one of my favorite threats is “youre not invited to my birthday party anymore”.
from ages 4 to 11 its one of the most heinous things you can say, then 12 through 17 its just embarassing cuz teenz think that thats a childish thing to say, but from 18 onward, it only gets more and more effective, if only because it confuses the person youre speaking to.
its like a verbal smoke bomb. it catches them off guard and disorients them to the point that they might not even know how to react.
level 107: Justin just inhaled at a pitch higher than usual while Griffin was yelling and Travis sipped some water and i can tell by the mood Griffin is in that he’s wearing his favorite blue shirt and they’re recording at 10 in the morning
listening to MBMBAM after TAZ was the worst choice of my entire life because every time they say “word of mouth” it triggers flashbacks to that one scene and that’s just. bad luck.
If cinematic action music was written for piano & chamber strings
I always thought most of my action music was best suited for, well, action
and then I accidentally arranged one of my bombastic orchestral overtures for piano and strings and it sounded a billion times better
I also didn’t notice Tchaikovsky’s direct influence on the piano part until I created this arrangement of it. My slight echoes of his piano concerto opening were originally written for brass
“So I’m being held, and every person in this body is being held to a higher ethical standard than the President of the United States?”
“That’s right, ‘cause there are some ethics committee rules that apply to you.”
“And it’s already super legal, as we’ve seen, for me to be a pretty bad guy, so it’s even easier for the President of the United States to be one, I would assume.”
“That’s right.”
“Thank you very much.”
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