#"Bring It On Home To Me"

[filosofablogger]

♫ Playing For Change Week Grand Finale ♫

Wow, I can’t believe this week is over already!  I’ve had a lot of fun with this music from the Playing For Change Foundation and I really hope you’ve enjoyed it, too!  As I usually do on the last day of my week-long artist tributes, I’m playing a few of the ones I didn’t cover during the week … no lyrics this time, just the music!  Most of these are from the ‘Songs From Around the World’…

[art-is-kayos]

Homeward Bound - Smokey Old Man Outis and Heathcliff

[beatcroc]

homest[ar/uck] posting. this was meant to be supplementary to the gerome comic as him 'explaining the joke' but i uhhhhhh forgot.

i'm not much for crossovers in the the traditional sense, but it IS one of my favorite character exploration exercises to just go like 'if x media existed in this universe, who would and would not be a fan of it?'. and these ones are pretty notorious and always very fun to mess with for that and so here we are

[lk0727]

Twisted Wonderland Novel 2: I had grown tired of thinking… I knew I was just running away from what had pained me, but nonetheless, my heart felt lighter. With enough distance between you and the subject, you’ll lose all desire for it. The warmth of the sun, the smell of new leaves, the damp wind of the rainy season— it’s nothing but a blur when seen from so far away.

[mengyan]

when it comes to people who acknowledge and love all sides of jiang xuening, shen zhiyi cannot be forgotten.

yes, dianxia does have a bit of a lovesick filter on when it comes to her beloved ningning, but she also knows who jiang xuening is as a person. she isn’t so blind as to casually miss her fierce temper, ignore her schemes and manipulation, and disregard her poor choices— you can see it in shen zhiyi’s expressions and tone, the concerns she voices, and particularly through her perspective in the novel— but these things could never make her love jiang xuening any less.

shen zhiyi isn’t oblivious. she knows that jiang xuening uses her at times to get what she wants, but what’s important is that she doesn’t care. she never has and she never will, because everything she does is her choice. she only wants jiang xuening to know that she doesn’t have to do anything at all to get her support, because she will always be there by her side, without any conditions attached.

there is no doubt that jiang xuening is the person she trusts most in the world. even if jiang xuening makes a decision she doesn’t particularly agree with, she will still never raise any complaint to her. shen zhiyi trusts that jiang xuening’s judgment and choices are right for herself, even if they’re not right to her, and it’s as simple as that. if there are any consequences, she will be there to resolve them. jiang xuening couldn’t lose her if she tried.

shen zhiyi and xie wei are the only two characters in kunning who see past all of jiang xuening’s sides, good and bad, and still recognize her true heart. the way they love her is different but also the same; if shen zhiyi is her shield, then xie wei is her sword.

and jiang xuening chooses them both.

[get-back-homeward]

—From In His Own Write (1964) | First published in Mersey Beat August 17, 1961 | Written 1958-1959 (see below)

Q: There’s a very, very sad poem at the end of the play about Kakky Hargreaves who is some sort of person whose name changes during the poem who’s gone lost. Who was Kakky Hargreaves?

JOHN: Well, nobody, you know. It was Kakky, or Cathy, or Tammy. So it was all those people. But the point is that you GOT it -- the sadness that I wrote into it. But after you write something, a song or anything, you get the sadness and then you perform it or you put it on paper and then that’s gone. And the only way you get the joy back of writing it or the sadness back, is when somebody like Victor or somebody else comes and reads it to you, or acts it out. Like, when I first saw the rehearsal of the play, and they said these words back to me and I got the sadness from Kakky Hargreaves like I’d never heard it before.

Q: You wrote that one when you were very young.

JOHN: Yes. That was, sort of, pre-Beatle. Eighteen. Nineteen.

VICTOR: (laughs)

Q: And have you written lately?

JOHN: Well I write, I think, all the time. So I mean, it’s the same. I actually don’t put it on paper so much these days, but it goes into songs -- A lot of the same energy that went into those poems. I don’t know what I actually do with the thoughts, but they come out either on film, or on paper, or on tape. I’ve just got lots of tape, which, I suppose if I put onto paper it would be a book. But it’s just a matter of, do I want to make those tapes into paper or make the tapes into records.

Q: Does it feel the same to you when you’re writing something on paper and when you’re writing a song lyric?

JOHN: It does now. In the old days I used to think, if song writing was this... you know, 'I love you and you love me,' and my writing was something else, you know. Even if I didn’t think of it quite like that. But I just realized through Dylan and other people... BOB Dylan, not Thomas... that it IS the same thing. That’s what I didn't realize being so naive -- that you don’t write pop songs, and then you DO THAT, and then you DO THAT. Everything you do is the same thing, so do it the same way. But sometimes I’ll write lyrics to a song first and then I'll get the same feeling as Kakky Hargreaves or a poem and then write the music to it after. So then it’s a poem, sung. But sometimes the tune comes and then you just put suitable words to fit the tune. If the tune is (sings) 'Doodle-loodle loodle-leh,' and then you have 'Shag-a-boo choo-cha.' You know, you have sound-words then, just the sound of it. ‘Cause it IS all sound. Everything is vibrations, I believe, you know. Everything is sound, really, or vision. And just, the difference between sound and vision I’m not quite sure about. But its all just (imitates a vibrating sound) 'vuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh.'

—BBC-2 Interview of John Lennon and Victor Spinetti (about the In His Own Write play) [x] | June 6, 1968

—Remember by John Lennon | Written: started July 1969 | Recorded: October 9, 1970 (John’s 30th birthday), after seeing his father the last time | Released: December 11, 1970

—Get Enough by Paul McCartney | Written: 2016-2018 (?) | Recorded: 2018 | Released: January 1, 2019 (midnight)

[cicicolorao]

The puppet extends its self for the eyes surrounding it, a body soft enough to cradle their weary souls. Rarely does a mother follow behind, usually left to wonder where her fruit has gone to, but sometimes sacrifices must be made.

[madamescarlette]

I love you BatB retellings that make the sisters asking for jewels and riches into a loving joke between the lot of them and Beauty asking for a rose being something real, something tangible and achievable for their father to bring back, it means so much to me!!

[rainingincale]

Why is being a living exisiting human being so very confusing 🙃

[yourestillinsidemyhead]

know that I still stay here in the place we once knew

where you last saw me

you never said goodbye or when you were coming back

but i have faith that one day you will.

[get-more-bald]

the thing is that I'm constantly in a fandom mood to distract myself from everything. but when I fall out of that mood I just think I'm worthless for not having a personality beyond chronically online idiot.

[tvrningout-a]

starter call | @ninjassin encounters chiyo!

" so... that was my grandma. " she's a lil awkward in her delivery, gaze bouncing from timmy's expression to the sidewalk and back. " won't lie, i was more nervous for you to meet her than my parents. she's great, obviously, but she's more... well, she can put you on the spot. " even if the old woman waits till they're alone, even if it's in private, chiyo's well-acquainted with her grandmother's talks. she's the type of person to ask a question and expect an honest answer -- whether she has to wrestle it out of you or not.

her fingers curl around timmy's hand, and chiyo chances another glance at his face. " that wasn't too much, was it? "

[nuzzlenarry]

Sad rant

[o-oiguess]

Alright. I'm in a predicament.

For those who are following along on the intrepid dice journey of mine. You would know that out of the members of the mighty nein, I have;

The Wizards

The Taliesin Characters

And of course

The Lesbians,

With the high seas couple and mama Veth coming home soon

But the beacon server has notified me that to complete the collection of mighty nein character dice, I shouldn't forget the traveler.

[vivanightcity]

a fun challenge: finding someone to ship Yash with who is worse than Dex xD

[kindlythevoid]

“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.”

Frodo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring pg. 68