: only one? Dealing with changes on my routine

Something you excel at: not gonna lie, I am a master in not answering people virtually (nothing proud of that!!!!)

Something you love: being alone preparing coffee in the morning, when the sun is soft and everything is peaceful and silent, you can only hear the birds singing

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: my fave bands, bizarre/dark stuff and The Sims

Something you hate: capitalism, social media in general and everything that comes with it (like influencers, fake stuff, how it makes people dumb etc). Oh, and AI. I hate AI.

Something you collect: I'll just go with the exact same answer as yours — concert tickets which gets harder when these days there are mostly only digital ones

Something you forget: to do the laundry. I do, I always do, but I don't organise it very well and I always end up forgetting a piece of clothing

What's your love language? I'm sorry, but I gotta use the same answer again hahah —remembering random bits and pieces about a person

Favorite movie/show: I don't have only one, so this time I'll pick Rosemary's Baby :)

Favorite food: I also don't have only one, so this time I'll go with lamen — it's getting cold here and I can only think about having a delicious lamen 😋

Favorite animal: my holy trinity of animals: cat, elephant and deer lol

Are you musical? Unfortunately not at all, but as a kid I used to play flute (not well, though haha)

What were you like as a child?: the prodigal one, nerd and weird lol

Favorite subject at school? Art, History, Philosophy, Portuguese and English

Least favorite subject? Chemistry and Physics

What's your best character trait?: empathetic and comprehensive, I think

What's your worst character trait: not answering messages 😭 (Laura, if you're reading this, I am sorry for the delay but I promise I will answer you properly 😭)

If you could travel in time who would you like to meet?: at first I'd say David Bowie, but I'll pick Oscar Wilde — I'm about to finish reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and I'm kinda obsessed with it

Last but not least, show your favorite fanart of your favorite character(s): I don't see much of it, but yeah there's some cool fanarts of Interpol, also cartoons I like such as The Owl House and Adventure Time

Not tagging anyone specific because I'm sooo off Tumblr, people don't even remember me lmaoo but in case anyone wants to do it, feel free to and tagged!! :)

[peachypede]

🔮🦄🎟👚 for Aman and the berries?

ask meme is here

🔮  — look into the crystal ball!  for a headcanon about a time my muse dabbled in fortune telling or mediumship; whether they sought one out or tried it themselves.

Aman

Doesn't believe in fortunes, but will tag along if someone asks if he wants to have his fortune told. He finds it an interesting practice but doesn't think it actually has any weight to it. Back in school days, Pecha would always read what their astrology signs said for the day.

Once worked with a psychic for a case and thought it was interesting. They didn't see eye to eye, but Aman at the end had more respect for them. (He mostly contributes their abilities to having been around psychic types for most of their lives. Although it's not technically proven, there is some proof in the pokemon universe that being raised along a certain type will grant you certain abilities.)

Pecha

The kind of girl to ask you what your birthdate is because she's trying to figure out what astrology sign you are. (Was over the moon when she learned Emmet was a Gothorita (Virgo) since Pecha is a Bouffalant (Taurus) because they're an ideal match apparently) Even if your astrology signs don't match up and she likes you, she romanticizes it as a "Our stars don't align but still we fell in love" sort of thing.

She's dabbled in tarot readings and has a tarot deck herself (it's bug type themed, of course), but she likes having someone else read her cards more. The Arcana she likes the most is The Lovers (can you guess why) unless she pulls it upside down of course.

Will drag you into the fortune telling tent at a carnival if you go on a date there. She thinks it's so cute and romantic to do couple's fortune telling.

Pecha is that one scene from Avatar the Last Airbender with Katara and that Fortune Telling Lady where she keeps coming back for more and more.

Rawst

Only knows that he's a Scolipede (Scorpio) because Pecha keep reminding him. Doesn't believe in fortune telling or psychics and personally doesn't like even being around that stuff. He just doesn't like people telling him things they "know" about him when they don't really know him.

Was dragged into a Psychic Reading at a Carnival by Pecha once. Was told he has the presence of death on him. Rawst said "Hell, yeah." then left the tent.

🦄— something wonderfully unique!   a headcanon about what my muse believes sets them apart from others in their life.

Aman

His wit and looks. 100% believes he's one of a kind and that's why he's confident when he's flirting. He has to keep his real job a secret, but the fact that he's made it into Interpol really boosted his ego a thousand fold. (Which may come off weird to people who only know him as a Depot Agent. Meanwhile Ingo and Emmet think he's just really proud to be a part of the team. They like that.)

Pecha

If asked this, she'd say creativity, but deep down Pecha doesn't believe there's anything special about her. This insecurity has lead her to overcompensate for something that she really doesn't have to. (Straight A Class President in high school...wanting to be a gym leader originally...) She's gotten better about it but the gifts she gives people are secretly an insecurity of "please don't forget me" because she thinks she's very boring and plain.

Rawst

He'd say creativity like Pecha but he actually means it. He used to be more insecure about what he brings to the table, but has gotten more confident when working with people and having them tell him they love his ideas. He's a lot more open about things he's working on now then in his past.

🎟— a ticket to the show! a headcanon about their favourite and/or least favourite concerts or performances they have attended.

Aman

Hasn't really been to much other than the ones his dads brought him to since Hassel is very into music, and those of course were 70s/80's bands that Hassel and Brassius liked that were still around and doing concerts. Hassel also brought him to garage concerts or gig nights of local bands in Artazon. Lots of older people there at the concerts and hardly any other kids like him, but Aman still enjoyed them.

He'd be down to going to one with friends if they wanted. He thinks they're fun even if it's not an artist he's particularly familiar with.

Pecha

Never went to a concert until she visited Galar in her early twenties with her dad after her big depressive slump. (It was a trip that Cal made to give Pecha a boost in mood, so instead of a lot of camping it was a lot of sightseeing and shopping) Pecha had a crush on Piers in high school and wanted to go to a concert of his. Her dad isn't a big fan of loud places plus he doesn't enjoy music all that much, so Pecha brought a "friend" along instead and had a blast.

Went with Elesa and Burgh to a concert in Nimbasa when she was doing well in Unova. She had no idea who the guy singing was but he was a deep voiced country singer and hot so it was alright. Mostly she danced with Elesa though.

Rawst

Too crowded...too loud...He's never been to a concert and he probably never will. He loves music but can't stand to think of how many people that'll probably bump into him and touch him throughout the thing, so he mostly watches the concerts on youtube afterwards or even live if they're streamed.

👚— pretty in pink!  for a headcanon about my muses wardrobe looks like and what their favourite colour to wear is.

Aman

What he wears to the Interpol office is in his ref, but casually he does wearing a lot of button ups still and dress shoes. Turtle necks are nice for layering.

For dates and parties, he has a dress shirt that is buttoned down to show off more of his chest. He's a guy that's not afraid of his scars. If anything, they're a flirting moment because he can be like "Want to touch my prosthetics?" and he gets people to hold his hand that way.

Stays with a dark berries sort of color palette to match with his hair

Pecha

Frills, pleats, lacey shirts and short dresses, whether it be formal or casual she has to have a skirt on.

High waists are a must. She dislikes showing tummy. Plus the skinniest part of her torso is just under her breasts so it gives a prettier silhouette that way.

Usually low necks and low sleeves to show off both tattoos and chest. The only part of her she's not insecure of showing off a bit is her chest. She knows she's an ideal size for most there.

She sticks to pastel pinks and greens. Pecha berry and bug types colors <3

Rawst

Goth and Emo boy. Likes hoodies and baggy sweaters because they hide his form. His on stream looks usually are more fancy then what he regularly wears out and about.

Wears platform boots a lot cause he wants to look TALLER

Pastel purple and green (ghosty colors plus his eye color) are his go to other than black

[ciaoriei]

i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concerti WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert i WILL get tickets to the next interpol concert

[sethshead]

-- Handel's "Sel Mio duol" | Lucy Crowe --

“'Amidst a cast of stars, Lucy Crowe presides in the title role. Vocally and dramatically, she surpasses herself in making her music tell of Rodelinda’s ascendancy' (BBC).

"Soprano Lucy Crowe shines in the title role of Handel’s 'Rodelinda.' Don’t miss her 'steely bravura' and 'thrilling mix of force and grace' when she joins Harry Bicket and The English Concert on December 10 at Carnegie Hall. Tickets: bit.ly/3sdIfVi"

h/t Carnegie Hall

Ooh, that sounds like the appropriate interpolation of agréments for the first time through. I wonder what Crowe’s da capo ornamentation will be!

[ragexlove]

[ticketselectionservice-blog]

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[astraveritas]

just bunch of stuff I noticed observing zodiac men 

★ men with aries placements are like taurus men and their touching but on crack. it’s not gentle and sensual, these men will try to fight you, make you wrestle with them, pull your hair, tease you just to get you to react and once you do react their eyes light up, like they just won a contest. “come on fight with me, you don’t wanna fight cause you know you’ll lose” headasses

★ if taurus placements man is attracted to you he will find a way to touch you or get close to you somehow, he needs to lean really close to you cause he just can’t hear what you’re saying, he has tripped and now has to steady himself by grabbing your arms or waist, “those stairs look really steep, here grab my arm”. they are so predictable it’s hilarious.

★ men with gemini placements performing their best stand up routine and staring at the person they like after every joke just to see if they made them laugh like *👀 please laugh*

★ you know men with cancer placements are taking you seriously and trust you if they invite you to their home. their home is really important place to them. it’s where their personality shines. it’s who they are. it’s their walls full of pictures of family and friends. photo albums and books their mother read to them when they were little and they could never throw them away, old concert tickets, blankets their grandmother made for them. they can’t let go of these things. so when they let you inside their little shell, you can tell they put huge amount of trust in you, they don’t do that to just anyone.

★ leo placements men are such attention whores when they like you. you meet and the next thing you know he’s taking off his shirt to show you his tattoos and muscles (leo placements men always end up half naked, it’s kinda their thing) and then running off to show you this cool trick he can do. overenthusiastic 5 year old and the family gathering energy, but he’s 26.

★ “peels tangerines and feeds the slices to you” school of virgo placement men flirting. they are very concerned by your vitamin intake. they actually start to be concerned a lot, like “did you eat breakfast? aren’t you cold? you look cold. I’ll go grab you a coat. and a scarf, six months ago you got sore throat without it”. like how do you even remember that? even I don’t remember that. they can’t have you walking around with a sore throat. they notice a lot of stuff, and try to be as useful and helpful as they can be.

★ libra placements men really focus on good manners in their partner, they want someone tactful and polite. they don’t want someone that could embarrass them in public. an acquaintance of mine was trying to flirt with this dude with libra venus/mars conjunction, out of nowhere she started cursing really loud while telling a story and let me tell you, the way everyone could see the visible disgust in this man's eyes, he said nothing, but if he had pearls he would be clutching them like an old lady in church.

★ if a man with scorpio placements is into you, you can play “where’s waldo?” with him, cause he will magically show up in the same place as you, and you catch him staring at you from behind a trashcan like “oh, there he is”. he will also start asking your friends about you, gathering information on you like he’s working for interpol.

★ men with sagittarius placements are flirting royalty, I know this title goes to libras or geminis a lot of times, but sagittarius placements men just bring more fun, laughter and fire into it. libras are polite and charming as hell in an old fashion way, geminis are witty and can rope you into flirtatious banter easily, but if anyone can flirt with you in a way you’re ready to risk it all, drop all the caution to the wind, and go live with him in a shitty van, it’s a sagittarius placement.

★ men with capricorn/saturn dominance in their chart really struggle with flirting. they are either not interested in this at all, so the person trying to flirt with them will feel like they are talking to a brick wall or they look like deer in the headlights when they realize someone is trying to flirt with them. either way, good luck to everyone who will try.  

★ I noticed that when they like someone too much men with aquarius placements will straight up pretend that this person does not exist, it’s weird. they will tell you they like this person and when said person is near they avoid eye contact, stand in a way you can’t see their face, they clam up and become shy, they go from pretty chatty with everyone to silence once their crush shows up. it’s completely different from their usual descriptions, fastest 180 I’ve ever seen. 

★men with pisces placements will try to get you alone, cause they’re trying to have little one on one time to “vibe” and “connect”, and then they’re like “crazy how you were in my dreams last night hahahaha” *👀👀👀* they’re always trying to make your relationship seem deeper than it is pretty quick. you had one “deep” conversation and now he thinks you’re his twin flame or something.

[dany36]

Interpol was fucking fantastic tonight. like…damn I haven’t really followed them after their fourth album but wow this just blew my mind, I’m so damn tired from all the dancing and singing. they played all the classics so this concert was just soooo fucking worth it. I’m glad I was able to find tickets for my bro and his gf as well after it seemed like they were sold out!! like, my bro taking me to my first concert in 2005 was actually to go see Interpol and the cure, so getting to experience this band live again with the bro was the best!!! seriously got so exhausted with all the singing we were doing lmao. PDA, Not Even Jail, and Stella Was a Diver And She Was Always Down were definitely the best. We kept screaming for Stella and the fact that they played it second-to-last was amaaaaaaazing!! the only other song I wish they had played was mammoth but oh well, what a great concert!!

edit:

found the setlist!!

[antique-traveler]

ok i love all the punk mattfoggy truth here,

do you have any punk headcanons for mattfoggy? >:)

ohoho yes i DO

so foggy’s been in the punk scene for a few years by the time he gets to columbia

his parents introduced him to the clash as a kid and it just grew from there

he’s really into more classic punk; dead kennedys, misfits, sex pistols, etc

matt’s been listening to more mainstream punk since he was a teenager but he never really got involved in the community until he met foggy

he started off listening to more “basic” stuff like green day, foo fighters, good charlotte, and i just know in my heart that this man listened to early my chem

also i think jack played stuff like pink floyd, led zeppelin, and the who for him growing up

they start to bond over music over the first semester at columbia and foggy gladly lets matt borrow his band shirts and stuff

eventually matt asks foggy to come along with him to get his first piercing, and after that he gets totally addicted to it lol

foggy has his left nostril, left eyebrow, snake bites, small gauges, and a second lobe piercing

i think foggy’s more into tattoos than piercings

he’s got a ton of small stick-and-pokes from friends of his, but all of his bigger pieces were professionally done

matt really likes being able to feel his body mods, so he prefers piercings

he’s got a septum, his right eyebrow, labret, cheeks, three lobe piercings, industrials, and barbells in each of his nipples lol

foggy helps him make some patch pants and convinces him to dye his hair

the thing is, though, that foggy knows jack shit about how to dye hair, and the box of red splat! was the cheapest dye he could find, so they ended up staining, like, the WHOLE bathroom and foggy’s arms up to his elbows

matt looks great with his red faux-hawk tho so it’s ok

i think there’s part of matt that really wants a full mohawk or liberty spikes or something but he knows they’d take way too much maintenance and they’d be more than difficult to style without eyesight, so he just stays happy with what he’s got

matt saved up for months and gets two tickets to an interpol concert for foggy’s birthday

they’re not very close to the stage, but foggy clings onto matt’s arm the whole time

interpol was the first band that they started to really get into together, and they both really love rest my chemistry, so a couple weeks after the concert they both get tattoos on their inner wrists of stop signs that say “OK”

all their professors and a lot of their classmates kinda hate them for looking how they do in law school, but they’re both so fucking smart that they’re in the top of their class anyway

sad bonus:

the night foggy finds matt bleeding out on his apartment floor, he doesn’t recognize him through the mask. the way he realizes the man in the mask is matt is by seeing the faded ok sign tattoo peaking out the bottom of his sleeve

[louis-in-red]

OMGGGGGG you’re back!!! TELL US EVERYTHINGGGGG. No detail is too small or insignificant, I want it allllll <3

OMG IT WAS AMAZING!!!

I was actually in the section of the back, but the atmosphere there was CRAZY!! Like people kept doing mosh pits during the most hardcore songs (we call those here “pogo” 🤣) specially during 505, Teddy Picker, Dancefloor. They started with Brianstorm (GREAT OPENER! it hyped everyone out so much since the beginning) and then continued with Snap Out of It and Crying Lighting and the people went WILD!!

I was with a pretty big group (with one of my brothers, his friends and two of my friends) so we managed to secure a spot as a group but during the mosh pits we almost loose my brother 😭 we found him afterwards tho 🤣 we also made some friends during the concert 🤣 everyone was so nice 😭😭😭

I can’t explain it but the energy was through the roof! I couldn’t see properly because there were tall people in front of me haha but I did see the screens most of the time and Alex was so sexy 😭 like I kept screaming “daddy” the whole time because he was so daddy 😭 with his white collar shit and his jacket 😭 Matt was also extra daddy handling those drums in a sexy way 🔥 and his high notes??? SIR!!! Take me 😭

I was actually surprised everyone knew all the songs 🤣 specially the new ones! Like the crowd was a 100% on it and the band felt it! Also the opener was Interpol so the crowd was already pretty hyped for a rock show! I was pretty proud with the Peruvian crowd 🤣 I think we didn’t disappoint and luckily they didn’t have to stop the show. My other brother (who was in the front section) told me one girl passed out but luckily there was security already prepared so they took her out quickly to the emergency room.

I think one of my favourite moments was Do I Wanna Know, even tho it’s not one of my favourite songs, listening it live is a whole different story! And the crowd was so extra during that song! All the songs are better live in my opinion and since Alex’ voice is actually the same as the record, they as a band are just pure magic!

They closed the show with Body Paint (a rockier version) and it was so hot! Like 💯 points to whoever thought it was a good call because it definitely was!! We were already so high and they ended the concert with that song was so on point!!

They played for almost 2 hours which was so good in terms of money value! Like the tickets I got were so cheap considering is ARCTIC MONKEYS, and even the ones in the front were not so expensive (taking into consideration the openers were Interpol as well, I think it was pretty cheap).

Sadly they didn’t play Sculptures even though it was on the official setlist due to technical problems 🥺 so a bit sad about that one but overall I’m still so high from yesterday!! I’m dead tired and already on my way to work but I had an amazing time surrounded by friends and my siblings (we found my other brother at the end of the concert) and even though I’ve only slept for three hours, I’m so happy I got the opportunity to see them because they really know how to put on a show!

Also, I didn’t see this, but my friend told me in one moment (I think during crying lighting) Alex was humping the mic stand 😫 I’m sad I missed that haha but I would’ve probably pass out if I saw that in real life 🤣 my brother who was in the front said Alex was one of the most sexiest man alive and that the band was PERFECT! It was his first concert🥺 so extra special for him!! He now says Alex is his man crush 🤣

Overall… 10/10 amazing experience!! I think all the song choices were on point and perfect to create an electric atmosphere!! They do know how to put on a show!! IM SO HIGH STILL!!! 😭

PS: I loved yelling “perhaps fuck off might be too kind” during Do Me A Favour along 21,000 people 🤭

[bestdjkit]

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[laylabayrne-blog]

Buy Interpol tickets for an upcoming shows at eTickets.ca. Find list of Interpol event schedules, concert details and seating chart.

[baristamaniac]

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