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So here we are in the future. Another year is in the books and the end of 2019 marks a decade (on and off) of running this music blog. And while others have been spending time ruminating on their favorite music of the 2010s, I've decided to take this time to consider how to take this project into the future and build it into something I can truly be proud of. This means focusing my time on rolling out 2019 and moving forward on 2020 as soon as possible instead of trying to tackle a retrospective of the previous decade. My biggest regret in the past years has been my inability to stay current with the blog, rendering the main purpose of following it (staying up to date with new music) somewhat pointless. So with that said, here's hoping the next decade brings the motivation I need to write about my favorite songs as they drop so we can all enjoy them together. As I've always said, while I enjoy consuming music in full album form, I prefer writing about single songs, so What Else Is There?'s 100 Albums Of 2019 is just a list. However, please stay tuned for write ups and a playlist of my 100 Songs Of 2019 as they roll out over the coming days, and then let's see if we can't tackle 2020 (and beyond) together as it happens. Cheers.

> What Else Is There?'s 100 Albums Of 2019 <

1. Billy Strings - Home

2. Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1

3. Thee Oh Sees - Face Stabber

4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated

5. 100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs

6. The New Pornographers - In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights

7. Vampire Weekend - Father Of The Bride

8. Papir - VI

9. Aldous Harding - Designer

10. Charli XCX - Charli

11. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

12. Amon Tobin - Long Stories

13. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - And Now For The Whatchamacallit

14. Mark Ronson - Late Night Feelings

15. Caroline Polachek - Pang

16. Holly Herndon - Proto

17. Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet

18. Jenny Lewis - On The Line

19. She - Aspire

20. Cate Le Bon - Reward

21. Panda Bear - Buoys

22. James Blake - Assume Form

23. Thom Yorke - Anima

24. Beirut - Gallipoli

25. Steve Gun - The Unseen In Between

26. The Chemical Brothers - No Geography

27. Holychild - The Theatrical Death Of Julie Delicious

28. Aurora - A Different Kind Of Human (Step II)

29. Honeyblood - In Plain Sight

30. Vida Blue - Crossing Lines

31. Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light

32. Anderson .Paak - Ventura

33. Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs

34. Rose City Band - Rose City Band

35. Alex Lahey - The Best Of Luck Club

36. Guerilla Toss - What Would The Odd Do?

37. The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

38. Trey Anastasio - Ghosts Of The Forest

39. Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2

40. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishes

41. Silversun Pickups - Widow's Weeds

42. Friendly Fires - Inflorescent

43. Mood Robot - We Could Have Loved Our Innocence

44. Anima! - Grow Your Garden

45. Sault - 7

46. Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love

47. Black Mountain - Destroyer

48. Mac DeMarco - Here Comes The Cowboy

49. White Denim - Side Effects

50. The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South Of Reality

51. The Infamous Stringdusters - Rise Sun

52. The New Mastersounds - Shake It

53. Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready

54. Holy Ghost! - Work

55. Bayonne - Drastic Measures

56. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

57. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin¿

58. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

59. Wild Belle - Everybody One Of A Kind

60. Pumarosa - Devastation

61. Lettuce - Elevate

62. Bad Religion - Age Of Unreason

63. Griz - Ride Waves

64. K.Flay - Solutions

65. The Highwomen - The Highwomen

66. SebastiAn - Thirst

67. Kero Kero Bonito - Civilisation I

68. Kim Petras - Clarity

69. Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls

70. The Faint - Egowerk

71. Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken

72. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

73. Blood Red Shoes - Get Tragic

74. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

75. Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied

76. Yeasayer - Erotic Reruns

77. Keller Williams - Add

78. Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You

79. Tyler Childers - Country Squire

80. Tyler, The Creator - Igor

81. Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari

82. Avey Tare - Cows On Hourglass Pond

83. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

84. Durand Jones & The Indications - American Love Call

85. Jay Som - Anak Ko

86. Beck - Hyperspace

87. Tank And The Bangas - Green Balloon

88. Sault - 5

89. Allah-Las - LAHS

90. Kehlani - While We Wait

91. FIDLAR - Almost Free

92. Two Door Cinema Club - False Alarm

93. PUP - Morbid Stuff

94. Diane Coffee - Internet Arms

95. The Black Keys - "Let's Rock"

96. Battles - Juice B Crypts

97. Hot Chip - A Bath Full Of Ecstasy

98. Temples - Hot Motion

99. The Mountain Goats - In League With Dragons

100. (Sandy) Alex G - House Of Sugar

All Things 2019 - RYM All Things 2019 - Spotify

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more character development for an evil teacher from my book under the cut, sorry if ur on mobile

 Okay tv show

 Open on JULES VERNON HOLMES, at home in his kitchen. JULES is 36, with thinning brown curly hair. He has a pinched look to his face, because he recently lost eighteen pounds in three months. He wears glasses when he teaches high school history, but he is not wearing them now. The kitchen is cramped and made of a series of brown uniform prefab cabinets. There are no dishes in the sink and the counters are clean except for a piece of buttered toast without a napkin that sits next to the sink with one bite taken out of it. A long garland of garlic and onions hangs over the window like a party decoration. It is dark outside, and rain spatters the glass. JULES is standing on one leg in his kitchen, bracing his hip against the edge of the formica counter while he scratches at his calf with his bare right foot. He is wearing underwear and a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of a diner. He is struggling to open a pickle jar.

The phone rings from the next room. JULES starts, and his hand slips on the lid. He looks over at the oven. The clock on the oven displays the time as 12:18. JULES glances in the direction of the next room and scowls. He runs his tongue over his top teeth inside his lip, and does not move towards the ringing phone. JULES puts new effort into opening the jar of pickles. Across the room, there is a framed group photograph of college-age men standing with oars on the bank of a river. It includes JULES sixteen years before, when he was a member of his university’s rowing team. He is smiling; his arms are larger in the photo than they are in real life.

JULES opens the pickle jar with a pop. The phone is still ringing. There is only one pickle and a number of garlic cloves left at the bottom of the jar. He digs into the jar with his fingers, stretching his hand, and puts a garlic clove into his mouth.

 EXERCISE 2

 Jules was caught again by the display of different kinds of canned soup. He stood with his shopping basket on the linoleum tiles and held two cans of tomato soup in front of his face, studying the ingredients. One had cream and one had milk. There was another can of tomato soup on the shelf before him that had lentils in it, too. When he was younger there had only been one kind of canned tomato soup in every grocery store, or two. There were eighteen different things in front of him, all with different caloric and fat content. Jules was paralyzed. He put the soup with cream back on the shelf, and then picked it up again. It had higher fat content. Jules measured his blood pressure every morning before he ate breakfast. He threw the can into the cart, thinking that it would be better to eat real food than to find some watery diet version and be dissatisfied and end up binging on chips and peanut butter in the middle of the night. He would get the low sugar juice to compensate.

A man approached Jules in the aisle. He was older, and wore a gray sweatshirt and gym shorts. His shoes were dirty sneakers.

               “Excuse me,” he said to Jules. “Sir I don’t mean to bother you, but I’ve got no way else to do this, my daughter has a baby at home and we’re here to buy formula but it’s 37 dollars and they don’t let me put that on my credit card and I’m out of my EBT for the month.”

               Jules, whose mind had been in an alternate dimension of calories and aspartame and ideal blood pressure, jumped when he realized the man was speaking to him.

               “I’m sorry?”

               “Sir, it’s like a thing at this store, they don’t let you buy the formula with credit cards because some people just charge it on a stolen card, and I don’t have enough cash, and my EBT is all out for the month. But we have a baby at home and we need the formula, we’re all out. It’s my daughter. I wouldn’t ask for anything normally, I’m not that kind of man. Sir, I’m a military veteran, I served in Vietnam.”

               “Uh,” Jules said. He was not sure whether to look at the man’s eyes or not. “I don’t know what you’re asking me. I don’t have a lot of cash on me. I can give you a couple dollars.” He remembered he had only a fifty and a ten in his wallet, and tried to change tacks. “I think there’s an ATM outside the store to get money from a bank account.”

               “I don’t get paid till Friday,” the man said. “I don’t have money in my account.”

               “Oh,” Jules said. “Well, that’s—I’m sorry. And your daughter doesn’t have cash either?”

               “She’s at home with the baby,” the man said. “I didn’t want to ask her to come. Her husband left her and she’s saving as much as she can. Please, I just have to buy some infant formula for her.”

               Jules glanced desperately back at the soup, and then accidentally made eye contact with the man. He hated the way it made him feel to think of moving away down the empty aisle. He looked in his wallet and dug in it. His fingers hesitated on the ten and then took the fifty and thrust it at the man. “Good luck, sir,” he found himself saying. He couldn’t look into the man’s eyes. Jules already felt the sweat dripping down his back and a pillow of guilt emerging in his solar plexus, simultaneously related to giving the man too much money and at the same time to not being able to look in his eyes.

               “Thank you, sir, god bless you,” the man said. “I’m Boris. My name’s Boris. You’re a good man, you know that? Thank you, this means a lot. I won’t forget it.”

               “It’s no,” Jules said, and stopped, because it really was a problem. “I’m Jules. I hope you’re okay and the baby’s okay.”

               “We’re all getting by,” the man said.

               Night came. Jules’ cupboards were lined with the cans of tomato soup. He took an Ambien to sleep and then wandered around the house, looking out the windows.

                  Jules is holding the receiver of the phone up to his ear.

               “How have you been, then?” Jules says into the phone. He is still wearing the collared shirt and tie he wore to work. The papers he is grading are spread out on the table in front of him. He wants to make the kids excited about the grimy parts of history and he wants to make them understand the reasons their state developed the way it did.

               “Well, after the crash I’ve been just eating like frozen dinners,” Michelle says on the other end. “My arm is in the sling and all.”

               “Crash?” Jules tries to remember anything about a crash from the last time he and Michelle talked two weeks ago.

               “Mom said she called you. She didn’t?”

               “No,” Jules says. “Well, maybe if I was at work, but she didn’t call back.”

               “You don’t ever check your messages. I got in a motorcycle accident, isn’t that funny? Okay, it doesn’t sound funny, but here’s the context: I ran into an ice cream truck that didn’t signal and I literally flew over the top of the truck into the street and there were like four kids staring with their mouths open and one dropped his ice cream. I love like the mental image of everyone’s faces, it’s gonna bring me joy till the day I die.”

               “Michelle! Jesus!”

“My boss let me have the time off, it’s one of the good things about working as a nanny for a nice family, there’s no regular hassle about taking sick leave cuz she knows me. She’s even giving me a week’s pay, which like, must be nice to be rich, right? She’s so sweet though, and the baby’s so sweet.”

               “I warned you about that motorcycle,” Jules says. “Didn’t you already crash on a motorcycle a year ago?”

               “That time was worse. I got thrown into a tree! I mean, I was on more a path than a road. It was dumb. This time it wasn’t my fault, the ice cream company is even gonna give me compensation maybe if I can figure out a lawyer.”

               “You could seriously die, Michelle. Just get a car.”

               “I mean, I may have to. For now I’m using Mom’s.”

               “How is she getting around? Are you driving with, what, a broken arm? Why does nobody ever catch me up on this shit?”

               “Because you’re like this,” Michelle says. “And you don’t call, either. If you called Mom once a week you’d know what’s going on with everyone.”

               “You know how I feel about Mom,” Jules says. “I know you’ve sort of mended your relationship with her, but I still can’t forgive her. Especially after how she treated you and Ed when we were kids.”

               “Whatever, Jules,” Michelle says. Jules can see her rolling her eyes. “She’s here now and who knows for how long we’ll have her, you know? She’s a good person. I know she and you fought last month again, but just let it slide. She is how she is, and anyway she’s a lot better now. She just has her weird manias sometimes. She didn’t mean it about the nose job. She’s working at a paper here, you know. Or a gazette I guess. It’s about seafood restaurants. She’s working and getting up every day and she’s a decent, pleasant person. You can’t hold a grudge forever. She has all kinds of fun friends now too from her weird weed group. They’re really fun, there’s this gay truck driver who drops in whenever he’s in the city and has a ton of stories.”

               “This is crazy. I’m not going to talk to her. You said last year—do you remember what you said? Do you remember Mima’s funeral?”

               “So she got a little drunk. You can’t expect her to be well behaved at her ex husband’s mother’s funeral.”

               “So why did she even go?”

               “She just likes to have some fun. Like me. She’s just a little more messed up. Think about it this way, Jules, at least she left Scientology. Imagine if she’d stayed in it and we’d been raised like that. She’s gonna deal with this stuff the rest of her life but she’s like, in general a functional person. And she paints. It’s nice to have a mom who paints.”

               “She paints aliens.”

“How are your students? Are you teaching them about how to be good little mini George Bushies?”

“Michelle, so, I’m going to get off the phone now. I have papers to grade and I’m not having this conversation. I will say that I love you and I am asking you to please get a car, or take the bus, or something. I’m going to have nightmares about you on that motorcycle.”

“I could get a little quad. You know, four wheels.”

“Are you able to shop for yourself? Do you need anything?”

               “Jules, we’re really all right here.” Michelle takes a thin breath and Jules hears her exhale and imagines her smoking a cigarette on the balcony of his mother’s apartment in Seattle.

[biotulinsupremeskingel]

Natural Skin Care

Anti–Ageing And Skincare Made Easy

What Is Natural Skin Care?

Put simply, ‘natural skin care’ is caring for your skin in a natural and chemical-free way. ‘Natural skin care’ advocates enabling the skin to take care of itself (without any assistance from synthetic materials/ chemicals). ‘Natural skin care’ is about inculcation of good habits in the way you lead your day to day life. A lot of natural skin care measures are actually the same as those for body care in general. So let’s see what these natural skin care measures are. Well the first and the foremost natural skin care measure is – ‘Drink a lot of water’. Around 8 glasses of water is a must everyday. Water helps in flushing out the toxins from the body, in a natural way. It helps in the overall upkeep of the body and promotes good health for all organs (not just skin). General cleanliness is another inexpensive way of natural skin care. Daily shower, wearing clean clothes and sleeping on a clean mattress/pillow are all part of general cleanliness. After all, clean skin is the key to keeping the skin disorders at bay. Regular exercise is the next thing on the cards. Exercise increases the flow of blood that helps in getting rid of body toxins and keeping you healthy. Exercise also helps in beating stress which is the worst enemy of good health. Healthy food and eating habits are also recommended for natural skin care. Some type of food (e.g. oily food) is know to cause acne and should be avoided as much as possible. Your diet should be a healthy mix of various nutrient providing foods. Raw fruits and vegetables are known to provide freshness to your body and help in getting rid of body toxins. A good sleep is also instrumental in maintaining good health and in beating stress. As a natural skin care measure, a good sleep delays slacking of skin. Beating stress is another natural skin care therapy. Stress causes overall damage to body and health. Drinking a lot of water, getting a sound sleep and exercise has already been mentioned as stress busters. Indulging in a warm bubble bath, listening to music and playing your favorite sport are also good ways of beating stress. Yoga is yet another way of beating stress; it is fast gaining popularity amongst the masses.

Natural Skincare Routine

all right let's go to bed together ... ▼ all right let's go to bed together my skincare routine consists of basically one ish thing as of right now and then what I'm feeling fun and funky and I need to rehydrate my face I do a little bit extra which is kind of just making a mask and sometimes I do this mask my cherry one sometimes to do a picado or whatever my skin type is very oily underneath and dry on top so I have to be constantly exfoliating these layers because then I get all the Emelia bumps underneath that are dry and are trying to come out but they can't because I have this two layers of super dry skin on top so that's why my skin doesn't actually look oily but it is I struggled with acne for a very very long time cystic acne and I was on X chain for like two years and nothing really worked for me on on that level and I went to every different dermatologist and this and that and basically got everything done to my face that you can crack the end you know nothing ranked and then I came across this one woman Jennifer who was so amazing and she changed my skin and she's doing my she's designing my skincare line it's the only thing that was like actually a huge difference in an insane short amount of time and all her stuff is all natural which of course I love I brush my teeth with coconut oil and things like that so I stick to all natural products so I think so many times we think that the chemicals were work because it says it works some bla bla bla and you know it does work for a short amount of time but then what about it you stop using that product is your skin relying on that product do you become reliant on it and I think that's one thing that chemicals will really never fix for us that's why I like the all-natural we make quite a few different scrubs this is the lemon and sugar olive oil mix basically I started using it on my my newest assistant he just loves it so much it's been making his like so smooth and actually takes away the indents which like you can cover redness of makeup right but but you'll never be able to cover texture and that's something that you're always going to be battling yourself on and so that's why I really like this because it takes the texture down to a more even playing field I'm just gonna add a little bit of water because I've traveled quite a few times with the scrub and some of the moistures leaked out I'm just going to apply smells delicious you can also eat it again because it's all-natural sorry just oh my god it's so sugary Wow mhm mhm it smells like lemon and sugar like I don't know like that's some type of weird hotel if they if they put like or sometimes if you're on the plane and they give you those hand towels or whatever and they smell like lemon sometimes that's kind of what this smells like it's definitely scrubbing and bleeding it's kind of working these pores in this circular motion is gonna help me um activate the skin to become alive again in a sense they have this makeup artist Rekha force you would put products on my face like wants to sit into my skin she slapped my face really hard and it's supposed to kind of wake everything up a harsher version of it would be like if you're gonna do micro needling you do micro needling because you want to damage the skin so that the skin is like oh no no no hold on hold on I need to I need to rework myself I need to fill this back up I need to heal and so basically this scrub does that but in the lightest way because it's not breaking anything on my face a little you rework it and make sure you get in all those nooks and crannies and it is good to get under the eyes that's the time when you wash your face you kind of forget about right under your eye you go like here and then you stop but this is really sensitive skin right here so many wrinkles and light pigmentation and stuff comes right there from Sun and depending on your skin type in general if I'm wearing heavy makeup on set usual I'll use an oil first a coconut oil or a vitamin e oil to get it all off my face then I do the scrub just to really get in there get on the wash I think it's been like a little over a year maybe you're in six months I'm doing all natural and yeah the only thing that I do that's not all-natural would be micro needling I do that sometimes to get rid of some of these scars that are so bad on this side cuz on camera and screen I do all my own makeup on everything I work on and I only wear tinted moisturizer because I want it to like I want you to be able to see my skin see my freckles like see just like that my skin is breathing and so it's kind of difficult sometimes with these scars because I can't put thick makeup over it and like I said you can't cover texture and my next step would be us making this mass together and like I said sometimes they get this mask depending on what my face is calling for in that moment I do another mass Baba called a master like my second favorites okay so I put some a little thing of coconut oil in there and of course some honey here when it comes to measurements I'm pretty much eyeballing it when you're working with all-natural products it's much easier to eyeball it because most likely you're not skin obviously if I'm using something really acidic like in here like lemon and whatnot I'd want to be a little bit more careful and obvious about what I'm doing coconut oil is antibacterial honey is anti-inflammatory and cherries are also anti-inflammatory and antioxidant so either way on all three of these products you're pretty much okay no matter if you put too much honey here too much coconut oil but you want to pay attention to the product and it's gonna sound a little cheesy but listen to the product and if you're mixing it it's not a good consistency then you know you have to add a bit more oil or maybe a bit more of the tacky honey or you know just a Benz people obviously all the time like oh did you did you get your lips tinted or something and I never wear lipstick or anything but really if you do the cherries before you go to bed mmm what a nice color hmm it's kind of like a stain hmm see it's nice so I take a little with big eye but that's just because it's like fancy and I got one specifically for this but you don't have to use a wispy guy you could basically use a spoon or anything that you can kind of smash and mix with I'm just mixing it up trying to get a consistency Eyck some of these I want to smash a little bit I'm just gonna take a smudge like this it looks gross I'm gonna do it in the sink because it's red it's so light and been wandering and the the honey is really quite but not tacky at all and the coconut oil definitely balances everything out that makes it quite smooth but I think really the cherries the liquid all the antioxidants and what not getting into this like super and liquid form I think that's what makes everything feel so soft because you think I mask like this would feel kind of thick but if you touch my face right now you'll feel it's you thin really soft over I leave it on for like five two minutes honestly sometimes I've left it on a really long time and I start doing things and I get lazy and I'm doing other things and I start writing so now we're gonna watch it off I'm gonna use the rag to really make sure that I could get off the coconut oil like the whole consistency well this was my last step I I don't do anything extra you don't use moisturizer or anything crazy if anything sometimes we'll use some light vitamin E oil or I mix some different oils that I'm feeling fancy with some vitamins and sometimes I'll put that on my face but I had so much acne and I did so many things to my face to try and get rid of it that now I don't really wash my face in the morning I only wash it before bed I'll wipe it down and clean it but I don't I don't do a fool this every morning just just at night they think that the more that we try with our skin just pushing and pushing and pushing trying to get something to work the body is also like sometimes it's too much it's too much of a lot of things and the skin it can't it can't concentrate and relax so I don't like to to douse my face and anything too heavy so I don't really put on moisturizer well thank you for watching my skincare routine um I hope you guys liked it and maybe think about going a little bit more all-natural once in a while blah Powered by VidSEO Avoiding excessive exposure to sun (by wearing long sleeved clothes, hat and umbrella etc), is another natural skin care strategy. Sunscreen lotions are also recommended as necessary. A lot of traditional and home made natural skin care products/ measures are also known to be very effective. Such measures are not only natural and easy-to-follow, but also relatively inexpensive. Besides that, a lot of natural skin care products are available in the commercial market. These include things like lavender oil, aloe Vera etc., which don’t have any side effects.   Read the full article