#how many times do i say vibes here

[bzedan]

Ah, July. Not the hottest month (that is August or September), but it is very a Summer Month. June is mostly (and technically is like two thirds?) a Late Spring Month, but in July summer has arrived and they are decked out in sparkles and sweating everywhere triumphantly.

So I wanted songs about water and outer space and agitation between chill summer vibes and snappy summer bops. There's some new music on there, including the single from CRJ's latest, which I ADORE. More neo-disco please! OH also enjoy the best possible cover of Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf," it's jazz. This is very a playlist to half-ignore while lazing about something else, it's all vibes, can be put on shuffle, and some of the songs'll grab ya, but who knows which on which playthrough.

Related media to some of the songs:

Just listening to Masstor's "Self Control" you might not realise that it's being sung by a giant blue orc? monster? guy in the most amazing creature/costume build (he's got so much available movement! it looks like Not A Bitch to get in and out of!), but here's the music video so you can experience the entirety of the vibes.

Janelle Monáe's The Age of Pleasure is such a killer summer album, the vibes in the "Waterslide" music video are fabulous, and please do check out the other videos for this album, it feels like they just rented a sick house for a weekend and knocked all the videos out while cavorting poolside.

Jim Sullivan's U.F.O. is a household favourite, and his story is a sad and semi-mysterious one. It's one of those "you hope it was a miracle... but probably not" situations.

There are multiple Bart Graft tracks on here, big recommend as background music for working, it's dance stuff but often chill. It's all vibes, I love it.

Anyway here's a link to July's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below the cut.

And embedded if you like that sort of thing:

'The Swimming Song' - Loudon Wainwright III  

'Pool Party' - Rudy Willingham  

'Spaceship' - Kesha  

'Give Us the Wind' - Future Islands  

'U.F.O.' - Jim Sullivan  

'Under the Boardwalk' - The Drifters  

'Turn Off the Lights' - LEN  

'The Visitors' - ABBA  

'Shy Boy' - Carly Rae Jepsen  

'Only Love Can Save Us Now' - Kesha  

'Season in Hell' - Dum Dum Girls  

'Self Control' - MASSTOR  

'Kokomo' - The Beach Boys  

'Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) - Single Version' - Enya  

'Good Vibrations' - Brian Wilson  

'Like Whiskey' - Dixon Dallas  

'Is It Cold In The Water?' - SOPHIE  

'Water Slide' - Janelle Monáe  

'Waterpark Inmersion' - El Guincho  

'Under the Water Fountain' - Bart Graft  

'Worship' - Ari Abdul  

'On the Water' - Future Islands  

'Gespaard's Poolside' - Bart Graft  

'Carry On, Turn Me On' - Space  

'As We Go Up, We Go Down' - Guided By Voices  

'Heroes and Villains' - Brian Wilson  

'Sunshine' - Oliver Tree  

'Vitamin C - 2004 Remastered Version' - CAN  

'Beam Me Up' - Midnight Magic  

'If You Love Me - Si Me Quieres' - Tito & Tarantula  

'Happy - Live Acoustic From Space' - Kesha  

'In My Blood' - Vitamin String Quartet  

'Brand New Key' - Melanie  

'Mellow Yellow' - Donovan  

'Hungry Like the Wolf' - Dinah Eastwood  

'I'm in Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop' - Brian Wilson

'Let's Go Swimming' - Arthur Russell  

'Grease' - Future Islands  

'Sliver Of Ice' - ANOHNI  

'Temba, Tumba Y Timba' - Los Van Van  

'Motivate Ya (feat. Kelly Price)' - Big Freedia  

'In the Summertime' - Mungo Jerry  

'Underwater' - Sun's Signature  

'Steal My Sunshine' - LEN  

'Good Lookin'' - Dixon Dallas  

'Come For Me' - Sunflower Bean  

'Summer's Cauldron - Remastered 2001' - XTC  

'The Girl from Ipanema' - Astrud Gilberto  

'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire - From "A Small Light: Episode 3"' - Sharon Van Etten  

'Moon Journey' - Mort Garson  

'The Night Terrors - Saint Etienne Mix' - Matt Berry  

'Under Pressure' - Queen  

'Welcome To My Island' - Caroline Polachek  

'Down By the Sea' - Men At Work  

'One & Only' - Oliver Tree  

[goodobservationshirley]

As you saved [my life]. Our scales are balanced. No. No, you’ve done far more than that for me. I’d all but given up. But you, you believed in me. You saw strength in me. You pushed me to heights that no one else could have.

[carpisuns]

theOrEticalLy . if I opened commissions at some point. would there be. a smackerel of interest . ??

[keeps-ache]

the worst thing that has come out of me losing every art file from this year is that i can't just eyedrop palettes now. the world is agony

[heffrondriving]

soooo. that new big time rush album huh

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Kinda funny how still in 2023, people call Mabel the worst character of Gravity Falls simply because she acts like a 12 year old child, but they silent as hell when it comes to Dipper.

[spotsupstuff]

ur grading people and if they get an f theyre blocked? my main you aint a kindergarten teacher this is a microblogging platform

yeah, that's why there's that function called blocking! :) cuz this is a microblogging site! that's what microblogging platforms have! :) so you don't have to put up with people's shit! :) interesting that kindergarten teachers where you live are capable of blocking people in real life, hope you had fun with that

[femmeroi]

kill yourself faggot

Our relationship is rough right now, but in a few episodes we will be married.

[vermillioncrown]

pretty sure your snare trap has math for cheese

you'd think so. i thought so, too--but no one talks to me about the actual math from my fanfic (me getting hurt feelings from everyone fixating on 'bruce wayne batman dating' rather than chasing the 'data regression' -> 'fast fourier transform' -> 'dick grayson is a former mathlete about to read korvin to filth', but i fucking did it to myself and know it)

actual math/stem people more knowledgeable than me take one look and go "lmao poser" and ignore it

laymen read my fic and don't care beyond the spectacle

i think the math acts like a filter. you either vibe w my processes (which cannot be separated from how i write) or you [x] immediately

[joons]

"[Elvis] always appreciated compliments rendered him, the gifts he received or the considerations extended to him. Only when he thought an ulterior motive was behind the act, did he withhold his feeling."

!!!

[cupidsbloom]

hiiiiiii omg <3333 hello !!!!!! (happy anniversary 2 my bestie malachi [ @waams ]!!!!!!!!!)

[godzexperiment]

~going to be mushy an moment~ okay but like i'm so glad i made this blog; like holy fuck I adore everybody so much. like i love the writing styles, vast arrays of kickass muses and just aaaaa

[softly-and-suddenly]

We need to start bullying people who organize their bookshelves by color actually

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Oh my god is today Thanksgiving??

[all-seeing-ifer]

putting together that list of good queer Jo March posts naturally got me thinking about lw 2019 again and. ok, this isn’t going to be a Me Making Smart Points Post as much as just me indulging in my favourite activity of trying to articulate my own tastes to myself so don’t expect me to say anything particularly coherent. basically i’ve just been mulling over lw 2019 and the ok! revival and why it is that these two things in particularly resonated with me On An Aro Level in a way that most media never does. and I think it really is just that like. they’re both adaptations/retellings of texts that have these very capital T Traditional Happy Endings where the happy ending is marriage and all the men and women must be paired up, and both these new versions are, in some sense, engaging with that aspect very directly. and also, importantly to me, they both end up treating that aspect of their source material in the most cynical way imaginable lmao. it’s just that they end up still being wildly different approaches bc in lw 2019 this manifests as the film very firmly taking the stance of “this whole ideal is complete bullshit and you should just do whatever” whereas the ok revival engages with it through this mildly pretentious tragic horror-infused The Narrative Is A Prison From Which You Cannot Escape approach which. i mean it’s obviously way less hopeful (like love and light to daniel fish but maybe it’s a good thing I never got into the revival back in 2019 when it went vaguely mainstream i do not think i was in a place in my life where it would have done productive things to my psyche), BUT it does also manage to be deranged in a way which appeals to my current Tragedy Enjoyer Girlie sensibilities.

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

bad energy in this classroom this week. chi is off. people are in the wrong places. i could kill myself.