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telomeke-bbs · 2 years

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BAD BUDDY FILMING LOCATIONS 4

This post continues my three previous ones (links here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) on filming locations for Bad Buddy. This instalment focuses more on Pat’s engineering faculty. ⚙️📐😊

Bad Buddy’s indoor university scenes were filmed at Rangsit University (RSU) in Pathum Thani, part of Greater Bangkok. (Outdoor university scenes, e.g., rugby games and practice, were mostly filmed at Bangkok University – see Part 3 linked above.)

RSU is a private campus that is a very popular filming location for university-set Thai BLs (SOTUS and Fish Upon the Sky were two other series that filmed here). For Bad Buddy it looks like the production team took pains to make the campus look more generic and less readily identifiable (to set it apart from other shows I suppose). They did this by filming more at newer campus buildings, or using fewer long shots and more close-ups when filming in older ones already seen in other BLs.

This is evident during the scenes set at RSU’s Buildings 5, 5/1 and 5/2, which house the RSU College of Engineering. Home to the iconic cogwheel archway that we saw in SOTUS, these buildings were the setting for Pat’s Engineering Faculty at SouthTechnology University.

(above) Location of RSU College of Engineering, used to represent Pat’s Engineering Faculty

The College of Engineering comprises a mix of older and newer blocks. The older ones make heavy use of fair-faced brick contrasted with white-plastered concrete for their façade articulation, while the newer blocks play with more gray tones, and use black-framed windows and a lot of narrow horizontal white-colored grilles in the treatment of their building elevations. These elements (among others) were some of the visual clues that helped situate various BBS scenes in this corner of Rangsit University. With corroborating images from the RSU College of Engineering Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/EngineeringRSU/photos/?ref=page_internal) many scenes that were shot within this complex of buildings can be identified, even if their exact locations on plan cannot be ascertained.

(above) An aerial view of the College of Engineering from the YouTube video บรรยากาศมหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต (มุมสูง) timestamp 3.20, posted by RSU Media Rangsit University on 27 April 2017, and showing the mix of red brick, white plaster, white louvers, black framing and gray walls

Some of the scenes that can definitely be tied to this cluster of buldings include:

Wai cornered by the Engineering gang in front of a wall of street art depicting a fantastical white tiger (Ep.1 [1I4] 0.57).

(top) BBS Ep.1 [1I4] 1.01; (bottom) image off the College of Engineering’s Facebook dated 7 May 2021

Pat buying iced milk tea in the courtyard of his faculty, then having a discussion with his friends at a picnic table – Ep.1 [1I4] 10.06 (close up of iced milk tea stall at Ep.1 [1I4] 9.52). Also the location of Pat rebuking the Engine gang for posting the video that triggered the bus-stop destruction fight – at Ep.3 [4/4] 0.22, and convincing them to help rebuild the bus-stop at Ep.3 [4/4] 4.03.

(top) The iced milk tea stall at Pat’s faculty (Ep.1 [1I4] 10.11) – the adjacent picnic table was also where Pat rebukes his Engine friends for triggering the bus-stop destruction fight (Ep.3 [4/4] 0.22) and where he convinces them to help re-build it (Ep.3 [4/4] 4.03); (middle left) the real life café named ดูดดื่ม คาเฟ่ at RSU College of Engineering, seen here in a photo dated 16 Oct 2020 on the college’s Facebook; (middle right) the black-framed pergolas and timber decking in a photo dated 6 April 2019 on the college’s Facebook; (bottom) a Jan 2018 photo of the café on Google Maps taken by Kassana Kuchakorn (note the timber decking, pergola at the rear left and the picnic table with the curved legs that match the photo at the top)

The Engine gang spying on the Archi boys at Ep.1 [2/4] 4.51.

(top) BBS Ep.1 [2/4] 4.51; (bottom) a photo from the College of Engineering’s Facebook dated 14 November 2020, showing the same white concrete parapets with red curved railings; the white horizontal louvers at the left of the image are also reflected in the glass behind Safe (in the photo at the top)

Pat and Pran’s guitar/drum face-off at the music room (scene beginning Ep.1 [2/4] 8.08), also Korn, Mo and Chang beating Pran up after mistaking him for Wai (Ep.1 [2/4] 11.41 and Ep.1 [3I4] 0.24).

(top) The music room at Ep.1 [2/4] 8.22; (second and third from top) Korn, Mo and Wai beating Pran up at Ep.1 [2/4] 11.41 and Ep.1 [3I4] 0.24 – the music room is behind the dark grey car, while the artwork in the window is a match with the photo at the top; (bottom) this image from the College of Engineering’s Facebook dated 3 October 2019 is a rough match for the music room – the sliding door frames, vertical blinds and steps are the same, and the red and white lettering on the glass at the top right of the photo are also visible to the right of Korn’s head in the third photo from the top

Pat trailing Pran to the photocopy shop at Ep.1 [2/4] 10.29.

(top) Pat trailing Pran to the photocopy shop at Ep.1 [2/4] 10.29 – the white struts of the Rangsit University Student Center are just visible in the distance at the top right of the image; (middle left) exterior view of the College of Engineering – the staircase to the photocopy shop that we see at Ep.1 [2/4] 10.29 is at the right of this image; (middle right) the white struts of the Rangsit University Student Center; (bottom) the location of the photocopy shop on plan within the College of Engineering – this is about the only spot that allows a direct sightline to the white struts of the RSU Student Center

Pat and Pa dropping Pran off (after Pat saves him from being beaten up) at Ep.1 [3I4] 2.05.

(top) Just before Pat and Pa drop Pran off (Ep.1 [3I4] 2.05) – RSU building 1 is in the far background, to the right of the image; (middle) location of the drop-off between the Patana Gallery and the covered car parking lots of the College of Engineering; (bottom) the Patana Gallery is the black-framed building on the right, and the metal grilles on its façade can be seen behind Pat and Pa at Ep.1 [3I4] 2.15 while the terminalia mantaly tree with its tiered branching next to the College of Engineering building on the left can be seen at Ep.1 [3I4] 2.03 just behind the curved white car park roof

The Archi v. Engine fight at Ep.1 [4/4] 2.26 – where PatPran’s plan to dupe their gangs into peace didn’t pan out.

(top) The fight at Ep.1 [4/4] 2.26; (bottom) this image dated 14 Nov 2020 from the College of Engineering’s Facebook page is a match (note the palm trees, the angled rain water downpipes, the windows and the corrugated metal siding on the building)

The Archi and Engine gangs discussing how to rebuild the bus-stop they had destroyed (at Ep.4 [1I4] 1.14, with the Rangsit University Student Center in the background). The scene is notable because it summarizes where PatPran are and what’s to come shortly after – Archi on one side, Engine on the other, and Wai in between the two of them. This is also near the photocopy shop.

(top) The scene starting at at Ep.4 [1I4] 1.14 of PatPran and their respective gangs having their discussion on how to rebuild the bus stop they destroyed while fighting; (middle) a view of RSU Building 5 from Google Maps (the cogwheel entrance archway seen in SOTUS is at the right) – the location marked ‘A’ is approximately where the bus stop discussion took place; (bottom) the RSU Student Center is the building that we see behind Wai at Ep.4 [1I4] 1.38 (note the True Space signboard)

PatPran’s surreptitious pinky-link as they pass each another in the faculty courtyard, after they took their relationship back on the down-low (Ep.12 [3I4] 4.16).

(top) The scene at Ep.12 [3I4] 4.16, just before PatPran’s pinky-link; (bottom) image dated 14 Nov 2020 from the College of Engineering’s Facebook, with corroborating visual details (cloverleaf grass paving, white horizontal louvers, black-framed glazing, gray walls, red parapet railings)

The corroborating details in the the College of Engineering's Facebook photographs situate Pat's Faculty of Engineering firmly at RSU’s Buildings 5, 5/1 and 5/2. 😊 To the BBS production team's credit, the scenes filmed there really did not call SOTUS to mind (although matching details can be found if you look closely enough) – any obvious similarity was masked with judicious siting and careful angles. 👍💖

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[Afterpost Edit – for the location of Pran's Architecture Faculty, check out Bad Buddy Filming Locations 5.

The full list of BBS filming locations is as follows:

Part 1 – The legendary rooftop, PatPran’s student apartments, their high school, the white arches behind the Engineering Canteen, the Zero Waste Village and various seaside scenes, their honeymoon suite, the hospital where Pat was treated for his gunshot graze, and the high school reunion.

Part 2 – Pat and Pran’s family homes, the Flagpole Bar, the car park fight location, and the Jae Si Curry House.

Part 3 – Various locations at and around the rugby field, including Pat’s photoshoot with Ink, the rugby bleachers, the iced milk tea (and green tea wave) picnic table, InkPa’s photography picnic, the old bus stop and the new bus stop. Also Khun Noppharnach’s pharmacy.

Part 4 – Pat’s Engineering Faculty (in and around Rangsit University’s College of Engineering).

Part 5 – Pran’s Architecture Faculty (Rangsity University’s School of Architecture).

Part 6 – Various F&B and commercial locations (eateries, shops, malls and a market).

Part 7 – Pat’s post-graduation apartment and Pran’s residence in Singapore.

Part 8 – Various campus locations filmed within Rangsit University’s Digital Multimedia Complex, including the auditorium and the Freshy Day Song Contest.

Part 9 – The LogTech Building and Pran’s architectural office in Singapore.

Part 10 – Locations for the Our Skyy 2 x Bad Buddy special episodes.

Part 11 – The apartment for rent that Pran went to view in Ep.2, the elevator scene with Pat just after the viewing, and Wai’s apartment.

Part 12 – PatPran’s elementary and high schools, as well as the location of Pa’s near-drowning.

Part 13 – Random locations (Pran searching for his lost earphones, the covered car park where Wai spied on Pat serenading Pran with Nanon's Love Score, the airport car park, the SouthTech U Library, PatPran's rainy day ointment interlude, their motorbike and truck rides in Hua Hin, the approach road to Uncle Yod's bar, the filming location for the music videos Just Friend? and Our Song, and Pran's street address in Singapore).

Will update this list if I can track down the hardware stores – the one remaining location still unidentified! 🤣]

#bad buddy filming locations #bad buddy locations #bad buddy analysis #telomeke #patpran

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absolutebl · 3 years

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This Week in BL

April 2021 Part 3

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Second Chance Ep 3 - this is proper YA, they are dealing with actual high school issues, picking uni, first crushes, online dating, etc... We even got a senior prom trope which almost never happens in Thai stuff (just the freshman uni competition variant). Standard plot pacing means PaperFah’s kiss was too early, might indicate we’re moving to uni in the second half of the series? Tropes included: let me feed you, hand hold, black & white striped shirt, floppy drunk & first kiss.

Y-Destiny Ep 3 - the first MaxNat ep. Such fun to see them playing different characters. This one is enemies to lovers, tutor/student, but it’s using the “poor little rich kid loose cannon” archetype. Nat is doing his best, but it’s leaving me cold. Lots of tropes tho: boyfriend’s closet, floppy drunk, pillow clutch, the loom & water bottle.

Lovely Writer Ep 8 - solid installment, good use of many tropes. I really like the leads and I’m glad there isn’t much side dish action, SibGene gave us: punish, touch your face, boyfriend claiming, kissing, sleep cuddling, symmetry, rooftop, cheek kiss, hand hold, and pillow clutch.

Call It What You Want Ep 3-4 - couldn’t find the subs, don’t really care, will watch if it crosses my radar, otherwise I’m just not into it.

Brothers Ep 11 - the “everyone wants Chol” show continues (but WHY?), he and Tri are cute together, and now I kinda just want Prab to end up with the twins. I’m confused by the teachers, but Boston showed up (from UWMA), and my boys KhunKaow got together (YES!), so I’m ultimately delighted with the episode.

Fish Upon The Sky Ep 2 - the makeover happened, and we go from cute with glasses and braces to cute without them. (I’m reminded of those 90′s Pygmalion teen movies where the girl has glasses + ponytail and then *GASP* does not and *GASP* she’s HOT. This was the BL version.) Meanwhile, writers better be careful with Pi, he’s getting too tsundere to like. Did you see they gave AJ a 2gether music intro & pick up line? Well, it’s actually his brother JJ who plays Ohm in 2g. I cackled. GMMTV - you so cheeky.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

HIStory 4: Close To You (Taiwan) Ep 5 - half way point. My poor confused babies. It was a really sweet episode... if what happened before hadn’t happened in the way that it had. Also, these boys have a GREAT friendship but are probably the worst advice givers ever.

Most Peaceful Place (Vietnam) Ep 3 fin - so cute! Our boys confessed and got together. There was an adorable mutual kiss (I love me a mutual, like Ingredients). Afterwards, they actually seemed to communicate with each other about both sex and their relationship. OMG. How original for BL! This was the last episode, so the series is short, but I still enjoyed it very much. RECOMMENDED.

My Lascivious Boss (Vietnam) Ep 1-2 - oh boy this one is rough, we started out with homophobia child abuse and moved on to family drama + drunken dub-con one night stand. But production values and subs are better than normal for Vietnam (You Are My Boy levels) + our queer babies are out & proud + it’s higher heat + I’m weak. So I’m watching.

Word of Honor (China) Ep 25-27 - honestly not much happened, lots of back story. Things are looking dire for the ghosts unless they can turn the Scorpion (I LOVE HIM, he’s my precious deadly baby). Don’t know how they managed to make loosing a battle with an immortal sword god ex-friend cute... but they did. Did some calculations and at 36 eps, mathematically speaking, ep 30 will be the equivalent of a standard BL ep 11. Should I be scared for next week?

Nobleman Ryu’s Wedding (Korea) Ep 1-2 - it’s so effing adorbs, soft bois do old fashioned tropes like arranged marriage + evil stepsisters meets the more modern fake relationship + secret identity in a surprisingly comfortable mix. It launched with baby is a floppy drunk, forced proximity, performative I saw you feed him, and some fun gay panic. It’s a lot lighter and faster paced than I was expecting, but this is Korea so I don’t know why I’m surprised.

Stand Alones

K-pop band OnlyOneOf dropped a new MV that is basically BL bait, using many of the tropes we know and love. I promise I’m not trying to lure anyone into K-pop I just thought it was interesting how consciously they’re yaoi dipping.

Spin-off We Best Love Fighting Mr. 2nd, Shou Zhen | the Only Love Letter Once Written (SERIOUSLY WITH THE TITLES TAIWAN?) anyway there’s a something or other 25 minutes featuring Pei Shou Yi and his boy that aired Friday. It’s about 10 minutes of reboot footage with 15 min of new content, mostly set in the past. It entirely rests on Chih Tian Shih’s acting, fortunately for us he’s great. However, it doesn’t substantially change or add to these characters’ arcs from the finale of WBL season 2. I don’t know if there will be more or if this was just an extra footage fan service.

COLOR RUSH GOT ITS MOVIE!!! Okay this is almost the tipping point for me to get Viki Standard. It’s listed at 1:56 minutes long but the original series had only c.120 running time - that is a lot of new content. Although i was disappointed by To My Star’s movie I loved Wish You’s, so I am hoping Color Rush got Wish You level treatment. That said, I feel Color Rush the series is damn near perfect already, hard to improve on perfection.

Breaking News

Close Friend the series got an updated trailer featuring MaxNat (no subs) so if you like them in Y-Destiny or in Why R U get ready for them to play different characters again, this time for a sports romance segment. Like Y-Destiny, Close Friend looks to be another series of vignettes (Original trailer) coming April 22.

2gether the movie (Thai trailer) was intended release April 22 but is now postponed due to a surge in C19 cases in Thailand.

Tell the World I Love You, a Thai BL movie that was supposed to release last week, is similarly delayed.

My Ride has been postponed indefinitely with no airing date.

The Miracle of Teddy Bear got a teaser vid, no eng subs.

Gossip

Thai BL actors Nanon (Bad Buddy), Yoon (YYY), and Mark Siwat (LBC, Bite Me) have tested positive for C19. Press releases stated they’re fine, tho filming has paused fore their various projects, obvs. (No word on whether Nanon’s current project was Bad Buddy or not, although it seems likely given his recent Arm Share episode.)

Next Week Looks Like This:

Some shows may be listed later than actual air date for International accessibility reasons.

Upcoming 2021 BL master post here.

Links to watch are provided when possible, ask in a comment if I missed something.

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2020 - BEST ALBUM

AWARD NO.2 - BEST ALBUM OF 2020

PAST WINNERS

2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)

2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)

2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)

2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’

2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’

2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’

2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’

2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’

1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’

1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’

1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’

1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’

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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.

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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these collections

Bulbils (Richard Dawson & Sally Pilkington) - 50 lockdown albums

Dean Blunt ‘Roaches 2012-2019’

These New Puritans ‘The Cut (2016-2019)’

Hudson Mohawke ‘B.B.H.E.’ & ‘Poom Gems’

Various Artists ‘Paul Institute - Summer 2020’

Various Artists ‘Return To Y’Hup - The World Of Ivor Cutler’

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***SPOTIFY PLAYLIST FEATURES TRACKS FROM TOP 80 ALBUMS (coming later) ***

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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly. A list for future me to revisit.

Still House Plants / Fire-Toolz / Lomelda / Jerskin Fendrix / Zebra Katz / The Bug / Lorenzo Senni / Diamond Soul / Wilma Archer / Black Dresses / The Fantasy Orchestra / William Carkeet / Bonny Light Horseman / KA / Yung Lean / BlackPink / Rural Internet / Okay Kaya / Future / Belan / Tame Impala / Banoffee / JARV IS / Grimes / Whitmer Thomas / Jeff Parker / The Massacre Cave / Porridge Radio / Selena Gomez / Teyana Taylor / Sparkle Division / Cecile Believe / Lyra Pramuk / Waxahatchee / Happyness / Khruangbin / Bananagun / OHMME / Drakeo The Ruler / Missterspoon / Juice WRLD / Lonnie Holley / Jiafeng / October Drift / Roisin Murphy / KeiyaA / Dizzee Rascal / Salem / Tiña / The Weeknd / Aaron Cartier / Dana Gavanski / A.R. Pinewood / The Cool Greenhouse / Royce Da 5’9’’ / Rachel Aggs / Karl Band / Four Tet / Georgia / Sonic Boom / Kali Uchis / Luis Pestana / Salac / David A Jaycock / Klein / Temple After Faith / Roman Noseband / Dylan Henner / G.S. Sultan / Hinds / Jess Williamson / Coby Sey / Randolph’s Leap / Matthew D. Gantt / Stephen Kerrison / Katie Gately / Snails / Juniore / Good Dog / Lil B / Kamaiyah / Ryuichi Sakamoto / The Big Moon / Zoe Mc Pherson / Holy Fuck / Ovrkast / Reol / Andy Shauf / Ethan Gruska / Poliça / D Smoke / Sign Libra / Chara & YUKI / Wiley / Bad Bunny / Shirley Collins / Jordana / Gaika / DJ Python / North Americans / Michael / Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Lido Pimienta / Everything Is Recorded / Lwesberg / Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams / Rhodri Davies / LA Priest / Ian William Craig / Flohio / Irreversible Entanglements / Islet / Westside Gunn / Empress Of / NNamdi / Warm Digits / Baxter Dury / Kehiani / Eels / Emmy The Great / Owen Pallett / Elysia Crampton / The Beths / Julianna Barwick / Liv.E / Jimothy Lacoste / Ben Frost / J Hus / Sylvan Esso / Haiku Hands / Ariana Grande / Jean Dawson / Food House / Nuala Honan / Helena Deland / Boldly James / Headie One / Oliver Coates / Lowkey-E / Bree Runway / Warren Ellis / Boldy James & The Alchemist / Young Knives / Little Dragon / The Garden / Melt Yourself Down / Quakers / Kamasi Washington / Mogwai / Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven / Eyeliner / ‘The Whalebone Box’ OST / Special Interest / Teyana Taylor / Nadine Shah / Tricky / Moor Mother / Nick Storring

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2020 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

William Basinski ‘Lamentations’

Hook ‘Crashed My Car’

Vic Berger IV ‘Late Enough To See The Moon’

Nines ‘Crabs In A Bucket’

My Morning Jacket ‘The Waterfall II’

Firestations ‘Dream Home’

Moses Boyd ‘Dark Matter’

Dick Dent ‘Life’s Hard’

Nicholas Stevenson ‘Dead Arm, Vol.2’

Otto ‘Clam Day’

Pa Salieu ‘Send Them To Coventry’

Undermedvetenheten ‘Undermedvetenheten’

Martha Ffion ‘Nights To Forget’

Adrianne Lenker ‘Songs’

Happy Spendy ‘You’re Doing Okay’

Mark Korven ‘The Lighthouse’ OST

21 Savage and Metro Boomin ‘Savage Mode II’

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa’

Three Queens In The Mourning & Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Hello Sorrow / Hello Joy’

Shopping ‘All Or Nothing’

Megan Thee Stallion ‘Good News’

Obongjayer ‘Which Way Is Forward?’

Mush ‘3D Routine’

Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury & The Insects ‘Devs’ OST

Luke Abbott ‘Translate’

Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’

Princess Nokia ‘Everything Sucks’

Fleet Foxes ‘Shore’

Julia Holter ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ OST

Sufjan Stevens ‘The Ascension’

Nicolas Jaar ‘Cenizas’

Pottery ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’

Jessie Ware ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’

Jung Jae II ‘Parasite’ OST

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist ‘Alfredo’

Doves ‘The Universal Want’

Brigid Mae Power ‘Head Above The Water’

Bab L’ Bluz ‘Nayda!’

James Yorkston ‘That Summer, We Flew’

Oklou ‘Galore’

Angel Olsen ‘Whole New Mess’

The Lemon Twigs ‘Songs For The General Public’

Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu ‘Renegade Breakdown’

Gupi ‘None’

Alexia Avina ‘Unearth’

John Bence ‘Love’

Colin Stetson ‘Color Out Of Space’ OST

King Krule ‘Man Alive!’

Against All Logic ‘2017-2019’

Willie J Healey ‘Twin Heavy’

Jam City ‘Pillowland’

MXLX ‘Maximum Amounts Of Extremely Fucking Yes (Vol.1)’

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THE TOP 80 ALBUMS OF 2020

80. Poppy ‘I Disagree’ 79. ThisisDA ‘Mud Hype’ 78. Fenne Lily ‘BREACH’ 77. Gorillaz ‘Song Machine’ 76. Soccer Mommy ‘Color Theory’ 75. 1995 Epilepsy ‘1995 Epilepsy’ 74. Jabu ‘Sweet Company’ 73. Actress ‘Karma & Desire’ + ‘88’ 72. Chloe x Halle ‘Ungodly Hour’ 71. Dirty Projectors ‘5EPs’

70. Beatrice Dillon ‘Walkaround’ 69. Matmos ‘The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form’ 68. Blanck Mass ‘Calm With Horses’ OST 67. Eartheater ‘Phoenix: flames Are Dew Upon My Skin’ 66. Sega Bodega ‘Salvador’ 65. Savage Mansion ‘Weird Country’ 64. Kelly Lee Owens ‘Inner Song’ 63. Daniel Blumberg ‘On&On’ 62. Clementine March ‘Le Continent’ 61. HAIM ‘Women In Music Pt.III’

60. Dua Lipa ‘Future Nostalgia’ 59. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ‘Viscerals’ 58. Darkstar ‘Civic Jams’ 57. Lil Uzi Vert ‘Eternal Atake’ 56. This Is The Kit ‘Off Off On’ 55. Shabazz Palaces ‘The Don Of Diamond Dreams’ 54. Princess Nokia ‘Everything Is Beautiful’ 53. The Orielles ‘Disco Volador’ 52. Oro Swimming Hour ‘Pteradactyl’ 51. MXLX ‘Serpent’

50. Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’

49. Jay Electronica ‘A Written Testimony’

48. Fiona Apple ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’

47. Galen Tipton ‘Ungoliant’

46. Knife Liibrary ‘MARKS: Songs For Those I Have Killed’

45. Deerhoof ‘Future Teenage Cave Artists’

44. Caribou ‘Suddenly’

43. Working Men’s Club ‘Working Men’s Club’

42. Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’

41. Field Music ‘Making A New World’

40. Cornershop ‘England Is A Garden’

39. Lambchop ‘Trip’

38. Katy J Pearson ‘Return’

37. Amaarae ‘The Angel You Don’t Know’

36. James Ferraro ‘Neurogeist’

35. Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’

34. Spectres ‘It’s Never Going To Happen And This Is Why’

33. Laura Marling ‘Song For Our Daughter’

32. Bill Callahan ‘Gold Record’

31. Bob Dylan ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’

30. A.G. Cook ‘7G’

29. Good Sad Happy Bad ‘Shades’

28. SAULT ‘Untitled (Black Is)’

27. Run The Jewels ‘RTJ4’

26. Clipping ‘Visions Of Bodies Being Burned’

25. Thundercat ‘It Is What It Is’

24. Pictish Trail ‘Thumb World’

23. Jessy Lanza ‘All The Time’

22. Yves Tumor ‘Heaven To A Tortured Mind’

21. Sorry ‘925’

20. Yaeji ‘What We Drew’

19. A.G. Cook ‘Apple’

18. Wesley Gonzalez ‘Appalling Human’

17. Pet Shimmers ‘Face Down In Meta’ & ‘Trash Earthers’

16. Arca ‘KiCK i’

15. 100 Gecs ‘1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues’

14. Tara Clerkin Trio ‘Tara Clerkin Trio’

13. Richard Dawson ‘Republic Of Geordieland’

12. Phoebe Bridgers ‘Punisher’

11. Perfume Genius ‘Set My Heart On Fire Immediately’

10. Charli XCX ‘How I’m Feeling Now’

9. Rina Sawayama ‘SAWAYAMA’

8. Dorian Electra ‘My Agenda’

7. Alabaster DePlume ‘To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol.1’

6. SAULT ‘Untitled (Rise)’

5. Tim Heidecker ‘Fear Of Death’

4. Moses Sumney ‘græ’

3. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Magic Oneohtrix Point Never’

2. Crack Cloud ‘Pain Olympics’

1. The Flaming Lips ‘American Head’

#list #Awards #2020 Awards

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todaysbiggesthits · 4 years

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Odds, Ends

JD’s 16-31

16. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death 17. Naeem - Startisha 18. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You 19. Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind 20. Draag - Clara Luz EP 21. Caribou - Suddenly 22. Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna 23. Animal Collective - Bridge To Quiet EP 24. The Clientele - It’s Art Dad 25. King Krule - Man Alive! 26. Kate NV - Room for the Moon 27. Real Estate - The Main Thing 28. Wire - 10:20 29. Osees - Protean Threat 30. Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal 31. (tie) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension, The Microphones - The Microphones in 2020

New to Code in 2020

All Hail the Silence - ‡ The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Anxiety Art Steve Moore - Brainstorm Lydia Loveless - Boy Crazy and Single(s)

Arden’s Top Hits of 2020

From the Desk of Bronco

What can you say about this year that hasn't already been said. What a shit year. I feel like I've mentally time travelled to this point from March 13th. Every day is basically the same. I look forward to the weekend when I can get some things done, and then I don't do them because of the other lame shit that needs to get done gets in the way. Laundry, cleaning the home/office/school, doing something meaningful with my family, Minecraft with the kids. Then coffee-o'clock immediately becomes beer-o'clock and wash, rinse, fuck all repeat. That's how music has felt this year too. I think since my commute has been removed, there's no real time for just listening. I listen to it while I work, then worry I'm not getting enough done. I use it to drown out the "school" shit that's happening in my living room in our tiny house. It's been a tool instead of a source of enjoyment. As a result, I mostly enjoyed ambient noise and/or instrumental records this year. I found a 3-hour youtube video of Tibetan monks chanting the same thing over and over to help me find some focus (it kinda works sometimes). I played the NIN albums over and over, back to back. I found a few other droning noise albums from other years that I put on to help me get some shit done. It's amazing how simple yet complex some of those albums can be. One of them is two songs, each about 15 minutes long. There's maybe four layers to it, but it's just sustained droning noise. Works wonders for when I need to drown out the family and get down to business. Otherwise, I felt like there were slim pickings this year. A few bands I like put some stuff out. None of it revolutionary. And the rest of the metal scene was brutal death metal or blackened death metal or deathened black metal. Not the stuff I'm particularly down for, and especially not in line with my brains need for ambient instrumental. I think, too, the lack of live music removed an integral part of my brain's musical experience. I think the draw of live music makes the in between personal listening times more meaningful to me, like a promise of "this is what you could see happen in real life when they come to town." I just hope that when we get through this hulk-sized-fist-fuck of a year, I can rip myself out of this cycle of stationaryism, find some shows to get to, and inject some long missing color back in to my life. Hopefully we can all get a piece of that back. Fuck you 2020.

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Fergwad’s Top 10 of 2020

1. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 2. The Strokes - The New Abnormal 3. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 4. Muzz - Muzz 5. Adrianne Lenker - songs 6. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately 7. Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open 8. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 9. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song 10. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

Tammy Rooney’s 10 o’ 20

1. Fleet Foxes – Shore 2. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud 3. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions 4. Rose City Band - Summerlong 5. The Killers – Imploding the Mirage 6. The Strokes – The New Abnormal 7. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher 8. My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall Pt II 9. Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter 10. (Live Music Slot) The War on Drugs - LIVE DRUGS; Hiss Golden Messenger - Forward Children; Holy Holy - My Own Pool of Light, lots of early 70s Dead shows, and Hendrix's Band of Gypsys at Fillmore East when the mood strikes.

Heaps’ Top Tin

1. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately 2. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 3. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind 4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 5. Lomelda - Hannah 6. Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death 7. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory 8. Run the Jewels - RTJ4 9. Destroyer - Have We Met 10. Adrianne Lenker - Songs

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Doesn’t Phoebe Bridgers look like Marnocha?

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get to know me tag~~

Nobody on this site loves me more than @13-scoups im just speaking teh factss. No but really thank you Steph!! This one’s basically the same get to me know tag game i did, so hopefully this won’t be too boring :)

Nickname: Cindy by my family members only. Ew, I get weirded out when friends or strangers try calling me that so just Cynthia is fine in case y’all don’t know

Gender: cis female, she/her

Zodiac: Sagittarius babey 🤪

Height: 5 feet and 3 quarters. Let me have my 3 quarters

Age: 19 (im 20 in a little less than 5 months and that’s just Not Real)

Time: 11:56 pm and im absolutely wired

Favorite bands/solo artists: oof a whole lot. BTS, Seventeen, Monsta X, Ateez, NCT, Twice, Red Velvet, Stray Kids, HyunA, and so many more i actively stan and so many more I casually listen to

Song stuck in my head: Heartbeat - BTS and Dream Glow - BTS. Because of fuckin BTS World, it’s just those two back and forth in a vicious cycle and my wittle brain hurts

Last movie I saw: oof i can’t even remember. In theaters? Probably Captain Marvel. And I think Terrifier on Netflix. Uhh interesting little gory number that one...

Last thing I googled: mystic messenger endings. Ok listen I’ve had this damn game for two years now and dammit im gonna get all the endings

Other blog: this is my one and only personal shithole corner

Do I get asks: from like my best friend every now and then taunting me. Trying to get me to fall for Monsta X’s Minhyuk. Like im gonna leave Mr. Yoo Kihyun 🙄

Why I chose my username: ok so snaku = snakes. cause i like snakes. chan = cause anime. Basically a shitty nickname my best friend gave me. She says she doesn’t even like think my real name her mind just instantly goes to snakuchan whenever she thinks of me and im gonna murder her

Following: 413. It’s actually a smaller number compared to 3 months ago hehe. Gotta unfollow all those inactive blogs

Average amount of sleep: 5-8 hours. I refuse to wake up past 8:00 am and if i get only 5 hours of sleep So Be It

Lucky number: 7 i guess

What am I wearing: very old pajamas I got these when I was 14 and they still fit. Like height wise they fit and Im Big Mad

Dream job: physician of some sorts. We’ll see what I’d like to specialize in in the future

Dream trip: anywhere outside of Florida like god pls

Favorite food: my mom’s ropa vieja which is like a shredded beef steak made in a stew

Favorite song: I guess right now it’s Aurora by Ateez. It really does change everyday tho

Hair color: reddish undertone light brown hair with blonde highlights. She’s an interesting color and depends on lighting

Eye color: light brown

Most iconic song: Honestly, Steph, I’m gonna have to agree. TVXQ’s Mirotic is a timeless bop never forget her

Languages you speak: Spanish and English. I’m in the process of learning Korean and boy oh boy is verb conjugation a bitch

Random fact: im gonna use this to gush about the albums I got today. I got Mingi for Treasure EP 1 and Wooyoung for both versions of EP 3 im :((( BIG UWUING. No but are we just gonna forget Pirate King era Kim Hongjoong? I mean...shit. I also got Seventeen’s Teen, Age White ver and why did I avoid ordering that for so longgggg I really want to complete my Seventeen collection so bad :^((

Describe yourself as an aesthetic: going out to dinner late at night, napping through a rainy day, the tingle of mint, fields of flowers, the view of the sunrise from an apartment window, gated houses

I always word vomit these posts so I hope you enjoy my ramblings at what’s currently 12:27 am. I’ll be tagging: @tatyneedshalp @noir-deserves-better @hingmao @pinkladygriffon @beomgyutie @kinosangel @yeeunsus. Some of you, I’ve been mutuals with for a while or a short while and I’d love to get to know you better :)) Also some are my followers but I still see you and want to know Whats Up :))

BUT OF COURSE YOU DONT HAVE TO IF YOU DONT WANT TO. I’m a shy fuck and just tagging all these new people has my heart racing so pls if you dont want me to bother you in these sorts of things, just send me a message!!

#im not sleepy one bit huh #if there's any typos i'll fucking die #dont let this flop #im kidding but im really anxious euuuuuueu #im on desktop so formatting might be fucked but ok #also tati u better be asleep bitch #tag game #personal

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There were hardly any blockbuster albums in 2018, but there definitely was no shortage of great albums either. For that reason, the year in music was better off for it. Similar to how this year's 30 Best Songs came from an open field where newer artists breaking through the underground could take a seat at the same table as innovative veterans and modern pop royalty alike, the 30 Best Albums of 2018 tells a similar story of a past not showing any signs of being beyond its prime, and a very promising future as to what its rookie artists might create one day when they're no longer the buzzworthy genre outsiders, punks, dance makers, and indie rockers the scene's radar. And speaking of the latter, it looks like many of this decade's earliest risers have proven themselves as worthy of the hype through greater substance and hitting their own strides. Less obvious, however, was that 2018 was a banister year for a new wave of hardcore band that continue to challenge the status quo beyond every circle of sound imaginable. If you've been waiting for the real thing, this year's top honors delivered it to you. 2019 has a lot to live up, because if it's half as interesting as the 30 Best Albums of 2018, we'll still be very lucky as listeners.

30. Hovvdy - Cranberry [Double Double Whammy]

With their graduation to Double Double Whammy for its sophomore effort Cranberry, Hovvdy have removed much of the digital tape deck hiss from their debut to make memories even more vivid when being stored inside their songs. And yet, Cranberry is still as soft a listen in a lovely way as its predecessor was despite its sharper clarity, which leads one to believe that the duo of Will Taylor and Charlie Martin are more focused on the way the listening experience captures a feeling rather than seeks out a way to recreate it. The songs’ tempos oft slowly trot through crisp strums and repetitive drum steps, occasionally fluttered in the warm hum of Casiotones (courtesy of fellow Austin DIY scene peer Hannah Read of Lomelda), but in defining their shapes in bolder lines with proper pop construction, Taylor’s plainspoken singing have a bigger space on the canvas to paint broad-stroked stories onto and allow the details – as muted as they are – to sink in full.

29. House of Feelings - New Lows [Joyful Noise Recordings]

What started as a radio show and dance night spinning some of the most esoteric sounds in dance and electronic vibes is now a living, breathing music collective of creatives from all corners of the underground built on an unbreakable foundation known as House of Feelings. On the NYC troupe’s debut full-length New Lows, multi-faceted songwriter Matty Fasano, YVETTE drummer and producer Dale Eisinger, songwriter Joe Fassler, and a cast of HoF collaborators familiar and new including Perfect Pussy’s Meredith Graves, Shamir, Denitia, and EULA’s Alyse Lamb, the group steps back into the darkest time line of our present reality after tripping out in an ambient post-apocalyptic freak out with last year’s club banger Last Chance EP. The pathways through which they travel are still treacherous as ever, but with blood-soaked shoes, sweaty bass lines, brass spirits, and synthetic doppelgangers for human emotion, they’re able to create a chic antidote for corrupt modern connections.

28. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of [Warp Records]

Oneohtrix Point Never breaks free of self-imposed insularity through collaboration and his own version of mass pop deconstruction to create “nightmare ballads” on Age Of. It is – along with the performance art installation that accompanies it – simultaneously Daniel Lopatin’s most ambitiously detailed, yet cohesively-defined auditory experiences since breaking through in 2010 with the melodic MIDI warping of Returnal, as it reconvenes into a pattern of brain teasing pleasure that had until now, been marked for deletion in his virtual garden. Dismantling pop cliches into a morbid art form has always been Oneohtrix Point Never’s M.O., but never has Lopatin challenged them so heavily as he has on Age Of by putting what’s obvious in front of listeners, then ripping off its outer layers of gloss to reveal what makes them work. Whenever these songs feel as though they are encroaching upon a natural climax, OPNs pulls the hook away from our ears, as if to tantalize our reward ever so softly while testing the natural habits of our cerebral mechanics no doubt shaped by larger machines in the process. Now, that’s a scary thought...

27. Ava Luna - Moon 2 [Western Vinyl]

Moon 2 is the perfect title for where Ava Luna are today as artists. It’s their new phase – One in which the NYC art pop band shed the skin of the term “collective,“ and instead join tentacles to become a fully collaborative species as varied as their backgrounds are. That LP 5 is their most streamlined effort to date may come as an even bigger surprise given the latter detail, as each member of the five-piece has spent the interim since 2015′s Infinite House expressing themselves mostly on their own. It could be, however, that in learning to stand on their own feet and flexing these creative muscles that Ava Luna has become stronger as a unit, as stylistic cohesion is threaded through the album from the moment it creaks into infinite space. Gravity-free vocals and ambient waves glide through Felicia Douglass’ hushed breaths and silk-covered runs, Becca Kaufmann bumps energy into the alien disco, while guitarist Carlos Hernandez’ and the band’s rhythm of Julian Fader and Ethan Bassford maintain its physically kinetic geometry. In this phase, there’s no one who can do it all with the fashion and finesse like they do.

26. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar [Deathwish Inc.]

Maybe more exciting than the arrival of their breakout Burnt Sugar is that Gouge Away are really only getting started. At its core level is vocalist Christina Michelle who lives and breathes her every word, be it gnarling in daily anxiety and frustrations with hope, or controlling the chaos with a sung seance. Since their debut ,Dies, she and her bandmates have evolved into a more intentional force with in their use of emotional intensity as Mick Ford’s guitars remain razor-sharp when need be, but conceal themselves in a softer casing that rolls down your spine before tearing into your skin. Burnt Sugar also gets some of its charred flavoring by pillaging the grime and grunge of ‘90s post-hardcore and noise influence, as Tyler Forsythe’s bass lines dent and wobbly through tension without resistance as Tommy Cantwell’s drums find a gnarled groove between the dark crevices they leave in their quake. Its brimming with so much possibility as to where they can go tomorrow, but for now, leaves a lasting bittersweet taste in your mouth.

25. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog [Saddle Creek]

Bark Your Head Off, Dog finds Hop Along mastering the art of embellishing rock with finer detail. While it may require additional lengths to let it sink in, it’s definitively the Philly band’s most ambitious effort to succeed on all fronts.Their latest sonic evolution continues to bristle with rawness, yet hooks are deeply entwined in intricate chord progressions while Frances Quinlan’s storytelling has become a thing on the scale of an American classic in literature as she continues to observe the mundane of everyday living with deep existential analysis. The quartet’s overall sound reflects that need to uphold that imagery with compositions just as tangled in the ornate, and demanding greater patience on the part of the listener to hear exactly where knotted guitars untie themselves and fray into choruses, or where elastic, funky footwork begins to effortless flow with ease into melody. Bark Your Head Off, Dog is not just something to behold because of its creative maturation, but a fun practice in dissecting and digesting music (and subsequently, the world around us) that rewards the experience with resonating tunefulness hidden in between.

24. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love [ANTI-]

Deafheaven’s fourth studio effort Ordinary Corrupt Human Love shares many of the same organs and bone structures as its ancestors, but it’s a different animal altogether. It’s Deafheaven putting every one of the eccentricities they have nourished in their sound out there from the start into the wilderness, free to roam and form an album that embodies the humanity within their metal machine. Piano interludes, dreamy soundscapes indebted to slocore and indie rock traditionalism alongside guest vocal apparitions both weave even further layers to an an already ornate tapestry of scorched earth black metal and post rock, if maybe adding a touch of fragility to Clarke’s core existentialism. He ruminates plaintive thoughts on nature, aging, and empathy with a poetic grandeur that makes no apologies for being transparently earnest. That earnestness in all facets is what differentiates Ordinary Corrupt Human Love from any other Deafheaven album, or any other album that seers together a heavy heart and inner peace for that matter.

23. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer [Epic Music / Sony Records / Wonderland Arts Society]

Dirty Computer bares the familiar signatures of Janelle Monáe’s past work – a rollout full bonkers visuals overlaying forward-thinking production that sets synthetic futurisms on an asteroid collision with the funky torchbearing of the Purple One’s legacy – yet it doubles down on radio-equipped hooks and choruses grounded like no other effort she’s set forth. There’s a full reveal of the political being personal in that aspect, as the album celebrates Monáe’s “PYNK”-themed coming out party as a pansexual woman of color, redefining the “Crazy, Classic, Life” of the modern American dream in the process. Her freedom roar, be it sung with sex and smoothness as she exudes in album bangers ”Make Me Feel” and “Screwed” or rapped with sharpened poise on ”Django Jane” is limitless is strength. Monáe’s star power dwarfs even the legends of tomorrow accompanying her journey back to Earth, be it Brian Wilson’s cosmic harmonies on its title track, or the electric empower-ade made with Pharrell Williams on “I Got the Juice”. Now that she’s graced us within arm’s length, it’s time we start recognizing a world where everything revolves around Janelle Monáe’s universal message to be just as you are.

22. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships [Dirty Hit / Interscope Records]

On their third LP A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, it’s here where millennial melody makers the 1975 come into their own with their most actualized commentary on modern connection and pop music. Frontperson Matty Healy’s guides the dialogue through astute observations as a voyeur as well as his own ugly overshares for public consumption The album especially glorifies the latter in its arrangement. Like the dopamine rushes and exhaustion of life’s sudden highs and unexpected lows, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is pieced together in an unpredictable path of emotions in mind as it plays out. The listen combs through a post-Burial static plane, Auto-tuned trap pop, power ballad bombast, and even pulling off some oddity moments of loungey jazz. There’s a lot to not like about how our world is revolving, with the only optimism echoed here is the acknowledgement that we’re suffering through the darkest timeline together. For a generation whose attention’s spans are at peak deficit, hashtaggable plugs and genre-hopping get that message across through production-perfect content baiting reach.

21. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth [Young Turks]

The year’s biggest adventure through the sonic cosmos comes by way of Kamasi Washington who takes you further out than you expected with Heaven and Earth, his latest grandeur display of avant jazz adventures composed with the special powers of the video game superheroes he invokes when aligning big brass purists and less discriminatory crossover crowd on the same universal plane. The double LP featuring 16 tracks average in 10 minutes in length each may as well be a quadruple one by today’s standards, though it also finds the Los Angeles saxophonist and his band in top form with cohesively connecting the dots in his experimentally sound genre reconstructions that encompasses free wheeling eruptions and percussive winks into the realms of rock, soul, and R&B. Heaven and Earth mediates his world of the weird and technically proficient with out current pop climate changes, and there’s more than enough sonic sight seeing in this journey to keep your senses in awe.

20. Iceage - Beyondless [Matador Records]

What began as an exorcise in violence, nihilism, and anxiety personified in the least suspecting of scenes within Denmark’s desolate DIY basements has evolved into a meticulous exercise in punk polyglot experimentation on Beyondless. Here, Iceage weaponize gothic purveyance to subdue their louder abrasions, but not necessarily their ability to confront the dark with any softer hesitation for a grander stage. The Danish quartet’s fourth studio effort is a new peak culmination in their insatiable desire to further themselves well beyond the limits previously drawn in their musical sculpture. The way they brandish danger and bleak existentialism in tandem with their bootsy grit is sexed up for pomp and glam through its incorporation of strong brass winds and cantankerous jazzy fits. Elias Rønnenfelt has written himself a charismatic stage persona to match – Consumed by the theatrics of a rock god and the Devil himself at once. Their unholy ritual has been completed and satisfies all heathens.

19. Tomberlin - At Weddings [Saddle Creek]

Sarah Beth Tomberlin was born to a strict Baptist household where her father was a minister, and she honed her craft as a songwriter through praise hymnals sung at Sunday sermons. She wasn’t allowed to discover a musical world outside of that sphere until she began secretly sneaking Bright Eyes CDs into her possession during her formative years. At Weddings, her debut full-length, is her way of forging her own path in a post-theist world that gives her – as she puts it on its opener “Any Other Way” – a sudden feeling that she doesn’t “have a place.” There’s more to her story than just existential queries hollowed out in a negative space where her voice, rendered in a delicate, yet devastatingly beautiful coat of reverb, echoes out as vast as the Midwestern fields she was raised. While At Weddings doesn’t conclude with her finding that place in the world she can finally rest comfort in, the ellipses it leaves listeners with is awe-striking in the way it makes you wonder right alongside Tomberlin where her path will lead her in the end.

18. Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse [Carpark Records]

Ever since they arrived on the scene as fresh-faced college grads of the school of indie rock with their 2013 debut full-length Major Arcana, the combination of singer Sadie Dupuis’ particular prose and she and her Speedy Ortiz bandmates’ higher level learning of idiosyncratic songwriting has been the thing that has made them stand out in a pack in the scene’s new wave of artists heavily influenced by the thinking person’s underground. With 2015′s Foil Deer, they proved that they had not only studied up on every book inside the indie rock laureates' libraries, and knew how to put that knowledge to proper use in writing their own chapters within it for today’s impressionable minds, but their latest effort Twerp Verse is a selfless endeavor devoid of needing to prove anything to anyone. Instead, it’s the quartet’s most outspoken commentary on modern day righteousness made all the more digestible with some new tricks from Dupuis’ second degree in spooky pop experimentation gained during a semester abroad under her sad13 guise. Speedy cram a lot to chew on here about common decency, but rest assured, these are choruses that will stick to your brain as much as the corrective lessons for a better society do, too.

17. Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want [Ipecac Recordings]

Before going on indefinite hiatus in 2010, Daughters helped carve out a particular sound that stylized post- and grindcore scenes in the mid-2000s. Elastic guitars, intense drumming fits, and a frontperson in Alexis S.F. Marshall who sounded like an unhinged cog thrown in the machine whose job was to cause malfunctions at every turn was their modus operandi. Through sealed rifts, Daughters have since reunited with its most recent incarnation of Marshall, founding drummer Jon Syverson, rhythm guitarist Nicholas Andrew Sadler and Samuel M. Walker on bass, yet they're not the same band we heard on their return effort You Won’t Get What You Want. The Providence quartet’s fourth studio effort makes a concentrated effort in reshaping the outlines of their hardened history in an industrial fusion of human parts and robot arms melding into one alongside sea-sawing droning, smoldering blues, and gothic epics. Just as Daughters’ past indefinite hiatus status made no promises, You Won’t Get What You Want feels like they’ve entering a new phase where the unease in uncertainty fuels the thrill ride to defy any expectation/

16. Wild Pink - Yolk In the Fur [Tiny Engines]

Despite having cut their teeth in the Brooklyn indie scene these last several years, Wild Pink don’t sound so much like your standard guitar-chugging city dwellers on their breakout sophomore effort Yolk In the Fur. The trio of John Ross, TC Brownell and Dan Keegan have grown beyond the concrete jungle and ventured into an equally captivating impression here of ‘80s synth-bleeding, Americana-influenced rock that has made storytelling sentiment glimmer like a borealis in the way it has for the album’s kindred spirit Tom Petty and more recently, the modern day journeys of the War On Drugs. Yolk In the Fur has its own handwriting to share, however, with Ross emoting existential philosophies while gazing through the monotony of the every day and millennial melancholia. It’s there where Wild Pink transcend beyond subways and human-saturated streets and into the vast fields, rivers and star-lit skies -- Their own version of escapism becoming contagious.

15. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends [Run for Cover Records]

Speaking to Camp Cope’s How to Socialise & Make Friends is a daunting task, especially from this end seeing that any cisgender straight male isn’t the most qualified to do the kind of heavy lifting these Melbourne indie rockers’ do here on their sophomore effort. The listen protests and shouts just as much as it lets out heavy sighs as singer Georgia Maq airs her grievances, be it via acid tongue or a higher road empathy. Her targets include gendered double-standards and an exhaustion with cultured misogyny in every facet of her daily life. She sings from both the unjust experiences as the frontperson of an all-women band within a male-dominated punk scene and as a humanist, with dudes behaving badly toward both in and out of those circles. The sound Camp Cope wage war with words with burns with an anti-authoritarian DIY spirit and emotive frustration equivocally, as Maq’s unfurling guitars over Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich and Sarah Thompson’s steady rhythm clear a path for her to break the patriarchy, if even by throwing just a single stone into every glass ceiling at a time.

14. Snail Mail - Lush [Matador Records]

Lindsey Jordan knows the roller coaster emotions of being young better than most indie rock songwriters out there right now, perhaps because she’s still figuring out a way to deal with them. With her debut album Lush, the 19-year-old’s creative outlet Snail Mail invites the entire world into the thick of her Tiny Little Corner of Anywhere where the doldrums of suburban living collide with teenage romance and its ensuing anguish in a manner where even a minor happening in heartache is enough substance to soundtrack a turning point in the coming-of-age experience. How she does so is through a stronghold in sharp earnestness wise beyond her years with lyrical specificity wrapped up in slowburning melancholic hooks that might otherwise suggest what ‘90s indie rock might have sounded like had it been put to her eloquent pen in the present. Yet, Lush is through and through about living in the moment, growing pains and all, and Snail Mail is in no hurry to shake the ride.

13. Vince Staples - FM! [Def Jam]

FM! -- an 11 track, 23-minute-long project from Vince Staples -- extends the Long Beach M.C.’s streak of success through an endless summer party meant for momentary escapism. The listen is no different than tuning into the long-running Los Angeles hip-hop station 92.3 and its show, Big Boy’s Neighborhood, that serves to bind together Staples’ latest duality of disenfranchised disparity against fame and prosperity over a series of intros, skits, interludes and, to greater effect, a group of Cali-minded guest features that would fit in effortlessly next to the radio fodder Staples’ cult rap skills usually sit on the outside of. It’s a current snapshot of the Vince Staples of today without forgetting where he came from, and he gets a few hits in that way by dropping ugly realities into an otherwise mostly white Coachella crowd-pleasing playlist where tough-as-nails honesty and ear-softening commercial pleasure find a middle ground. FM!’s fun from the outside looking in, yet a complex commentary when you stick your head in closer, and nothing less than we’ve come to expect from rap’s best thinkers.

12. Vein - errorzone [Closed Casket Activities)

The Greater Boston legacy of heavy has long been a place where hardcore and metal collide with an awesome vigor, and that lineage continues to expand beyond the Baystate today with Vein, a group of Merrimack Valley thrashers who are amplifying the intensity of the scene’s groundbreakers in the likes of Cave In, Converge and American Nightmare, and bare down the void with their own young nihilistic bulldozing. Their debut full-length errorzone uses the framework laid before them and fuses its pieces into a sound of apocalyptic proportions where human adrenaline and natural forces smolder into the quintet’s firestorm to form a death-wielding vehicle. The end result tears shit apart in every which way. Lead screamer Anthony DiDio is a wrecking ball on his own two feet, but backed by Vein’s seismic riffs and stone pummeling rhythmic core, errorzone is unapologetically harsh in seeing that everything burns to the ground. Taking into account the current state of the world, that might just be what this place needs.

11. Beach House - 7 [Sub Pop]

With 7, Beach House’s singular sound has settled on a narrative that has no concrete objective in sight, but rather, an unharnessed exploration into the unknown of what possibilities may manifest. That it’s their most curiously daring listen in a career that’s already been defined by surprises is a fete most veteran indie rock acts these days should be envious to achieve themselves, and for that, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally can thank their lucky intuition for guiding their spirit in a directionless path. 7′s specific magical power is their ability to transform that darkness into an unsuspecting beauty, as the album oft confronts such instances fit for these tumultuous times by embracing the ability for empathy and love to grow out of that trauma, capturing the free-fall from resistance into giving in with a lightness. Explorations with psychedelic hues and cosmic lights in their smoldering, vapory dream-pop soothe even the bleakest questions that float through the timeline of an otherwise frightening reality. Beach House, in their present formless existence, endure in its brave embrace of it.

10. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs [Tan Cressida / Columbia Records]

Aside from being a grade A wordsmith, Earl Sweatshirt stands out among other rappers from the younger era thanks to his ability to connect with audiences by talking to real life context in ways that never look like fashion statements or image crafting. It’s neither a Drake-ism or an emo rap algorithm ploy -- It’s honest, ugly reality checks that have gone toe to toe with anxiety, depression and death talk without glamorizing any of them as a welcome lifestyle. Last we’d heard from him were the incisive cuts levied through weed clouds and paranoia on 2015′s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, yet, like many of his Odd Future alumni, Earl has grown out of his tumultuous teens, and with Some Rap Songs, the 24-year-old cult hero is beginning to piece together life’s puzzles clearly -- at least through prose. Throughout the listen, his rap style transcends any comparison to what his peers are creating as he delves into an abstract collage of background noise made of layered beats, samples of voices from the outside, and a control over his own as a hookless wonder. With the smoke clearing from the room, it turns out that the avant direction fits Earl Sweatshirt perfectly.

9. Robyn - Honey [Konichiwa Records]

In the 8 year absence releasing her ultimate legacy-cementing effort Body Talk, Robyn’s footprint on the pop universe has become permanently entangled in the DNA of its modern current. Now that she’s made her return on her sixth full-length effort Honey, however, we’re not just given everything we could hope for in a Robyn album – But something from a different creative pop genius than the one we last danced our worries away with. Experiences with grief and loss have changed the shape of the way she breaks our hearts and teaches us how to put them back together this time around, as Honey brings different facets of light into her singular sound to separate itself from similar flavors. Bright, shimmering whirls of synths and soft caresses sweep up a familiar warmth as any other Robyn endorphin rush, but glamorous house parties, funked up bass lines and breezy lite R&B turn the corner toward a different perspective in the healing process. Though we never truly know what pains life may bring our way, Robyn reminds us that there’s always a way back to the sweet stuff with Honey.

8. Pusha-T - DAYTONA [Def Jam / G.O.O.D. Music]

Stretches of ominous silence in between releases have worked to Pusha-T’s advantage in massaging his work into a hard craft. Ever since his 2013 debut My Name Is My Name and 2015′s followup King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude, the pursuit of perfection has equated to him needing to waste less time to get people talking about what he’s saying. His X-acto knife precision consistently coupled with an ultra modern beat design never ceases to cut right where it needs to, and with his latest album DAYTONA, we get 7 tracks in just a little over 20 minutes where the Delaware son savors his words for deep impact. What’s left in its wake is a proper torching of the entire hip-hop landscape with his long shadow and knife-like flow that gave 2018 one of the year’s most talked about rap beefs. Darker moments surrounding loss of friends and the double-edged sword of fame swallow the soul whole into itself as well, and in aligning himself with Kanye West’s post-Pablo production (basically, the only good thing ‘Ye gave music this year...), the reign of King Push remains unrivaled.

7. Soccer Mommy - Clean [Fat Possum Records]

The opening moments from Soccer Mommy breakout Clean don’t idealize romantic expectations, so don’t get your hopes up that the rest of the album is going to find its way to some kind of happy ending either. Clean is the result of an ongoing bedroom-born lullaby inward that had been slowly forming the outlines of Sophie Allison’s persona over the years, with her debut full-length transforming early broad brush strokes into more detailed ones through a rickety walk of structurally-sound acoustic strums, hints of twinklecore in her alternative slow burn, and a healthy measure of studio trickery that puts a stamp with Allison’s name all over her confessionals. There’s an intense relatability to her storytelling as well as her underdog status of being on the losing end of relationships that makes her work resonate deep within the every-person, and they’re all necessary, too. Unlike all of the girls who she isn’t we meet here on Clean, owning up to her differences is what makes Allison sound realer than the rest.

6. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy [Atlantic Records]

Social media-assisted personal brands may seemingly grow overnight these days, but one thing that won’t ever change is how they’re only a piece of the puzzle – if at all – in guaranteeing a successful rap career. If you were expecting Cardi B’s debut album Invasion of Privacy to change any rules of the game, it doesn’t over-promise in that regard, but it’s still an assured first step that includes Cardi delivering on her end of the it with a solid performance of real life character work backed by a roundtable of reliable modern production crafted by the likes of Boi-1da, Murda Beatz and Benny Blanco. It’s an early indication that proves she knows herself better than most others have in this position when it came to making money moves with natural instinct, and it’s perhaps the biggest reason why Cardi B managed to parlay her hustle from behind a smart phone into a #1 dream come true while her detractors keep bloating streaming algorithms in hopes of guaranteeing themselves a cheap hit.

5. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour [Mercury Nashville]

With Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves continues to be just as brave enough to color outside the lines of country with her honesty as she does in the palette she paints with as well. Disco-inflicted pop crossovers, cosmic countrypolitan, psychedelic steel pedaling, a refracted spectrum of ‘70s style classic rock piano balladry worthy of Elton’s rhinestoned co-sign, and in between everything, Golden Hour shining with that simple purity of fully lucid designs Musgraves has always brought to the table in dripping honey-combed acoustics into melancholia and pop that bring even a basic approach to songwriting into widescreen view. The album amounts to something akin to an actual rainbow for that matter – All colors vivid and unique in their own way, but when they collect together, they suggest something much more, be it in its wonders of life, love, and enjoying every second of it in the present with your senses filled with them.

4. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This [Run for Cover Records]

At the end of 2017, Sam Ray ditched the Teen Suicide moniker in favor of something more empathetic and conscious by redubbing his punk band American Pleasure Club. After years of making music inspired by depressive fits, substance abuse, and an aggressively nihilistic world view, he’s realigned his sound as well thanks to sobriety and finding domestic bliss with fellow musician Kitty Ray. With that, the band’s third proper album A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This is where Sam Ray has adulted beyond the bitter teenage malaise of his past while giving his loyalty of listeners every reason to continue working toward defining happiness in their own messy lives. That’s mirrored in a juxtaposition of vibes throughout the listen, varied in mood and style as vast as bedroom pop melancholia, pop-punk jitters, wallowing alternative waves, and hazy R&B that circle back to a big picture of coherency. Its a soundscape Ray has tinkered with tirelessly since the project’s inception, and has now found a fulfilling sweet spot in American Pleasure Club’s sound thanks to acknowledgement the reality of a love in a world that will never truly be a personal heaven nor hell.

3. Mitski - Be the Cowboy [Dead Oceans]

Mitski’s fifth album Be the Cowboy is brimming with ideas in brevity, yet it never falls short of articulating them with considered judgement that proves Mitski Miyawaki is in full control of her directive wheel. To give of herself even the slightest glimpse into the 27-year-old songwriter’s psyche through song is her gift to the Earth, with her pen blurring a universal connection between the personal and creation by mining its many striations of disconnect. Her other half on the surface level is often framed like a lover, though she’s hinted that sometimes the relationships that break her heart the most are those not reciprocated in her commitment to her work. Be the Cowboy finds her acting out every role in the story inseparably through the bombast of indie rockisms,an incorporation of songwriting worlds both traditional and modern that render new benchmarks of perfection for her timeless prose and even disco-pop, making it all the more difficult to decipher, yet that’s the point: They’re all designed as self-reflections given equal moments to be honored in her dark and light.

2. Low - Double Negative [Sub Pop]

Slowcore innovators Low have evolved far beyond the patient wonder of their music in several different styles over their storied 25-year career as a band, but nothing in their catalog is anything like their latest studio effort, Double Negative. The listen answers the question of what may exist of the Duluth trio if you were to destroy in their sound all the natural beauty that has endured gracefully these last three decades, and attempts to reconstruct it by fragment, particle by particle. That’s done intentionally, as the band holds a shattered mirror up to the world and reflects it onto themselves, as LP 12 embraces their most abrasive traits fearlessly through deconstructed and corruptly digitized instrumentation sucked into the vacuous production of. B.J. Burton, go-to producer at Bon Iver’s April Base home studio. The uncertainty in Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker vocals, while remaining tender all the way through, surface anxieties felt by many humans amid the disarray. We don’t know what tomorrow brings, though Double Negative captures the present in all its brokenness flawlessly.

1. Turnstile - Time & Space [Roadrunner Records]

Pull the 25-minute-long sprint that is Turnstile’s major label debut Time & Space apart by its guts, and you’ll hear that it’s so many other things than just a record that is guaranteed to insight a lot of free-falling bodies flying off stages wherever they take this record live. Even as a screamer, Brendan Yates is rather Svengali in his anti-et. al resistance, feeding his existential crisis into grungy despair and plunging down that rabbit hole lined in hybridized metal. Guitarists Brady Ebert and Pat McCrory alongside bassist Franz Lyon and drummer Daniel Fang are integral to controlling the listen between a slam dance and a hardcore meditation, meeting every signature call to the pit with a far out reverberation such as “Moon”, a lush, hazy pop-punker of a track. If there’s a single takeaway from Turnstile’s proper introduction beyond the DIY spaces they came through, it’s that the Baltimore quintet are prepared to take risks to reshape hardcore as something more than just punk’s harder edge of sound. It’s one continuous nonstop feeling, and one that’s bringing the whole scene into an entirely different level of being.

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Colorful Corner went live today and I'm here to share what's coming in May!!

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Now!!! Onto May :D

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Do ALL the questions!!!! 😇

1. describe yourself.I hate to doing this because every time I have job interview they ask me pretty much the same :/ So yea, I’m not gonna do that sorry :c

2. if you could go anywhere for a week all expenses paid where would it be?Bavarian Alpes

3. do you have siblings?Yep, 7 years older sister

4. what is your favorite constellation, why?I don’t think I have one

5. favorite color.Black, red, green, purple

6. what kind of music do you listen to?Metal, classic rock, industrial, neo-folk, 80s pop, darkwave

7. favorite flower. (you can name as many as you want cause flowers are awesome)Tulip, forget-me-not

8. if you could do magic, what is the first spell you would learn?Hmmm, first spell, probably the spell that would help me to learn all languages that I wanna learn

9. favorite childhood memory.Countless trips all around my hometown with my grandma

10. have you ever been cheated on?Yep

11. if you could describe your perfect room, what would it be?Lots of posters on the walls, guitar in a corner, comfy bed, lots of CDs on the table. Idk, this sucks sorry

12. favorite animal.Wolves, big cats, horses

13. what was the last photo you took of?

14. do you believe in soul mates?Yep

15. do you hang toilet paper over or under?Over

16. your go to place to eat & your favorite thing to get there.Express pizza. Always ordering the spiciest pizza they have

17. do you believe everything happens for a reason?Kinda. Some things indeed happen for reason

18. guilty pressures?Idk if I even have them

19. favorite mythical creature, why?Dragons, because they are so damn awesome and powerful

20. something most people don’t know about you.People on tumblr probably know everything about me at this point lol. Idk, I guess some people don’t really know that 8 years ago I became a metalhead, but I discovered my first metal band 11 years ago

21. where did you grow up, what was it like?I grew up in the second biggest city in Lithuania - Kaunas. Idk, I barely remember things from my childhood

22. do you believe aliens exist?Ayye

23. what was your last google search? “phantom of the opera“

24. what did your last relationship teach you?Perfect relationships exist. Also long distance relationships suck ass

25. would you relocate for love?It would depend, but I guess yea

26. do you hold grudges or forgive easy?It depends what that person has done to me

27. favorite book.LoTR trilogy and tbh every J.R.R. book, It by S. King, The name of the Rose byU. Eco and many more

28. do you consider yourself an extrovert or introvert?Extrovert with some introvert traits

29. have you ever kept a journal, do you now?I have kept it when I was a teen, now I only have travel journal

30. top 5 favorite movies.LoTR/The Hobbit trilogyAtomic BlondeKill BillAs above so belowInterstellar

31. do you believe that everything happens for a reason?same question and same answer

32. what is your greatest fear?Spiders

33. favorite alcoholic beverage.Wine, beer, mead, whiskey

34. most embarrassing thing you’ve done.Wrote all those really creepy thirst tweets about Rammstein back when i had obsession over them

35. do you believe in ghosts?Yep

36. what is the best and worst part of your personality?Best - I’m out-going and I’m always ready to helpWorst - I can be really stubborn

37. should you split the dinner bill?Idk, should you?

38. are you a good liar?I guess yea

39. what keeps you up at night?My mind and my love for night

40. would you rather go without your phone or music?Phone

41. do you believe in god?I believe in gods

42. how do you relax when frustrated?Well, it depends on how I’m frustrated, but I usually listen to music or watch some vids on youtube

43. what’s something that offends you?Sexism

44. favorite foodPasta!

45. if you were on a 10 hour flight and could sit and talk to any person the entire time, who would it be?I wanted to write a very specific person, but let’s leave that person for another time. I think it would be Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish

46. when do you feel the most confident?When I’m with my favorite outfit, or when my makeup is cool, or when my mind let’s me feel confident, or when I’m wearing something sexy

47. what do you do on your free time?Listen to music, watching films/tv series, tumblr, sleeping, fangirling, going to concerts/fllm festivals, traveling, photography, being with friends, being in nauture

48. is there anyone who has completely lost your respectYep

49. have you ever broken someone’s heart?Yep, unfortunately

50. did/do you play sports in school?I used to play sports in elementary school

51. when are you happiest?When I’m traveling or in a concert, or being with friends, or doing something creative, or being in nature

52. coffee or tea?Tea

53. what is one possession you own you wouldn’t want to live without?My camera (and my copy of Moonglow artbook)

54. what is the first thing you notice about a person?Their eyes, sometimes their hands

55. what is your favorite season, why?Autumn and winter. It’s just perfect weather and it makes me feel alive

56. what makes you laugh?Idk how to even answer this lol Good jokes, stupid/adorable things

57. are you a clean or messy person?Messy

58. what is important for a successful relationship?Trust, loyalty, being open and honest

59. what was your upcoming like?I don’t really understand the question tbh

60. favorite holiday?Christmas probably

61. what is the first thing you’d do if you won the lottery?Buy all the stuff I need

62. what’s the best pizza topping combination?Anything, as long as it is spicy

63. favorite outdoor activity.Going around the city or being in nature

64. how are you? honestly.I dunno, kinda good but kinda bad

65. would you rather go camping in the woods or stay at a beach resort?Camping in the woods of course

66. what is the most beautiful thing in nature?EVERYTHING!

67. favorite type of candy?Chocolate lol

68. if your life was a book, what would be the title?“I need to read what the shit is this” - or smth stupid I said once lol

69. what movie quotes do you use of a regular bases?I barely use them tbh, tho I do use “precious” a lot

70. what was cool when you were young but not cool now?Being emo

71. what’s the craziest conversation you have ever eves dropped on?I honestly can’t remember

72. what’s the most interesting documentary you’ve ever watched?Metal evolution

73. what’s the worst hairstyle you’ve had?I suck at describing things but nooo, i’m not gonna post a picture even tho I think I have few, but let’s say it was pretty bad

74. what do you like to cook?Pasta or basically anything that I can or want at that moment

75. what’s the coolest animal you’ve seen in the wild?Moose

76. what’s the funniest tv show you’ve ever seen?The Simpsons I guess

77. do you usually follow your heart or your head?Heart

78. what is your favorite quote? “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.” - Good omens

79. what’s the weirdest crush you have ever had?Idk, I don’t think I had any really weird crushes

80. what’s your love language?I actually went and did a test about this and so my love language is physical touch. I actually agree on this

81. do you ever feel alone?Almost always

82. ever been bullied?Yep

83. are you usually early or late?Sometimes bit early sometimes late

84. what kind of art do you enjoy most?Books, films, music, photography

85. what do you wish you knew more about?I wish I’d know more about filmmaking, photography

Thank you!!!! And sorry that my answers suck ass..

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It’s your favorite Answer All Anon again!!!!! Answer all the Unusual Asks PLZZZ?

hey AAA :) glad to see you back on my page. hope you like these answers. sorry it’s late, yet again. ✦ nova

1. spotify, soundcloud, or pandora? soundcloud. every. single. time.

2. is your room messy or clean? a little bit of both. one corner of my room is just a mountain of clothing, but my bed and closet are super neat.

3. what color are your eyes? brown, like chocolate.

4. do you like your name? why? no. and i ellect to not have my name on here, that’s why i have an alias of “nova”

5. what is your relationship status? single. i cried in the car on my way home from work for that exact reason last night. i kept thinking, “will i ever be good enough for someone to love me?”

6. describe your personality in 3 words or less. humorous, depressed, intro/extrovert

7. what color hair do you have? it used to be all sorts of colors, different every month. but, i went corporate and dyed it back to my original color.

8. what kind of car do you drive? color? black 2017 toyota corolla. used to have a matte black 4-door jeep wrangler, but my mother took it away from me for the terms of “responsibility” and “immature nature”

9. where do you shop? anthropologie and urban outfitters, mostly, because i work at urban. sometimes lf (only when their 70% off sale is going on), dover street market, kith and off-white.

10. how would you describe your style? total hypebae. i love streetwear, my influences are virgil abloh and heron preston when it comes to style and what clothing i wear.

11. favorite social media account that’s a hard one because i’m really not sure what you mean? if it’s a person, i don’t have one. if it’s an app, twitter, most definitely.

12. what size bed do you have? full size!

13. any siblings? one sister. hate her.

14. if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why? like i said before in the other ask ^.^ france. nantes for the spring and summer, paris for the winter and fall. i fell in love with paris when i went for the first time with my friend (who i like, by the way) when he invited me.

15. favorite snapchat filter? do not have a snapchat, so i can’t say.

16. favorite makeup brand(s) i don’t wear makeup a lot, but anatasia for the brows. most definitely. my favorite perfume though is viktor and rolf, flowerbomb.

17. how many times a week do you shower? winter and fall is 4 to 5 times a week. spring and summer is 5 to 8 times a week.

18. favorite tv show? if it’s not “the office”…… i send it back!

19. shoe size? 8 to 9, depending on the company.

20. how tall are you? 5 feet, 1 inch ^.^

21. sandals or sneakers? i hate feet, so sneakers

22. do you go to the gym? god, no.

23. describe your dream date running errands then cooking a meal together. sounds lame, but to me that really is the most domesticated thing you can do with someone you love.

24. how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment? i’m all cashless, baby.

25. what color socks are you wearing? navy blue with little red hearts on them.

26. how many pillows do you sleep with? 2, but they suck so i’m going to get 2 new ones, when i get my paycheck.

27. do you have a job? what do you do? yes, i have 2 actually. i work in retail for both (cole haan and urban outfitters)

28. how many friends do you have? i have a lot of accquaintences, but only 4 to 5 people i call my true friends. my ride or dies, if you will.

29. what’s the worst thing you have ever done? probably steal. i was a huge kleptomaniac back in my early teens.

30. what’s your favorite candle scent? vanilla or the green one from febreeze (i forgot what the scent is named)

31. 3 favorite boy names everett, cole, aspen (+bonus scott)

32. 3 favorite girl names alex, denise, elle

33. favorite actor? tom holland or sebastian stan. don’t make me choose!

34. favorite actress? zoe saldana by a landslide.

35. who is your celebrity crush? i really don’t have one! i admire celebrities for their acting and charity work.

36. favorite movie? a tie between captain america: the winter soldier and scott pilgrim vs the world.

37. do you read a lot? what’s your favorite book? i don’t read a lot, but when i do they are mostly about real life events and autobiographies.

38. money or brains? why not money and brains

39. do you have a nickname? what is it? my real name, yes. but for now, let’s keep with nova.

40. how many times have you been to the hospital? too many times to count, if i’m being honest. always for my depression or suicide attempts.

41. top 10 favorite songs in NO particular order, btw! – lover is a day by cuco – it’s strange by louis the child – in your head (rl grime edit) by g jones – ucla (heimanu remix) by rl grime – flicker by porter robinson – pursuit (jawns remix) by gesaffelstein – the wave (louis the child remix) by elohim – hi this is flume (whole ep) by flume – you’re on by madeon – luv by whipped cream

42. do you take medications daily? yes.

43. what is your skin type? dry… smh.

44. what is your biggest fear? being kidnapped and sold on the black market.

45. how many kids do you want? zero.

46. what’s your go to hair style? space buns!

47. what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc) medium-ish

48. who is your role model? my friends. they’re older than me (by a couple years) and they’re doing exceedingly well for their age.

49. what was the last compliment you recieved? “i like your dress!”

50. what was the last text you sent? “thankssssss.”

51. how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real? sadly, 10 or 11. smh, my mother really let me believe in a lie for 10 years.

52. what is your dream car? maserati SUV.

53. opinion on smoking? don’t like it. but, i’m a hypocrite because i juul.

54. do you go to college? yes!

55. what is your dream job? definitely NOT what i’m doing right now. probably working at the refinery 29 office in los angeles, doing something with the fashion department.

56. would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs? i love the city but when it comes down to it, my ideal place would be rural… me and my husband secluded on a goat farm in nantes, france? amazing.

57. do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels? yes. if you don’t, then what’s the point of going to a hotel?

58. do you have freckles? no :( i wish.

59. do you smile for pictures? yes, but a tightlipped smile.

60. how many pictures do you have on your phone? 24,680

61. have you ever peed in the woods? yes, on a camping trip.

62. do you still watch cartoons? yes, futurama, archer and bob’s burgers!

63. do you prefer chicken nuggets from wendy’s or mcdonalds? never had wendy’s! never had mcdonald’s!

64. favorite dipping sauce? the honey mustard from wings over… *watering mouth pursues*

65. what do you wear to bed? al-natural, baby.

66. have you ever won a spelling bee? no. sadly.

67. what are your hobbies? i have my own clothing line and i really love photography, drawing and painting. also i make music ^.^

68. can you draw? cc: 67th question.

69. do you play an instrument? piano.

70. what was the last concert you saw? louis the child at governor’s ball ^.^

71. tea or coffee? coffee.

72. starbucks or dunkin donuts? that vanilla bean creme frappucino ^.^

73. do you want to get married? yes. of course.

74. what is your crush’s first and last intial? s.p.

75. are you going to change your last name when you get married?maybe… we’ll see.

76. what color looks best on you? black.

77. do you miss anyone right now? s.p.

78. do you sleep with your door open or closed? closed.

79. do you believe in ghosts? yes.

80. what is your biggest pet peeve? stupidity.

81. last person you called s.p.

82. favorite ice cream flavor? ben and jerry’s milk and cookies :)

83. regular oreos or golden oreos? regular, always and forever.

84. chocolate or rainbow sprinkles? rainbow! it’s happiness in sprinkles

85. what shirt are you wearing? a red one :)

86. what is your phone background? porter robinson ^.^

87. are you outgoing or shy? little bit of coloumn a… little bit of coloumn b…

88. do you like it when people play with your hair? yes, only if i’m comfortable with you.

89. do you like your neighbors? the right one yes, the left one no.

90. do you wash your face? at night? in the morning? no, only in the shower :)

91. have you ever been high? yes, not a pleasant experience.

92. have you ever been drunk? yes… also not a pleasant experience.

93. last thing you ate? homemade macaroni and cheese

94. favorite lyrics right now any lyric from “lover is a day” by cuco

95. summer or winter? winter !

96. day or night? night !

97. dark, milk or white chocolate? i do not like chocolate ! yuck !

98. favorite month? april :)

99. what is your zodiac sign virgo

100. who was the last person you cried in front of? my coworker :(

#she answers

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nutriyumaddict · 8 years

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Rules: Complete the survey and say who tagged you in the beginning. When you are finished tag 5 people to do this survey. Have fun and enjoy!!!

I was tagged by @benjis-cool-times - she is a wondrous and playful sea otter. :D

1. Are you named after someone?

I was named after a song. That Beatles one.

2. When is the last time you cried?

Hmmmmm...I do not cry very often but I think it was during my super sad period last fall?

3. Do you like your handwriting?

Sometimes. It's kind of sloppy if my hand is tired but if I take the time, then yes, I like it.

4. What is your favorite lunch meat.

Hmmmm...weird. I guess turkey? But I'd honestly prefer a sandwich w/ BLT or tuna salad or just straight-up veggies & hummus.

5. Do you have kids?

Nope. Just a cat. She is a demanding feline but we don’t have to send her to college.

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Probably. I hope so.

7. Do you use sarcasm?

No. Neverrrrrrrr.

8. Do you still have your tonsils?

Oh god, I read this as "toenails" first and I was like - wtf? Hahaha, yes, tonsils intact (toenails too).

9. Would you bungee jump?

Probably not. I have a fear of heights thing.

10. What is your favorite kind of cereal?

Um...so I generally don't like cereal because I don't like cold, wet, soggy things BUT...I do make a fairly killer granola w/ oats, nuts, cherries, flaxseed meal, brown sugar, and maple syrup.

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?

Most of my shoes don't have laces but I guess I just usually slip off my running shoes. So, no.

12. Do you think you’re a strong person?

Hmmmmm....maybe? Depends on the context.

13. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

All the Spumoni, please! Second favorite - malted chocolate.

14. What is the first thing you notice about people?

I think hair. Is that weird?

15. Red or pink?

Red.

16. What is the least favorite physical thing you like about yourself?

That I do not have the power to be invisible when that would be a helpful super power to have.

17. What color pants and shoes are you wearing now?

I am wearing multi-colored flannel pajama pants and multi-colored slippers.

18. What is the last thing you ate?

Maple-glazed salmon, roasted sweet potatos, and green beans (yay! I felt okay enough to actually make a healthy dinner!)

19. What are you listening to right now?

My husband play guitar in the bedroom.

20. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

Green.

21. Favorite smell?

Coffee.

22. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone?

My mom.

23. Favorite sport to watch?

Um, not really.

24. Hair color?

Red.

25. Eye color?

Hazel.

26. Do you wear contacts?

Yep.

27. Favorite food to eat?

Tacos. But then also everything else. (Except bananas, blue cheese, and beets.)

28. Scary movies or comedy?

Probably comedy.

29. Last movie you watched?

Rogue One. I've really wanted to go see Hidden Figures but first husband and then I got a dumb cold.

30. What color shirt are you wearing?

I am wearing a brown t-shirt that has Jack Skellington discovering the TARDIS in the forest.

31. Summer or winter?

Winter. Although, tbh, I am kind of getting sick of this winter.

32. Hugs or kisses?

Hugs. But both are delightful.

33. What book are you currently reading?

I just finished The Invisible Library last night. I have not started a new one yet.

34. Who do you miss right now?

My friend Dana. She lives far away and we kind of lost touch after we both moved to different corners of the US.

35. What is on your mouse pad?

An illustration of three macarons.

36. What is the last TV program you watched?

I just watched the latest ep of This is Us.

37. What is the best sound?

Silence when I'm stressed out or music when I'm happy.

38. Rolling Stones or The Beatles?

The Beatles.

39. What is the furthest you have traveled?

France.

40. Do you have a special talent?

I don't know. Cooking? Arty stuff?

41. Where were you born?

Elmhurst, Il. (suburb of Chicago)

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MD3 watches Carole & Tuesday season 1 part 2

I didn't write any reaction notes while watching eps13-14 because I wasn't at my laptop at the time. And I didn't write any during ep15, because I was trying to not be so distracted. By by ep16, I couldn't not write reactions anymore. ^^;;;;

Also, I watched this half of the season mostly in English dub. I thought if I did, I wouldn't get so distracted. And it did help me be able to watch while I ate. Yet I ended up marathoning the rest of the series all day. ^^;;;;;

2:26 PM 12/27/2019

Carole and Tuesday ep16

"Where can we find a band that will play for free?" *Turns corner and finds a band playing for free* LOL I love this show! LOL ^o^ No, but seriously, I love how virtually conflict-free it is. Whatever obstacles there are, get resolved quickly or by the end of an episode or 2. ^o^ I used to be the type who was all about the "demon hunter" subgenre and Shonen anime. But yesterday, I had to admit that maybe I'm not that anymore. Yesterday, I had been trying to get myself to catch up on Dr. Stone and Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba, but instead I watched more Ascendance of a Bookworm and Carole & Tuesday. ~.~; For a few years now, I've found myself unable to watch anything outside of the iyashikei genre: moe shows, slice of life, "feel good" series, etc. Hell, Natsume Yuujinchou is one of my top 3 favorite anime. And now I can't stop watching Carole & Tuesday...but I can't get myself to watch more of a good show like Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba. x~x; I guess this means my anxiety has gotten really bad if I have to exclusively watch soothing series with no traumatic drama. I recently heard a movie reviewer (reviewing Uncut Gems and) describing the Drama genre as supposed to make you tense and uncomfortable, and I was like, "Nope. Not for me. No wonder I can't watch dramas." But I don't want people to mistake me as saying series like Carole & Tuesday and Natsume Yuujinchou are "shallow". I cry at every episode of Natsume Yuujinchou. Carole & Tuesday constantly move me inside. It's just not the manufactued drama and glorification of meanspiritedness that seems to be on display in the Drama genre (for dramam series/movies outside of iyashikei category).

"She was born poor. Her parents both died when she was young." What? I saw this clip subtitled before Netflix US was able to premier it. And the translator said that Flora's parents died because they couldn't afford their hospital bills. And that really struck me. It's a real thing going on in the US. So I'm sad that Netflix didn't have the same translation in their subtitles.

Oh, wow. The dub translated it as "She lost both her parents at a young age, becuase they couldn't afford a hospital."

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Carole & Tuesday ep17

Ertegun is so stupid. LOL He doesn't even realize that the one thing he has left is his name, and he could use that to make money.

I was so sure Aaron was the black_knight. Well, at least we can ID the stalker by his fingernails.

LOL They both thought they could get away with playing the same song. LOL

You tell her, Spencer.

Woah. It just turned into Perfect Blue.

6:51 PM 12/27/2019

Continuing the ep.

Well, you sure ARE going to die soon. I don't care if Ertegun has been mostly an antagonist during the first half of this series. That Pinocchio needs to get pummeled. lol But don't kick him into the air! Take him to jail!

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6:57 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep18

They're not going to try to interrogate Aaron? Sounds like he has an idea who the stalker is.

They didn't ALREADY tell the police?!????

Hofner! I like when Gus reconnects with his old friends. Even if it is business. It's like a glimpse of these guys being rag-tag musicians back in the day, contrasted against them now, is kind of amusing.

Why is she interviewing him? I thought Tuesday wanted to ask him what he's been covering about her mom.

I should look up Kyle's voice actor. He sounds familiar.

Now that I think about it, Angela has been really preoccupied by this stalker stubplot. Usually she's more of an antagonist towards Carole and Tuesday.

Well, the phone is bugged. ...Or is it the car?

"Anti-Mars" terrorists?

Please don't tell me Jerry caused the exploison.

Well, I didn't expect Tao to get pulled into this political subplot.

I kind of wish I hadn't seen this clip of "Threads" beforehand. Then I wouldn't have been reading for when Tuesday was crushing on Kyle. Still, even while watching it, if it wasn't for Tuesday's blushing, I probably wouldn't have gotten the hint that she was forming a crush on him, because I didn't really see why anyone would crush on him for the few interactions they've had. I mean, Tuesday finally talked about her mom and even fears that she's afraid to burden Carole with. So maybe she confused "friendship-like therapy sessions" with a deep connection?

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7:33 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep19

I hope Alba City's infrasstructure is built for snow and whatever run-off water it might cause.

They don't have money for a big stage show! LOL

I wonder if Tao and BlackKnight know each other from past programming industry.

Bilboard status!

Aw, don't call Ertigun a traitor...

I'm surprised Carole recognized Amer. Boys' facial bone structures can change a lot as they grow.

Whenever Angela and Carole&Tuesday have their little stand-offs, it reminds me of a "battle anime". lol

"If you tell us, maybe I'll stop calling you a traitor." Oh, poor Roddy! LOL

I actually really like this idea of Tao's programming skills, how the analytical psychology programs apply to both music and politics, all this AI, and hacking. If they made a whole series about that, I'd be very interested.

Dun dun DUN!

Even though Ertigun is an idiot and can be a jerk, it still is sad to see someone sad.

I wonder if the Black Knight set up this hoodie guy---and there we go.

Oh! So that's why that lcip I saw of Carole & Tuesday's song from this ep seemed like most of their electronics were out of comission. I'm surprised Tao's microwave emitter didn't blow out Ertigun's electronic equipment too. ----Wait. So all their equipment wasn't blown out? They chose to go low fi? Good. It's like what that Chinese cinema movie critic said: It's better to contrast a superstar vs trying to copy cat Bruce Lee; that's why Jackie Chan was able to stand out. But it's really sweet that Carole & Tuesday prefaced their performance with "this is how we play at home for each other". ;u; Even if it's quiet, it's cool to see the crowd so perfectly captivated.

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7:58 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep20

Jeeze, this is getting serious. As in uncomfortably plausable in real life. Big companies being behind a political candidate, so they can manipulate laws to get away with whatever they want... Yeek.

"Popcorn Bomb"? ^o^

Wait a second... I switched to Japanese dub so I could check out his seiyuu... Is that...Keiji Fujiwara? No way... Wikipedia says Subaru Kimura.

I like that this series is discussing how rap is used as a protest tool. I'm not that familiar with the genre, so I wasn't aware of how entrenched it is in politics until I saw some reports recently. Apparently, there are even authoritarian governments trying to create their own rappers, in an attempt to drown out all the dissident popular rappers.

I know "I don't have time to be sad" is framed as some kind of "admirable" resilience, but it seems kind of sad to me.

It's funny how little characterization their band is given, other than their character design and a few short moments, but I guess this series doesn't have much time for that on top of everything else.

Well, that's a target on Amer's back.

Angela's adopted?

Maybe I haven't noted this yet, but it's really creative all the ways this series finds to save its budget. Like keeping Angela in essentially the same outfit as one of her previous standard costume designs, but just changing the color of her strapless top. And they get away with it; it really does look very different, just by changing the color (and probably symolizes the darker turn her story is taking.) It's impressive. It's how studio Bones can afford all this rotoscoping and so much more animation that other series.

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8:25 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep21

"Nevermind the serious darma going on in Angela's B plot. Let's get on with our A plot." LOL

Y'know there's a lot of anime where a girls says, "Will you go somewhere with me?" And she's framed really cute. Then cut, and there's supposed to be some kind of scene of them hanging out that the characters say isn't a date, but the direction/framing and the male protagonist treat like a date. Is that phrase "Wanna go somewhere with me?" like a common phrase in Japanese used to ask someone out on a date?

HOw did Roddy make that promise without already knowing how much a natural Christmas tree costs? lol

Wow. So many pills. This escalated quickly.

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8:43 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep22

I"m so glad we have protagonists who can worry about their "rival".

"You don't have time to be worrying about other people." But that's why I like Carole & Tuesday! ;o;!

Now that I think about it, isn't it weird that they're meeting and having this complicated discussions with Crystal in a hotel lobby instead of a conference room? But hey, if it saves studio Bones money to reuse the same set designs, rather than design a whole new conference room and hall to a conference room, then it's an impressive budget cutting technique.

They're so cute! Jumping up and down and giggling. ^o^

Look how flabergasted Carole looks while Tuesday sings "happy birthday" to her! ^o^ And Ziggy is so cute! Cooing/singing along too. ^o^

Professor Zeeman? Who's that?

Whole scene stopped so Roddy can compliment their dresses... Dawwwwww.... ^___^

Omg someone really studied US award ceremony monologues. All the cheesey cringe and shout-outs to the audience and everything. O_o

OMG The host is outsing Tuesday's relation to Valerie?! Did peopel know that before???

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9:04 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep23

Aw, Angela's #1 fan/manager is back.

Dang. Skip-tachi getting arrested for just walking down the street. I know I started off watching this show because "nothing really bad happens", but as these last few episodes come up, it's sure escalating into "real world problems" territory. o_o I can't even look at the "MICE" on the cops' backs and this whole subplot about refugees and immigration being used as a political talking point for an election more than as anything else, without thinking of real world problems right now.

Just a second ago, I thought it was really cool that Spencer was actually in Carole & Tuesday's apartment. But now EVERYBODY'S there! LOL

I like that they mentioned "scaring people into self-censorship" and not just banning freedom of speech.

At first, this speech sounded like unrealistic slice of life fluff. "Saving the world through a song"? Isn't that what won the war in Macross? That level of unrealism. But when Tuesday said, "If we can all sing freely, none of us will be silenced," then it all made sense as a unified protest song. Like, "I dare you to arrest the entire industry".

"But a person who's not idealistic is nothing but a slave!" turned into "Although, if you don't defend what you believe in, then what's the use in living." o.o

Well, I didn't expect Valerie to confront Jerry about the bombing.

Well, now we know why the first episodes introduced the Immigration Hall.

Wow. there's a whole cyberpunk corporate espionage movie going on in the B plot. lol

Oh..."Mother Earth"...I saw spoilers of that song before I actually watched this episode. That was the one interpretation I didn't consider.

I love when the cuts go to Ziggy with the sleepy eyes.

I'm really glad they brought back Angela's #1 fan/manager to be there to listen to Angela's emotional breakdown.

I like that Tao and his AI exchanged some semblence of "human"/empathic concern in saying goodbye to each other.

Is Tao really going to disappear?

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9:34 PM 12/27/2019

Carole & Tuesday ep24

So Pr. Zeeman is a designer baby creator.

Oh, wow. Tao and Angela are like siblings.

Don't people die by jumping off bridges?????? O~O!

LOL Scream from the rooftops then "SHUT UP!" LOL

The landlord finally spoke! ^o^

Aw, their idol Crystal is fangirling over their other idol Flora. And then Desmond appears to overshadow them all. LOL

AW, they even brought back Carole's friend working security at the Immigration Hall. ;u;

Finally watching this song in context. ;U;

Well, if Shinichiro Watanabe wanted to make a series about the music industry and all its tropes, he did it. It's got that "We Are the World" moment and everything.

The lyrics of "Mother" really mean something different after realizing they're protesting for freedom of speech. o.O

9:56 PM 12/27/2019

And now, done. That was Carole and Tuesday. ^___^

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