#found a song i was vibing with and its 1:39 minute long

[manourfi]

Songs should have a minimum time limit actually. What do you mean this "song" is less than 2 minutes long

[llama-milk-for-the-egg-nog]

Thoughts on Mulan (2020)

Ok so I had heard some stuff beforehand about this movie, but I didn’t wanna let that tint my experience too much, though it kind of did in the form of noticing western influence on certain things. Here’s a list of thoughts more or less in chronological order.  First I wrote these in a notebook, and now I’m putting them here.

The beginning sequence reminds me so much of Kung Fu Huslte

though honestly it might just be that stephen chow’s movies are pretty much the extent of chinese-made media that I watch

Rosalind Chao is here, I’m a Keiko O’Brien stan so she reminded me of DS9

Fa Zhou saying something about “emissary” also reminded me of DS9

The music where the rourans first attack is cool I guess

idk if the brass made the music of the imperial city sound kinda western or what, but it certainly did sound militaristic (which I guess it’s supposed to)

Why does mulan have a little sister instead of a little brother? to add more female characters to the story? she doesn’t really do much though

After mulan’s whole childhood sequence, it cuts to a shot of the witch in the desert, which if you didn’t already know the story, might make it seem like mulan grew up to be the witch

although this makes some sense too bc the movie likes to compare them

the witch twists into a hawk (?), neat!

I saw people earlier comment about both men and women in china (and other parts of the world) keeping their hair long, so when mulan’s hair fell out of place in the matchmaker scene it made me notice that both the men and women also wear their hair up, which in turn causes the part of the movie later when mulan emerges after the avalanche to make way less sense since how would they know she’s a woman?

ok this is the thing I’m upset about, its a small thing but still, Why don’t we get to see the sword form?? If you remember in the animated version, her father does this straight sword form. (It’s a real form, not just made up for the animated movie). So I was like “ok maybe mulan will do it later” and then it NEVER HAPPENED. (possibly she did it during the “make a man out of you” training sequence, but the odd camera angels and quick cutaways make it impossible to tell)

I also had heard earlier that the script was not subtle at all,,,y’all were right

oh look, a phoenix

mulan: “the phoenix”

yes, we know

Commander Donnie Yen Tung’s entrance is iconic

BAHAHFHDSK mulan’s reaction to seeing naked men skjfdk

uh oh,,only 40 minutes in and the forced romance is already upon us

although, in retrospect, the way they resolved it at the end didn’t make me cringe that much

I’m a slut for butterfly kicks

the scene where mulan bathes in the lake has a much more predatory undertone now, especially now that Ling, Chien Po, and Yao are missing

the trio made the scene funny in the animated movie

can the not-Li-Shang-love-interest Honghui please leave Jun/Mulan alone?? ffs

speaking of no Li Shang, I liked the Donnie Yen mentor character half better than the Honghui half

Honghui kind of comes off as a simp ngl

what’s with the witch’s makeup/outfit? are they based on something?

speaking of outfits, awhile ago, I saw a really cool doll alteration video for mulan 2020

Commander Tung’s monologue/ mulan’s and the army’s training sequence about Chi where the words “Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within” are spoken is actually my favorite part of the whole movie. As much as I would have liked a musical remake, I think they translated the visual elements and the words together well in a way that was different enough from the animated version, but still satisfying to watch (at least for me).

They also integrate the music of Reflection here really well imho.  In the animated version, there’s a point where mulan modulates to a higher key, but the live action version doesn’t do that, which further pushes it away from sounding like disney’s classic musical theatre style.  They also changed a few of the notes, and I think the overall changes to Reflection in this part of the movie really improve this montage.

Compared to the Spiderman where they changed the notes from harmonic minor to (normal) minor (idk if that’s the real term I’m not actually a music major) in the MCU opening sequence, the note changes in Reflection don’t actually upset me.

my brain: oh look!! flowers!! cool! whooshhhh (honestly I couldn’t even tell if she was doing flowers right in the first part of the movie until here)

Mulan/Jun is gonna marry Commander Tung’s daughter? Yeah girl!! Get it!

oh look at me I’m a rouran and I gotta turn around on my moving horse to shoot arrows let me just swoOP

1:01:56 WHY ARE YOUR FINGERS IN FRONT OF THE HILT oh ok they fixed in the next shot but its still annoying

Unsubtle phoenix imagery not subtle

I guess I was warned about it :/

oh look its my fav interval a major 7th, I wonder if that’s supposed to be like “the last step before rebirth/the octave” bc of how Jun “dies” after the witch throws a weapon that gets stuck in her chest binding

at least she’s not using ace bandages or smth but idk much about binding

WHY ARE YOU THROWING OFF ALL YOUR ARMOR WHEN YOU’RE GOING INTO BATTLE? ACCEPTING AND PRESENTING YOURSELF AS WHO YOU REALLY ARE DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO TAKE OFF YOUR ARMOR

ok I know it was so she would be visually distinguishable from the other imperial soldiers, but still

the soldiers doing the turtle thing with their shields reminds me of the “we irritating 😂😂😂” meme

brass to signify that mulan is going to have a heroic moment (causing the avelanche) seems western to me. Idk much about traditional chinese instruments but it seems like they could use more of those.

Guys,,,I’m so fucking stupid I- .... it took me an hour and ten minutes to register the Lucky Cricket stand-in character,,,excuse me,,,,

the scene where mulan saves hongui and puts her hand over his heart gives me r*ylo vibes and I hate it

the witch, 1:14:40: “🎵yes I~ am a girl like you~🎵”

damn the music even reminds of the barbie movie a bit

The emperor’s voice reminds me of the mentor character from Kung Pow Enter the Fist which in itself was a western guy making fun of old cheesy martial arts movies (and how movies sometimes have a white male protagonist when they’re deadass set in asia and everyone else is asian)

the mentor characters voice was dubbed into english (and you can tell) but to me the emperor’s voice also kinda sounds like that

I’m disappointed that we didn’t get some kind of scene like the part in the animated verison where Mulan leads Ling, Chien Po, and Yao to cross dress to help save the emperor.

to me, that scene in the animated ver. is a reminder that it isn’t shameful for men to act/dress feminine

in general the animated version, to me, sends the message that it is ok to have both feminine and masculine traits, and that they don’t undermine each other or your identity, so they should all be embraced as a part of one’s personality (which tbh really helped me as a young kid)

the 2020 ver,, just doesn’t really send that message, instead its more broad like “be true to yourself”

I’m a slut for butterfly kicks

the witch taking an arrow for mulan really didn’t do it for me tbh, it made her seem a little wishy washy

like, I get that she wanted acceptance/validation, and that a part of her was glad that mulan found that for herself, but what about the rest of her motivation? Isn’t a desire for power or something what separates her from mulan?

Unsubtle phoenix imagery and dialogue is unsubtle

The music playing during the Mulan v. Khan duel reminds me of Duel of the Fates

actually the setting of the duel and other things really remind of of the Maul v. Ahsoka duel from Clone Wars s7

damn I really wanna watch the Maul v. Ahsoka duel cause the fight choreo is just,, so much more interesting

aww! Cricket is alive!

Around 1:34:39 , the music does not feel like it should be building up to Reflection here.  At this point, I think the melody had been reprised too many times and was getting to be overused (I still like it in the training sequence though).

I was happy to see Ming Na Wen!

Mulan is going home and ugh! Honghui! Don’t you know she’s betrothed to Commander Tung’s daughter? smh. homewrecker simp.

the matchmaker reminds me of Baron Harkonnen (Dune)

cheezy credits song is cheezy, even cheezier because they reprised reflection again

[karrahkshatria]

Get Closer With Me

Hi guys! I was supposed to work on my articles today but I ended up procrastinating the whole day. Is there such thing as a productive procrastination? I guess, this must be a great example of such. 

Quarantine has made me think of some worthwhile activities, including this. The other day, I found myself looking through my cabinet and discovered a bunch of nostalgic things. It made me realize how simple life was way before. Indeed, life is a never ending cycle of going through changes. Sure, we can never turn back time but at least, we have these things that would help us reminisce our past moments. 

I also remembered a note I published on my Facebook wall way back 2011. I got to scan and copy its content here and figured I could compare my perspective 9 years ago to present time. 

So here it is! It’s a bit long but if you have time, just take time. Hahaha!

NAME: Karrah Kshatria B. Seronay

AGE: 27

BIRTHDATE: January 27, 1993

PRESENT  ADDRESS:  Butuan City

WHAT WAS YOUR:

2011

1. last beverage = too big.

2. last phone call = from my mother, dugay na to.

3. last text message = quote man to. gm actually.

4. last song you listened to = Papa Amerikano haha

5. last time you cried = feb 2011 burial sa akong lola.

2020

1. last beverage = water,still O_O

2. last phone call = from an unknown number. Food Panda. haha

3. last text message = BPI OTP O_O but if from a person, Innah – we text whatever we like to tell each other. hahaha

4. last song you listened to = haha how jeje was Papa Amerikano before? Last night, parents were in the mood to listen to old songs. From what I remember, it was Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

5. last time you cried = I think weeks ago, when I was watching a KDRAMA. Haha. If I remember it right, it was Ep 13 of I’m Not A Robot. Hands up, fellow Kdrama fans?!

HAVE YOU EVER:

2011

6. dated someone twice = no

7. been cheated on = no

8. kissed someone & regretted it = wala

9. lost someone special = idk

10. been depressed = YAH

11. been drunk and threw up = nope!

2020

6. dated  someone twice = no, not ever

7. been  cheated on = No. And I hope it will not happen.  

8. kissed  someone & regretted it = Nope, never had a first kiss…

9. lost  someone special = Yes! If lost is defined as walking away from your  life. Or if lost means death, still the same answer as my grandparents were  also special.

10. been  depressed = Yes. We all deal with hard times in our lives but what’s  most important is how we get up from those and the people who were there to  support us.

11. been  drunk and threw up = still, no coz I don’t drink. It’s a personal  and my doctor’s choice. So, I can always get away with it. haha! But I throw  up on a normal basis before when I was sick. O_O Is that valid? Haha!

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:

2011

12. Sky Blue

13. Purple

14. White

2020

12. Sky Blue

13. Pink- the  only thing that changed. Haha. Girly naka ghorl?!

14. White

LAST YEAR (2010/2019), HAVE YOU:

2011

15. Made  a new friend = YEAH!

16. Fallen  out of love = NO

17. Laughed  until you cried = YEAH YEAH

18. Met  someone who changed you =  maybe

19. Found  out who your true friends were = YE

20. Found  out someone was talking about you = I can't remember

21. Kissed  anyone on your FB friend's list = yeah! my family.

2020

15. Made  a new friend = Yes! Shoutout to my new friends! :)

16. Fallen  out of love = No

17. Laughed  until you cried = Yes, the last time was with my laughing buddy,  Alex! We understand each other’s humor because great minds think alike.  hahaha

18. Met  someone who changed you =  I think so. Some people change you,  without you noticing it. Because even the smallest things matter.

19. Found  out who your true friends were = I’ve always had my trust in my  friends. I don’t have a lot but the ones I have, I know they are all true.

20. Found  out someone was talking about you = No? Not curious though. I mean,  we all talk about certain people. But that does not necessarily have to be  anything negative.

21. Kissed  anyone on your FB friend's list = Still the same, family

GENERAL:

2011

22. How  many people on your FB friends list do you know in real life = 90%

24. Do  you have any pets = way uso

25. Do  you want to change your name = di ko, mahal bayad.

26. What  did you do for your last birthday =celebrated with friends and  family

27. What  time did you wake up today = 1pm

28. What  were you doing at midnight last night = nag internet

29. Name  something you CANNOT wait for = COLLEGE GRADUATION

30. Last  time you saw your Mother = minutes ago

31. What  is one thing you wish you could change about your life = none, I  <3 my life. char

32. What  are you listening to right now = sound sa TV ug sa electic fan nga  gatuyok

33. Have  you ever talked to a person named Tom? = wa, di ko kastorya niya kay  iring sya. nag joke ko. HAHAHA

34. What's  getting on your nerves right now = boredom

35. Most  visited webpage = facebook, twitter, yahoo and everything

37. Nicknames =  karrah, kar, yang, yang2, yangertz, karyang, yangerz, shat2, karyatot

38. Relationship  Status = SINGLE

39. Zodiac  sign = Aquarius

40. He  or She = She

41. Elementary =  Urios College Grade School

42. High  School = Agusan National High School

43. College =  XU

44. Hair  color = Black

45. Long  or short = medium

47. Do  you have a crush on someone? O_O

48. What  do you like about yourself? can't think of, daghan musulod sa akong  mind, haha feelurs!

49. Piercings = ��none. bisag earrings wa

50. Tattoos =  wala, sauna nuon kanang pataban sa mga pagkaon na tag pisohon

51. Righty  or lefty = righty! I wish both :))

2020

22. How  many people on your FB friends list do you know in real life = 90%,  I think the same. I accept only the people I know. Artista ka ghorl?! haha

24. Do  you have any pets = Yes, we have pets now! A dog and a cat. Cookie  and Minggoy! And we love them both dearly in spite of their imperfections.  Hahaha Drama ka ghorl?!

25. Do  you want to change your name = Before, I don’t like my name. Now, I  have learned to appreciate its unique nature. Kshatria… At least, smaller probability  to be “HIT” in applying for NBI Clearance.

26. What  did you do for your last birthday =celebrated with friends and  family, same same. Anyhow, I still feel special and thankful that I reached  this age. Every day is a blessing, after all.

27. What  time did you wake up today = 12:30PM, 30 minutes earlier than  before. Not really a morning person. #quarantingz

28. What were you doing  at midnight last night = procrastinating. I was supposed to  do my task for my online job, but I took time to delay important things and  played Trivia 360. So ended up sleeping at 4:30 AM. O_O

29. Name  something you CANNOT wait for = Waah, it’s been 7 years since  college graduation! Time flies! Now, I cannot wait for this quarantine to be  over. But I’m taking my time to enjoy and be productive. I can’t wait to travel. I also can’t wait to figure out where I want  to be for the rest of my life. I can’t seem to dig deep inside what it is that I really want. So,might as well just live in the  moment and be amazed by what’s in store. 

30. Last  time you saw your Mother = She’s actually in front of me right at  this very moment.

31. What  is one thing you wish you could change about your life = None. We  are where we are now because of our past. As much as I struggle with  contentment, I still would choose to have this life at the end of the day. We  are here for a reason. We are here for a mission.

32. What  are you listening to right now = I am listening to my family’s random conversation. I also hear a car machine being turned on by our neighbor. My  mom is humming a Tiktok music. My younger sister is listening to old songs.  It’s quite fascinating that our ears can hear all of these sounds all at the  same time. 

33. Have  you ever talked to a person named Tom? = Hahaha! Sir Tom! Tomas! My  BPI officemate. The ever mighty and passionate employee, Tom!

34. What's  getting on your nerves right now = None. Positive vibes all the way!

35. Most  visited webpage = FB and IG. Sometimes, Twitter.

37. Nicknames =  karrah, kar, yang, yang2, yangertz

38. Relationship  Status = SINGLE

39. Zodiac  sign = Aquarius

40. He  or She = She

41. Elementary =  Urios College Grade School

42. High  School = Agusan National High School

43. College =  Xavier University

44. Hair  color = Black

45. Long  or short = So now I’m quite confused whether this is pertaining to my hair or my height? If hair, medium. After 1 year, it has finally grown.  Hahaha. If height, then I have long accepted I am short.

47. Do  you have a crush on someone?  I don’t admit my crush before. But  now, my crush is Jo In Sung. So, I guess I have a crush.

48. What  do you like about yourself? Modesty aside, I think I am an  understanding person? Patient? Kind? Hehe. Char lang.

49. Piercings =  Still none, no earrings also since a couple of years ago.

50. Tattoos =  None

51. Righty  or lefty = Righty!

FIRSTS :

2011 

52. First  surgery= wala

53. First  piercing = ears

54. First  best friend = hmmm.. *thinking*  *reminiscing* :)

55. First  sport you joined = pingpong kanang sa pe. hahaha

56. First  vacation = la nako ka remember

58. First  pair of trainers =  ha?

2020

52. First  surgery=  Way back 2016. My first and hopefully, only surgery. It’s termed as Small Bowel Resection wherein a  part of my intestines where a tumor has grown was cut and removed. It was a  life-changing moment and I could not be more thankful to God for giving me  another chance to live. Life is precious!

53. First  piercing = Ears. Yeeeeaaaars ago!

54. First  best friend = My sister! My ate! It has got something to do with our 1 year age gap. Too close. Haha!

55. First  sport you joined = Same same! Not yo’ sporty girl!

56. First  vacation = Still can’t remember.

58. First  pair of trainers =  I still don’t get this. *puzzled*

RIGHT NOW: 

2011

59. Eating =  nope

60. Drinking =  wala

61. I'm  about to = sweep the floor. 

63. Waiting  for = ♫ tonight wooooo ♫

2020

59. Eating =  Chocolate!

60. Drinking =  none

61. I'm  about to = Werk. Have to write articles. So, I’m currently  procrastinating by doing this. LOL 

63. Waiting  for = you. *oops* haha

YOUR FUTURE :

2011

64. Want  kids? = maybe

65. Get  Married? = I can't say basin diay mag madre ko :)

66. Career? =  businesswoman!

2020

64. Want  kids? = still a maybe

65. Get  Married? = I am open. It feels good to have someone you can be with  for the rest of your life. But we never really know what our future holds. 

66. Career? =  Now, this question has become so hard to answer. But, I have always dreamed of working in ADB or BSP. Taas ng pangarap, ghorl?!

WHICH IS BETTER :

2011

67. Lips  or eyes = eyes O_O

68. Hugs  or kisses = hugs.

69. Shorter  or taller = taller

70. Older  or Younger = same age? 

71. Romantic  or spontaneous = wa koy hanaw ani

72. Nice  stomach or nice arms = nice everything haha

73. Sensitive  or loud = ambot ui. bahala sya

74. Hook-up  or relationship = uhmm... relationship.

75. Trouble  maker or hesitant = trouble maker hahaha

2020

67. Lips  or eyes = eyes, still

68. Hugs  or kisses = hugs.

69. Shorter  or taller = taller

70. Older  or Younger = same age. Hasn’t changed.

71. Romantic  or spontaneous = Spontaneous!

72. Nice  stomach or nice arms = nice arms

73. Sensitive  or loud = Sensitive?

74. Hook-up  or relationship = relationship, definitely! I must have not known  what a hook-up means before.

75. Trouble  maker or hesitant = Now, I don’t get this question. hmmm

HAVE YOU EVER :

2011

76. Kissed  a stranger = nope!

77. Drank  hard liquor = nope, I'm a good girl

78. Lost  glasses/contacts =  nope, I have a good eyesight. haha

79. Sex  on first date = NO

80. Broke  someone's heart = wa nay uso sa ako

81. Had  your own heart broken = nop

82. Been  arrested = never

83. Turned  someone down = don't know

84. Cried  when someone died = syempre

85. Fallen  for a friend = no.

2020

76. Kissed  a stranger = nope!

77. Drank  hard liquor = I tried San Mig Light and Red Horse once…  Haha. Realized how distorted my thinking about alcohol was way before. It’s not that bad to drink, but you have to know your limits. Drink moderately. I mean, I even go with friends when they drink, although I usually take the listener/watcher role. It’s  fun to talk and laugh about anything under the moon!

78. Lost  glasses/contacts =  nope, I have a good eyesight. Haha. Still holds  true, now.

79. Sex  on first date = No

80. Broke  someone's heart = I think so?

81. Had  your own heart broken = Yes! Part of growing up!

82. Been  arrested = never

83. Turned  someone down = Yes?

84. Cried  when someone died = syempre

85. Fallen  for a friend = no.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

2011

86. Yourself =  sometimes

87. Miracles =  way-e-es!

88. Love  at first sight =  I don't think so

89. Heaven =  YEAAAH!

90. Santa  Claus = sauna.

91. Kiss  on the first date = nope

92. Angels =  yeah!

2020

86. Yourself =  We have to. Otherwise, we’ll get nowhere.

87. Miracles =  YES! Our lives are a miracle! I witnessed a great miracle when I faced my  first ever surgery. God was there. God is here.

88. Love  at first sight =  I think this has changed. I kind of believe this now, but not absolutely.

89. Heaven =  YEAAAH!

90. Santa  Claus = sauna.

91. Kiss  on the first date = depends? hahaha

92. Angels =  yeah

That’s it! The 18-year old me vs. the 27- year old me. Some have changed, some have also remained the same. We grow up. Our view about life changes. But one thing constant among these is the love of family and of God. 

If you’re still reading up to this point, I suggest you make one as well. It’s a great exercise to know yourself better. You realize things you have never actually thought of before. Enjoy answering! Stay safe!

[shvdxs]

but you know that this is useless

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you? yeah but we do be workin on that

2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you? not really only when im woken up in the middle of the night fearing for my life

3. The person you would never want to meet? oh you know

4. What is your favorite word? peruse deadass

5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be? womping willow i want mfs to nap under me

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought? yike!

7. What shirt are you wearing? black noodie

8. What do you label yourself as? tired

9. Bright room or dark room? dark

10. What were you doing at midnight last night? i couldn’t sleep because of the thunder so i went on my home computer and went through the pictures from my mom’s camera and came across some pictures i didn’t know existed bc i’d been looking for pictures from my 2016 twirp bc k8 and i looked hot as shit but i only had 2 pictures??? 

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far? i think 16 i “glowed up” whatever the fuck that means from being emo but 17-18 was absolutely the happiest years of my life until everything went down hill my sophomore year of college and then shit got better the beginning of my senior year and then it went DOWNHILL FAST but then my roommate and i became best friends and i got close with my homies from work and everything was getting great right before i turned 22 and then bam shit got bad because RONA

12. Who told you they loved you last? my mama like 2 minutes ago

13. Your worst enemy? trump, i think the only person that’s fucked up my life is my grandmother, however there’s a couple of people i know that deserve a hexin

14. What is your current desktop picture? its changing kitten pictures

15. Do you like someone? nah

16. The last song you listened to? the song that was last played on my spotify was boy bye

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up? trump fUCK him UP im SO SICK and TIRED

18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face? ^^^^^ + (null) and maybe (null)

19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do? anyone i’ve absolutely babied and slaved over in my life out of pure love that fed off that and left

20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional) height and legs fucking duh, unfortunately ive got wide ribs and no snatched waist but im model status at this point

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do? i genuinely cannot answer that

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it? uh my hands are doubled jointed and im oddly flexible

23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of? facial tattoos

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal. i hate sandwiches but say i had to eat one................ subway BMT w provolone with every vegetable on white

25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it? fuckin rent bc Mizz Rona

26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go? i mean AFTER mizz rona i’d like to go to fucking europe, specifically greece or norway. or just straight to australia fuck it

27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be? i read heaven and said i gotta go then saw alcohol. the switch i made was incredible. mojito. i want a blueberry mojito.

28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place? animal crossing????? my rule is no uglies

29. What is your favorite expletive? excuse me

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno? if it’s my apartment im grabbing my laptop because i have homework due assuming my phone is in my pants

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be? WOW! PLEASE! i beg of you

32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world! norway bye

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back? we been knew death is a homie, however i’d bring back (out of all of my favorite artists) epstein for the tea

34. What was your last dream about? uh i took a nap which usually leads to lucid dreams so i started dreaming that i was vomiting and then it switched to a lucid dream so i was like gross imma spit it out and then i realized i was in my dorm so i was like wait let me do some rad shit but then i woke up drooling

35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]? no. im not good at anything.

36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital? yeE

37. Have you ever built a snowman? of course

38. What is the color of your socks? grey rn

39. What type of music do you like? i like emo shit

40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets? sunset

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor? mint chocolate baby

42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer) i dont watch football but bears bc im from chi

43. Do you have any scars? on god

44. What do you want to be when you graduate? i wanna go to grad school but MIZZ RONA

45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? my brain, i know id be successful in so many realms with my interests and goals but i have so many setbacks and fears and mental illnesses that it keeps me back but i do be pushin thru

46. Are you reliable? i try to be

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be? how far into the future tho

48. Do you hold grudges? unfortunately noooo but that’s because im passive and fear loosing people

49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create? cat and owl lemme see her

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had? dont even know where to start

51. Are you a good liar? lmao yeah my mom turned me into a straight faced liar

52. How long could you go without talking? i’ve gone days

53. What has been you worst haircut/style? rn. fucking rn. they cut my hair so short i want to die.

54. Have you ever baked your own cake? so many times

55. Can you do any accents other than your own? of course

56. What do you like on your toast? butter and cinnamon sugar yall know what i mean

57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of? i miss drawing, but i played telestrations after dark and im p sure it was “spermicide” and i ended up having to draw someone shooting a dick with a gun

58. What would be you dream car? ooooo, okay i’d die for a mercedes SLS or a jaguar F-type 

59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain. i vibe

60. Do you believe in aliens? of course

61. Do you often read your horoscope? its funny tho so a lot

62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet? X

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons? dragons bc they aren’t real

64. What do you think about babies? NO. i cannot with the noise. the clean up. disgusting. yall sacrificing too much to wipe shit and silence children.

[deadcactuswalking]

REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 27th October 2019

Top 10

For the fourth consecutive week, “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I reigns at the top of the UK Top 40, which is still impressive to me as I see little appeal in the song but it is starting to grow on me a bit. I could see myself finding this pretty damn good in the foreseeable future, but for now I don’t really have a strong opinion on it, and my opinion could sway either way by the end of the year.

Yeah, this is a pretty slow week, as you can tell by our top 10, at least the top half. “Ride It” by Regard featuring Jay Sean is a non-mover at the runner-up spot.

“Circles” by Post Malone has a new peak at number-three, up one space from last week.

Up three spaces this week into the top five at number-four is potential future #1, “South of the Border” by Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello and Cardi B. I hope this doesn’t hit #1 but I feel like it’s inevitable.

“HIGHEST IN THE ROOM” by Travis Scott is surprisingly stable at number-five.

Lewis Capaldi’s “Bruises” has a single push up three spaces to number-six.

“Outnumbered” by Dermot Kennedy has an unexpected one-space fall down to number-seven, probably thanks to the rise of “Bruises” and “South of the Border”.

I guess our first interesting song of note here is “Buss Down” by Aitch featuring ZieZie, as the song enters the top 10 after a three-space boost to number-eight. It becomes Aitch’s fourth UK Top 10 hit and ZieZie’s first ever. Congratulations, even if I’m not a fan of the song.

“Be Honest” by Jorja Smith featuring Burna Boy is down a space to number-nine.

Oh, and a shocking nine-space increase for “Memories” by Maroon 5 leads it to #10, which astonished me. Regardless, it’s Adam Levine’s eleventh UK Top 10 success with the support of his “band”, and I can’t really complain. The song’s inoffensive.

Climbers

There isn’t much here to care about, in fact there’s barely anything notable here. MEDUZA, Goodboys and Becky Hill are up 18 spaces off of the debut with “Lose Control” at #15, which was unexpected, but when the chart is weak and stagnant it’s not really a surprise that uninteresting songs will have success: see “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi hitting #1 in the US. Elsewhere on the chart, “Playing Games” by Summer Walker with an extended version featuring Bryson Tiller is up six positions to #24 out of nowhere, and “Graveyard” by Halsey is up seven spaces to #29 for whatever reason and I’m not exactly ecstatic about that, the song’s pathetic.

Fallers

Our climbers seem pitiful so there must be a lot of fallers, right? Well, no, it seems relatively quiet here too, although arguably our biggest news here comes from the collapse of Harry Styles’ lead single “Lights Up”, which I found to be very disappointing and increasingly dull, down eight spaces off of the #3 debut to #11, which is pretty concerning for Harry’s new album roll-out. Also within the top 20 is “Take Me Back to London” by Ed Sheeran featuring Stormzy and remixed by Sir Spyro featuring Aitch and Jaykae, slowly making its way out, down five spaces to #19 this week. Speaking of smash hits exiting, “Senorita” by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello is down seven spots to #34 as well, and off of the debut, “47” by Sidhu Moose Wala, MIST, Steel Banglez and Stefflon Don, has taken a massive plunge down 21 spaces to #38. Other than that, there’s nothing to discuss here.

Dropouts & Returning Entries

There are some notable drop-outs here, most importantly “RAN$OM” by Lil Tecca finally exiting from #40, although I feel this might return to the top 40 sometime soon. These are pretty premature dropouts I’d like to say, although I may be underestimating the song’s longevity on the chart as these weeks do start to blend together. “How Do You Sleep?” by Sam Smith is out from #39, and thanks to streaming cuts and dumb UK chart rules, “Both” by Headie One is out from #13, but that’s all as there are no returning entries.

NEW ARRIVALS

#40 – “The Last Time” – The Script

Produced by Danny O’Donaghue, Jimbo Barry, Mark Sheehan and Samuel Tsang – Peaked at #1 in Scotland

The Script are a boyband turned semi-serious pop rock band, and I have no interest in them, but they’re always just... there, but I guess that also means that I have no complains towards them either. Using that flawed logic, I should be very excited for this new lead single and their eleventh UK Top 40 hit, but hence as the ancient scriptures foretold, I don’t care at all about this new single and there’s not much quality here to care about in the first place. This has actually been out for a while, and I understand how long it took to catch on as it’s not very unique, with some nondescript guitar behind Danny O’Donaghue’s pretty decent voice but not a particularly impressive showcase of their talents, especially since all of this instrumental sounds like a reverb-drowned FL Studio project file, yet the drums feel intrusive more often than not and the sequencing is off around the chorus, even if the section where the drums come in is kind of cool and reminiscent of the arena rock feel they really wanted to go for... but then O’Donaghue goes for a butchered triplet flow in the bridge... and, yeah, this isn’t good, but I don’t think it’s all that bad at least, it’s just I’m finding it difficult to write the description here, since there’s nothing out of the ordinary here for typical 2010s pop-rock. It sure is listenable, and I guess that’s better than it could be.

#33 – “This is Real” – Jax Jones featuring Ella Henderson

Produced by Jax Jones, Mark Ralph and Tommy Forest

Alright, this is pretty routine for us at this point. Jax Jones has a new single, it’s his eleventh to hit the UK Top 40, and it features a performance from Ella Henderson, who I personally haven’t heard of since “Ghost”, which is a pretty awesome song... but I’m still not excited for Henderson nabbing her sixth UK Top 40 hit, as I know she’ll make sure her performance is as generic as possible for another house-pop song. I’m actually pleasantly surprised here, since she didn’t, really. In fact, despite her vocals being heavily-processed, she does remind me of a 90s house diva, and I’m half-expecting her to belt “You’ve got to show me love” in the chorus, the beat on the other hand is nothing really special but the keys here are pretty nice and do a good job at elevating the beat with its cheap snare crashes to something that sounds pretty uplifting. The chorus and drop here are really joyful, actually, it sounds pretty fun and... that’s all I have to say. The post-chorus is a tad annoying though, but this isn’t bad at all and I’m glad Ella Henderson is back at least.

#30 – “hot girl bummer” – blackbear

produced by blackbear and fmid

this song is already at a higher peak in the uk than “hot girl summer” by megan thee stallion, nicki minaj and ty dolla $ign. disgraceful.

oh yeah, i’ve ditched the capital letters this time. blackbear doesn’t need to put in effort, so i don’t think i need to. this song is a pathetic attempt from a talentless hack and nobody to capitalise on a genuine movement. but who cares about the politics and morality of the song’s existence purely to parody the #hotgirlsummer hashtag? let’s talk about the music. okay, it’s garbage. it’s a hot mess. blackbear appropriates the movement for a bitter kiss-off anthem, which he commands you to “throw a tantrum” to, even if this is far from danceable, in fact it’s a really mopey and slow song that somehow exceeds three minutes, which is impressive for blackbear, i guess. last time i talked about him was when “do re mi” featuring gucci mane was somehow a hit in 2017, and surprise, surprise, it’s equally terrible, but it at least has a memorable hook. here i’m left with very little to like. blackbear’s vocal performance, whilst heavily auto-tuned, is longing and desperate, making his posturing sound really sad, especially with the fake finger-snaps, vague “atmospheric” trap beat with a simple, lazy 808. throughout the song, blackbear just demeans this woman for three straight minutes, it’s really cruel but his emotionless triplet flow over this childish bells and synths as well as an out of place choir sample, makes there no excuse. Even with songs i don’t like that tackle this topic and vibe, like “i fall apart” by post malone, he doesn’t take the time about how he has drip or how you can’t “fit him in a trojan”. he has an actual bridge that doesn’t feel awkward going into that final chorus. he sounds, you know, awake, and has a lot of passion in his voice that makes his equally bitter and cruel lyrics sound meaningful, when they’re really not, but it at least adds substance and perhaps even context to the narrative. whilst on “hot girl bummer”...

got an emo chick that’s broken

..what. yeah, skip this song – it’s a pretty dreadful attempt at capitalising on a trend by promoting awful, worthless trap-rap, yet somehow it charted in the top 40, his first song to do so in the uk. again, disgraceful.

Edit: listening again that choir sample is even more egregious. like really what was the point of that?

Conclusion

I guess “This is Real” is somewhat decent in comparison to pop-rock fluff and... whatever that last song is, so Jax Jones and Ella Henderson get Best of the Week here, while blackbear definitely gets Worst of the Week for “hot girl bummer”, which just makes me sick every time I hear it. Follow me on Twitter @cactusinthebank for more musical ramblings and I’ll see you next week!

[nathanielwharton]

My 2017 in Pop Culture

Same deal as usual. This is what meant most to me last year in pop culture.

Top Forty Things From 2017

40. The Mummy I liked it. It's definitely got the worked-over vibe that people most object to in these shared-universe experiments, and it goes a little bigger and more action-heavy than I'd probably prefer for a Universal Monster movie. But, I liked the way it fused a modern Tom Cruise narrative with a traditional monster story. I liked the genuine horror movie flourishes throughout. I liked the winks at monster fans in the Prodigium headquarters. I loved Sofia Boutella's Ahmanet. And I loved Russell Crowe's silly/creepy thug Mr. Hyde. This one also got bonus points for The Mummy: Dark Universe Stories, the iPhone game that came out a month after the film. The story plays out a sequel to the movie, but the real nerdy thrill of it was the way it incorporated a bunch of original Universal Monsters characters and ideas, including Lisa Glendon from Werewolf of London and Kharis and Boris Karloff's Ardeth Bay from the original Mummy movies! 39. Baby Driver This was just a delight, a combination of classic crime movie and classic musical with that Edgar Wright energy giving it that extra nitrous burst of excitement. 38. "Every Country Has a Monster" on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return I'm one of those fans who loved Mystery Science Theater 3000 when he stumbled across it on cable in the 90s but has a little trouble with the way it gave license to a certain sourness and superiority about older movies among some audiences. Still, I found myself looking forward to the revival with a little trepidation as to whether it would find the right tone (or recapture the lo-fi public access charm of the original). The first twenty minutes or so of the first episode back (focused on the Danish giant monster movie Reptilicus, so they were doing well by me right off the bat) were pretty promising, but this song about giant monsters of myth across the world was where I decided I was on board for this revival. 37. Happy Death Day What a fun time this was! It's got a really charming lead performance and a fun story hook, but it's really the energy and inventiveness that it applies to slasher movie/Groundhog Day story of self-improvement that put it over the top for me. 36. John Wick Chapter 2/Free Fire/Atomic Blonde Hard to pick from among the three of these in terms of which action movie I had the most fun with this year. They've all got something special to recommend them. 35. The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween This doesn't quite scale the heights of last year's Duck the Halls Christmas special, but it was still a funny, thoroughly delightful seasonal treat that I'll probably make a point of watching next October too. 34. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol. 1 I checked it out because I'd read it was a comic about a 10-year-old girl who was obsessed with monsters (picturing herself as a little wolfman) who tries to solve the murder of her neighbor. What I got was a moving story about historical injustice and personal revelation told with dazzling illustration. Really, this knocked me out. 33. Gemini/Murder on the Orient Express I think Gemini is actually going to be a 2018 release, but these two mystery films really scratched an itch for me this year. I was a big fan of director Aaron Katz's Cold Weather, a wonderful little mumblecore mystery story, but I wasn't prepared for how much I dug his twisty neo-noir, Gemini. And Murder on the Orient Express was kind of a similarly satisfying experience on the other end of the spectrum: a lavish, big-budget adaptation with a cast stocked with movie stars and exciting up-and-comers. I loved it, and now I'm all about seeing Branagh continue to work on his little proposed Agatha Christie universe. #thirtyBranaghPoirotmovies 32. Okja It's a new Bong Joon-ho film! That means it's got a bunch of thrilling filmmaking, wild performances, tricky tonal shifts, and a beautifully clear-eyed honest empathy. 31. The Get Down Season One, Part Two I was sorry to see this one cancelled after the still thrilling but also melancholy second half came out this year. I really fell in love with these characters, and it was always an exciting experience. And this was just one of the many Netflix shows I really loved this year (including Mindhunter, BoJack Horseman, Lady Dynamite, GLOW, Orange is the New Black, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). 30. The ending of Split I loved the rest of Split, and I was already onboard the M. Night Shyamalan comeback train from The Visit (after riding like five movies on the ���oh no, he’s lost it so bad!” train). But those surprising final moments of Split, while holding the potential for another dive into disastrous hubris, made me straight up gasp out loud in confusion & delight.

29. The Samurai Jack Revival/Finale I enjoyed a lot of the original run of Samurai Jack, but I wasn’t exactly a devoted viewer & hadn’t particularly missed it in its absence. So I checked out the revival largely just to see what the great Genndy Tartakovsky would to with it after spending time on other projects. And wow! It turned out not only to be a truly gorgeous & riveting experience, but it also took the characters & elements of the original & gave them some interesting psychology & moral challenges. 28. Nathan for You’s "Finding Frances" I love Nathan For You, but this year’s season finale, “Finding Frances,” was probably the most interesting thing he’s done with the format. In some ways it’s basically Nathan For You: The Movie, finding a sprawling emotional journey, still filled with nutball comic cul de sacs, that also digs into the “Nathan” character & finds a new place to take him by the end. 27. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Season One I figured I’d check out the first season, despite the fact that it would mostly be covering the same material covered in the totally decent Jim Carrey movie, because I was interested to see Barry Sonnenfield finally get a shot at the material & because I wanted to see what they’d do with the later books. But from the first moments with Patrick Warburton’s Serling-esque take on Lemony Snicket (and that infectious theme song) I fell in love with the show. The cast is great, the adaptation work is clever and involving (including an ingenious side story with Will Arnett & Cobie Smulders that seems brilliantly designed to provide different-but-complementary experiences for fans and non-fans), and I stress again how much I loved Warburton. There’s also a wonderful flourish in the season finale that amped my love into adoration. 26. A Cure For Wellness If Gore Verbinski can keep getting people to give him huge budgets to make big, weird genre films about the rot at the center of capitalism and western civilization, I will keep seeing them and (presumably) loving them. 25. Opening sequence of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets The rest of the movie is a colorful bit of fun, but the opening sequence where we see, via montage, the establishment and development of the titular city of a thousand planets, is as sublime and moving a movie moment as any I saw this year. Thrillingly optimistic and hopeful, Besson briefly hits on something more than his usual enjoyably daffy nonsense. 24. Final seasons of The Leftovers & Vice Principals Two HBO shows I loved aired their final seasons this year. Both of them had set themselves up with particularly tricky tasks in providing satisfying resolutions without either ruining the mystique of what had come before or pulling their punches in a way that impacted the whole. And they both nailed it. 23. A Ghost Story I wrote about this one for SportsAlcohol.com. I found it bewitching and it stayed with me. 22. Star Trek: Discovery It was a long wait, but this new Star Trek show pretty immediately justified my subscription to yet another streaming service all on its own. I love the characters, I’m engrossed in the storytelling, and I’m challenged by the moral and intellectual ideas it’s exploring. Good Star Trek. (This also may as well be where I mention that I also watched, and pretty much enjoyed, the whole first season of Seth Macfarlane’s generic brand Trek cover, The Orville. Pretty well scratches whatever old school Trek itch Discovery could have left me with.) 21. Wormwood I love most everything of his that I’ve seen, but this is basically in competition with Tabloid for my favorite Errol Morris project.

20. Gorogoa Feels almost silly that I found what basically amounts to a puzzle game for my phone so entrancing & even spiritual. But I LOVED this thing. My only complaint is that it wished it kept going and going. 19. DuckTales Wrote about this for SportsAlcohol.com. A testament to how delightful this show is can be found in the fact that I put it in this slot instead of the also hugely enjoyable Milo Murphy’s Law. 18. Marvel Cinematic Universe While this year I definitely cooled on the Marvel television offerings (I still watched and enjoyed the Netflix shows despite some underwhelmed feelings, and I'm still pretty high on Agents of SHIELD, but Inhumans was a total misfire), it was perhaps the best year yet for Marvel Studios's cinematic offerings. I totally loved Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Thor Ragnarok. They each offered something fairly distinct and emotionally engaging (even Ragnarok, despite it's hilariously cheeky tone) and they were all a complete blast. Best Guardians yet, best Spider-man yet, best Thor yet! 17. Lady Bird Between 2016’s Edge of Seventeen and this,  guess I’m gonna hope for a wonderful teen girl coming-of-age movie every other year. And thanks to Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and the idiosyncratic empathy of Greta Gerwig, this one was a true highlight of 2017. 16. Get Out The terrific horror-themed sketches on Key & Peele suggested a genuine feel for the genre, so it wasn’t a huge reach to expect Jordan Peele’s directorial debut horror movie to turn out well. But this one still felt like a revelation at the beginning of the year (not to mention a huge event when seen with an audience). 15. Your Name Another wonderful surprise, this one makes some clever and twisty shifts as what starts out as a charming body-switching comedy reveals an emotional core that really swept me away. 14. War for the Planet of the Apes I wrote about this one for SportsAlcohol.com. 13. Blade Runner 2049 I also wrote about this one for SportsAlcohol.com. 12. The Post I wrote about this for SportsAlcohol.com too! 11. Coco Look, I’m generally less excited about Pixar’s sequels than I am about its originals (and I generally really like or love their sequels! but still...), and Coco is a perfect example of why. It’s a great story with a bunch of lovable new characters, beautiful new worlds, and the fun of seeing something new. And as is often the case, it also packs a real emotional wallop. 10. S-Town Speaking of emotional wallops, this podcast miniseries was already shaping up to be an involving look at a fascinating character, but a bombshell dropped in an early episode spins the thing into something deeper and more powerful than anything else I listened to this year.

9. Colossal Wrote about this for SportsAlcohol.com. 8. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel While this show has many things that set it apart from the other Amy Sherman-Palladino shows I love (namely Gilmore Girls & Bunheads), it does share the qualities of being unstoppably effervescent and entertaining while offering hidden depths. We gulped the whole season down in two plane rides and can’t wait for the next batch. 7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi Wrote about the movie on SportsAlcohol.com. It was another good Star Wars year in general, with some excellent Star Wars Rebels episodes, the continuation of the fantastic Marvel comics, and some cool novels (generally I didn't read any bad Star Wars books this year, so that's good; personal highlights were Aftermath: Empire's End and Leia: Princess of Alderaan). But the real highlight was, of course, the movie. It was a joyful, powerful experience opening night (in a way that felt interestingly different from the experience of The Force Awakens), and it’s a movie that has lingered and deepened in my mind as I’ve thought about it. 6. The Shape of Water I run pretty hot and lukewarm on Guillermo del Toro (that is to say, I don’t particularly dislike any of his movies, but while I love some of them, others just don’t connect like I feel they should, despite how much the separate elements might appeal to me). But for every one that I just like okay, he connects with something like this, a gorgeous, perverse fairy tale retelling of the Creature From the Black Lagoon with tributes to Cold War paranoia, classic movie musicals, and a great Michael Shannon performance added to the mix. Just a lovely tribute to the way love can unite the disenfranchised and overlooked. 5. Kong: Skull Island An eye-popping fever dream of a monster mash, this movie assembled a stacked cast of actors I love and surrounded them with some of the most stunning monster movie images I’ve ever seen. A++++infinity 4. Stranger Things 2 What a wonderful surprise the first season of this show was, and what a relief and a joy to get this sequel that is, in most ways, even better. By the final scenes of the finale, I was more in love than ever. 3. The Florida Project I wrote a bit about this for SportsAlcohol.com, so I think it’s enough to say here that this is a very special movie. 2. American Vandal What a wonderful little surprise this was! Like Stranger Things last year, this was something that popped up on Netflix & gave me something I didn’t know I wanted. On one level, it’s just a silly, dirty joke really elaborately told. But on another level, it’s a sneakily moving portrait of the way that expectations and choices made when you’re young can really impact what you become in that transition from teenager to adult.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return I was looking forward to this, and I had a pretty open mind as far as what it could be or what to expect from it. But I still had no idea how amazing and immersive and gripping it would all be. I wrote about it over at SportsAlcohol.com and talked about it on the podcast and I STILL only scratched the surface of how I felt about it.

Top Twenty Things I'm Excited About in 2018

Arrested Development Returns! I adored both the original run of the show and the fourth season that hit Netflix five years ago. I cannot wait for this. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs It's the new Coen brothers project. And it's supposed to be something like six hours of new Coen brothers project. Holy smokes. The Last Best Story I really loved Maggie's last book, and the tidbits I've heard about this one make it sound terrific. Been anticipating this one for nearly three years and it's almost here! Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson movies pretty much automatically quality as "most anticipated" for me, and the trailer for this one looks thoroughly delightful. And it hopefully augurs an exciting year for stop motion animation. While I'm obviously into The Incredibles II and Ralph Wrecks the Internet, I'm even more intrigued with the untitled Laika film scheduled for this year. There's been so little news about it, it seems possible it won't actually hit this year, but even if it doesn't there's Early Man, a new Aardman film directed by Nick Park due out in February, and Jan Svankmajer's final film, Insects, that I hope makes its way to the US this year. Ready Player One I'm sure I'd see this one no matter what, but the fact that Steven Spielberg directed it means I'm actively excited to catch it on day one. Marvel Cinematic Universe After a stellar 2017 (and all the goodwill they built up over the last ten years in general) I'd be excited for their three pictures this year. So the fact that they've got Black Panther (a terrific cast in Ryan Coogler's follow-up to Creed!), Avengers: Infinity War (the beginning of this big two-year culmination event, written & directed by the folks who made my beloved Captain America movies), and Ant-Man and the Wasp (I had a great time with the first one, and Down With Love guarantees Peyton Reed my attention forever), gives me confidence that they'll have another great year in 2018. Star Wars I'm forever excited about Star Wars (or at least the current firehose volume of it still hasn't made me bored of it yet) so I'm pretty interested to see Solo: A Star Wars Story, and I'm also really on the hook to see the final batch of episodes of Star Wars Rebels. Roseanne Revival Maybe I'm just tempting fate because of how the Twin Peaks revival turned out, but I'm excited for this one. I love the original show (one of my favorite little things about getting cable has been that Roseanne is on one channel or another almost all the time) and I'm equally apprehensive about and intrigued by the news that's come out about the revival so far. But I'll definitely be watching the whole thing. Lethal White AND Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald A new Cormoran Strike book and a new Wizarding World movie with a screenplay by J.K. Rowling! I understand why neither of them are exactly the kind of cultural event that the Potter books and movies were, but I'm personally so excited for both. A Wrinkle in Time AND Mary Poppins Returns Two big Disney productions that are super up my alley, so I'm grouping them together. Wrinkle promises an adaptation of a wonderful book from an exciting director and a fantastic cast. And Poppins has the liability of a director I've been extremely mixed on in the past, but it also has a perfect cast and the original Mary Poppins is a movie a really love deeply. Really excited to have these bookending the year. A New Cloverfield The God Particle was on this list last year, and it's on there again this year. We're only a couple of weeks into the year and it's already been delayed again, so this is in hopes that it does really come out this April. But in any case, with God Particle and Overlord, another mysterious genre film from Bad Robot that fans have been speculating could be another Cloverfield movie, both scheduled for release this year, seems pretty likely we'll at least get one new Cloverfield picture. (UPDATE SINCE I WROTE THIS: the game is afoot again!) Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters It's got a killer premise and it's just hit Netflix! I'm excited for this one, and it seems possible that the second film in the announced trilogy could also hit Netflix before the end of the year. New Darin Morgan X-Files episode The new season of the X-Files revival already seems off to a stronger start than the last one, but no matter what it does hold the promise of another new episode by writer Darin Morgan. This is an event. Disenchantment Look, I still watch (and usually enjoy) The Simpsons. I adore Futurama. I am super excited for a new Matt Groening animated series, and tickled by the notion that it'll explore a new genre. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol. 2 The first half of the story was such a beautiful, engrossing, moving surprise this year, that I can't wait for the follow-up. Sense8 Finale Movie I'm glad they're getting a chance to wrap things up the way they want to here, and I'm looking forward to one more visit with this nutty, beautiful show. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman AND Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee I don't keep up with all of Netflix's stand-up comedy offerings or the like, but I am super excited for these talk shows by a couple of my absolute favorite comedy curmudgeons. I actually watched (and really loved) the episode of Letterman's show with President Obama, and I'm looking forward to getting through all the rest of both of these throughout this year. Mute It looks like Duncan Jones's new film, some kind of spiritual follow-up to his great Moon, is finally going to show up on Netflix early this year! And they've also got the next films by Gareth Evans, Jeremy Saulnier, and David Mackenzie that could always drop sometime this year AND The Other Side of the Wind, a lost Orson Welles film! The Predator A new Shane Black movie is a cause for celebration, and while trying to revive the Predator seems like a dicey proposition, he's assembled an exciting cast and co-wrote the film with his Monster Squad collaborator Fred Dekker, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they've cooked up enough to put it here instead of the other genre sequels I'm intrigued by this year (like David Gordon Green's Halloween or J.A. Bayona's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom). The Happytime Murders A Roger Rabbit riff with puppets would be enough to get my attention, but get Brian Henson to direct it in his first theatrical feature since his Muppet films from the 90s and I'm fully excited.

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1. What is you middle name?jeezus, its a strong middle name to match my strong first name
2. How old are you?20 but im bout to be twenty fun in a month and two days mf
3. When is your birthday?september 8th!!!
4. What is your zodiac sign?virgang 🤙
5. What is your favorite color?pink af
6. What’s your lucky number?i don’t have a “lucky” number but i fuck w the number 6 pretty heavy
7. Do you have any pets?a rat lookin dog named sophie who hates me
8. Where are you from?good ol indiana
9. How tall are you?5'5", 5'4" somewhere in there
10. What shoe size are you?8.5 in women’s if anyone wants to buy me nice expensive shoes
11. How many pairs of shoes do you own?prolly like 7 hahaha
12. What was your last dream about?better question, when was the last time i had a dream? 
13. What talents do you have?i can wiggle my nose like the witch in bewitched, i can smoke a pack and a half in a day, i can drum on my steering wheel pretty good
14. Are you psychic in any way?i dont think so some situations are j painfully predictable
15. Favorite song?perth x bon iver, easy
16. Favorite movie?tarzan bitch i havent watched it in a long time tho
17. Who would be your ideal partner?anyone that doesn’t get angry w me when i’m too anxious 
18. Do you want children?YES so fucking bad
19. Do you want a church wedding?nope that would make no sense
20. Are you religious?no i really tried to be, like i went to many different churches and youth groups and those camp things but it always j felt like i was trying to integrate myself into a fantasy like i think i was j trying too hard to feel something that i don’t think i can
21. Have you ever been to the hospital?4 times in the psychiatric ward, once in the er, once for surgery
22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law?yeah fuck that im never doing that shit again
23. Have you ever met any celebrities?just a lot of bands hahaha
24. Baths or showers?showers because baths are boring and gross and you usually gotta shower along w a bath if youre tryna get clean so thas a waste of water
25. What color socks are you wearing?im barefoot rn its summertime g
26. Have you ever been famous?nope and i am grateful for that bc i can still say whatever i want on the internet and no sjws come at me all nutty
27. Would you like to be a big celebrity?no way i love privacy and freedom
28. What type of music do you like?i like a lot of different shit including rap and country but lately ive only really been vibing to bryson tiller and frank ocean
29. Have you ever been skinny dipping?nope that would be a big mistake
30. How many pillows do you sleep with?two!
31. What position do you usually sleep in?on my stomach, one leg bent upwards, both arms under the pillows
32. How big is your house?its small af it has no basement but its cozy
33. What do you typically have for breakfast?four camel crush menthols and whatever drink is on my side table
34. Have you ever fired a gun?not an actual gun but a bb gun for sure
35. Have you ever tried archery?yeah once on a field trip in like….4th grade
36. Favorite clean word?i dont think i have one anymore
37. Favorite swear word?shit
38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep?very close to 48 hours and it fucking sucked
39. Do you have any scars?tons but the ones on my hands are fading so shouts out to that
40. Have you ever had a secret admirer?if i did it really was a secret cuz i didnt know
41. Are you a good liar?im really good at hiding things but dont ask me abt them bc then i’ll have to tell you
42. Are you a good judge of character?my track record says no
43. Can you do any other accents other than your own?i do accents all the fucking time its damn near annoying
44. Do you have a strong accent?uhhh probably to people not from this area hahaha
45. What is your favorite accent?spanish or indian
46. What is your personality type?enfj which is crazy cuz when i took the myers briggs in high school i was an istj
47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing?my gold superstars
48. Can you curl your tongue?yep i got them good genes
49. Are you an innie or an outie?innie bye
50. Left or right handed?right handed boi
51. Are you scared of spiders?i dont want them to touch me under any circumstances but i dont go out of my way to hurt them
52. Favorite food?mac and cheese but only when its made in specific ways alright creamy mac and cheese is fucked up
53. Favorite foreign food?do tacos count
54. Are you a clean or messy person?messy even when i wanna be clean
55. Most used phrased?right now its probably “damn near”, “deadass”, or “by any means”
56. Most used word?you gotta ask like dani or tori or sum 
57. How long does it take for you to get ready?15 minutes
58. Do you have much of an ego?lowkey kind of. sometimes i really think im the best
59. Do you suck or bite lollipops?suck for a lil, then bite bc suckers take forever to eat and theyre boring
60. Do you talk to yourself?all day everyday no matter where i am
61. Do you sing to yourself?no but i do hum a lot
62. Are you a good singer?no i probably was like semi decent before i started smoking a bunch of shit all the time and lost my lung capacity
63. Biggest Fear?dying. i never understood that fear until i felt it
64. Are you a gossip?yeah i love talking abt what people are doing 
65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen?american beauty
66. Do you like long or short hair?on who? long on me, short on my rat dog sophie
67. Can you name all 50 states of America?yeah b my middle school choir teacher didnt teach us the song for nothin
68. Favorite school subject?english always
69. Extrovert or Introvert?extrovert i need social interaction to function like a human
70. Have you ever been scuba diving?nope and i never will bc i am afraid
71. What makes you nervous?whatever you can think of. thats what makes me nervous
72. Are you scared of the dark?yes if i cant be 100% aware of whats around me im losing my shit
73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes?
i used to do it allll the fuckin time like to the point where my friends were getting really upset abt it and then i grew up

74. Are you ticklish?nope thank god
75. Have you ever started a rumor?uh no but one time a gurl i was half friends w was telling ppl i was spreading rumors saying her grandpa died? which is really nutty 
76. Have you ever been in a position of authority?everyday i go to work! 
77. Have you ever drank underage?just last night, in fact. but im barely underage at this point
78. Have you ever done drugs?no? that doesnt sound like something i would do
79. Who was your first real crush?real crush?? uhhhh im not sure ive like experienced that like ive thought i liked a LOT of dudes
80. How many piercings do you have?9, 3 in each ear, both nostrils, and my septum
81. Can you roll your Rs?“no :-(
82. How fast can you type?pretty fast, prolly not as fast as i used to though
83. How fast can you run?hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
84. What color is your hair?like four different shades of blonde
85. What color is your eyes?blue/grey
86. What are you allergic to?nothing that i’m aware of!!!
87. Do you keep a journal?no and i really fucking wish i did
88. What do your parents do?like as far as work? my dad works at a factory, my mom works at a place that sells pumps
89. Do you like your age?i dont care abt it 
90. What makes you angry?wasting time!!! nothing in this whole world makes me angrier than feeling like im not using my time to its full potential
91. Do you like your own name?hell no
92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they?yes i have but only for girls bc boy names are ugly and im not sharing them bc i dont want anybody finessin
93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child?id be ecstatic w either but i always imagine a girl
94. What are you strengths?im really empathetic, im funny asf to myself, i know some big words
95. What are your weaknesses?im really empathetic, when im not on lithium im hella obsessive and angry
96. How did you get your name?mom found it in a baby book
97. Were your ancestors royalty?no but they all tell me im related to president zachary taylor
98. Do you have any scars?uh yah i already told you
99. Color of your bedspread?rn its j grey
100. Color of your room?pink/purple!!

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