#punk rashomon

[spilladabalia]

Rondos, the punk band that made Crass ‘look like a vaudeville show’ | Dangerous Minds

[thatone-highlighter]

HI DUCK!!! listened to the songs u recommended and ngl i found bad suns rlly boring </3 BUT! most of the chaz cardigan songs are getting immediately downloaded on my phone. i only listened to a few arrested youth songs before i hit my new song listening limit for the day but it sounds promising 🦜

U know fair enough with the bad suns thing i can see how they can not be someones vibe but i like it so its fine

Of Course You Like Chaz Cardigan(derogatory)

<- guy who also likes Chaz Cardigan

I also just wanted to tell u that i didnt consider it when i reccomended it but Arrested Youth the songs i have listened to on occasion, i associate with Sasha Waybight. So w/ that what u will

[caelanglang]

ive noticed that everyone seems obsessed with fem skk and all that so allow this ask to be a breather. im gonna tell u about my newest bsd fanfic idea!!! i mean, i have other ppl to tell it to as well but they're not invested into bsd like i am. this is more or less a small passionate rant from an author so there's rlly no need to make this into one of ur inbox sketches or anything like that but i don't mind it if u do lmao

ok ok so i LOVE pretty much any humanoid creatures who primarily prey on humans (vampires, zombies, etc.) and now ive been thinking about the possibility of a zombie apocalypse au that's kinda kunikidazai based in which kunikida and dazai were separated from the rest of the ADA but still use their office as a shelter in hopes that they'll find their way back and be reunited. everything is normal up until dazai literally dies from blood loss after being attacked by zombies and kunikida, unable to simply toss his coworker's corpse into the ocean or smth even though he KNOWS he's gonna turn, decides to bring him back to their shelter and barricade him into a spare room. the next day, he wakes up to a now zombified dazai growling and scratching at the door, trying to get out. at this point, it's like a rlly good delve into his ideals and morals, and how far he'll go just to ensure that no one he cares about gets hurt/killed + it gives him a moment of irrationality in his otherwise logical mind. he should've gotten rid of his body, he should've left him behind and not have brought a massive burden on himself but he CARES!! it's evident he does even in canon in one of the light novels so i need to make more content for that.

anyways, days pass. he feeds dazai raw meat from his own rations, believing that it'll calm his friend down until he can find or make a cure for him to bring him back. and then he meets ranpo, the sole survivor of the other group of ADA members (yes, even yosano. zombies are undead and aren't close enough to death for her ability to work on but it's like a rlly fine line) ranpo, in short, is rather jaded. he lost his friends and even the person he viewed as a father figure. when he moves into the shelter in the office, he's reasonably upset by kunikida keeping what he likes to refer to as 'dazai's walking corpse' in a spare room that they could easily put to use now. they argue, ranpo says there isn't a cure and that kunikida should just let him go, kunikida asks why, and then ranpo presents The Glasses™, puts them on, then tells him the truth. there is no cure. he'd be the first to know, other than the creators themselves. once kunikida is stubborn enough to still keep good ole zombie dazai around, ranpo states that he doesn't want him eating their rations if he insists on feeding him. there is still a way to feed him, however. cut to them finding the nearest dead body and then tossing it into dazai's room and hearing him feast on it. not a good day for kunikida's values, that's for sure. oh wait hold on did i mention that i also want kunikida to make a endless supply of ammo with his notebook just in case he encounters danger (that would be cool, but he'd probably try to limit his notebook page usage)

ive also considered adding chuuya and akutagawa, as they got stranded when it happened and have been wandering around by themselves for awhile now. i feel like the cast of characters would be an interesting combination, plus they all have connections to dazai and are all upset about his current condition (to some extent). also chuuya could look at ranpo and go "you're that one punk from the agency that trapped me in a damn book!" cue him almost actually punching ranpo this time but kunikida stopping him somehow. everyone's abilities would be so good in a apocalyptic setting though. rashomon tearing into zombies long before they reach them, or for the tainted sorrow crushing hordes of them in emergency situations. great stuff

i haven't decided on the ending yet becuz there are a lot of contenders. kunikida could make a cure, or he could finally decide to deal with dazai, or they could all get zombified, or maybe he could just leave dazai stuck in that room forever while he, ranpo, and the others find a different place, becuz the ADA and PM are no more.

thank u for reading this rant btw! i enjoyed writing it

— dream

It was a wonderful read :)) Thanks for sharing this! I love love the idea of the bsd assemble set in a zombie apocalypse with their abilities intact! (manga spoilers// similar to the bram's vampirism but not induced by an ability kinda) There's so much to work with in that tbh, a lot of adventures and action and cool combos~

And I love the idea that it centers on Kunikidazai with Kunikida not wanting to leave Dazai behind ;w; I think it really fits them well. I remember reading an adorable webtoon similar to this—two best friends getting caught up in a zombie apocalypse, the main character tries to survive as a human and his best friend becomes a zombie that for some reason is not aggressive or attacking (protective bf troupe lezgooo) It's a very cute one, though I lost track of it's update TwT)) sorry if the comparison might sound offensive! It wasn't my intention, I just really like those kinds of troupes in apocalyptic settings hhhh /gen

Whatever route you choose for the plot, I'm sure it would be fun :)) I'm cheering you on for this au! I just hope you don't take the evil angst route /j

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Scrambled Eggs

While we’re at the high point of the hiatus, I wanted to do the reflection on an Egghead re-read. This type of thing is exactly why I needed to re-read, you see it side-by-side right? Kidd’s intel clashes directly with what Shanks says of his fleet’s reputation. When I say Rashomon-style shit, this is what I mean. The line on the Victoria Punk is 100% innocuous first pass, it’s only with the later detail that it takes on new meaning. That fundamental concept is the foundation of the way we look at Kiku a little differently. Time has just given clarity. Act 3 of Wano is a play bookended by a pair of unreliable narrators. It leaves off on an odd note. Then we go into Egghead, which is doing three things:

Dredging up memories of prior arcs more than any other one has done.

Repeating some core themes in Wano, biggest being hiding York’s betrayal in plain sight just like Kanjuro’s.

Sharply breaking midway through into a free-flowing, multi-level flashback that would make Scheherazade blush with the main cast absent for almost a volume now. 

Halfpint Hebihime’s too cute to look at explosions. That was what jumped out to me most about the main story. How truly dire we leave off. Usopp’s petrified, Franky’s not much better. Robin’s walking right into York without knowing what’s up and the Navy’s bringing 100 ships & an admiral. Not to mention the superweapon. I’ve already laid out my idea; this is tailor made for the Grand Fleet and seeing a couple sprinkled into the Reverie flashback bolsters that. If we’re hiding a quartermaster that plays nice to let them both show off and excuse their absence coordinating it. Cabbage has been talking to reporters, Leo & Sai made a big scene, Barto’s involved in Shanks’s story which also has big potential with our mystery lady from Wano’s end. Not that it needs too, but that’s when we have to mention:

Bonney, Sentomaru, and the many faced Vegapunk as well. But York and Stussy are where it really feels like that sneaky winding thread through Wano bubbles up into the spotlight here. Stussy’s just playing it straight as a CP0 Agent of open motives right now and York’s such a big, blatant foil it’s hard not to circle back to Kiku with them. 

Which means you have the stage set with peculiarities in Wano’s ending. Elements of Egghead keeping the door open. Then the cutaway showing damn well we’re comfortable scrambling the timeline here.

[volkswagonblues]

 2021 in review - my fave books I read this year:

[you can find my 2020 roundup here]

1. Substance: Inside New Order, by Peter Hook + 2. Touching from a Distance, by Deborah Curtis

Okay, let me make you a pitch for reading these 2 books, plus 2 that didn’t quite make the list but that I think about CONSTANTLY (Chapter and Verse, by Bernard Sumner and Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist by Stephen Morris).

I love their music, but what really fuels my weird obsession is that like, New Order/Joy Division is some sort of experimental literature DREAM. They have not one but TWO movies made about them. Each of the three surviving members of JD have written autobiographies. Ian Curtis’s widow, Deborah, also wrote her own memoir. So you have 4 competing and often contradictory (!) descriptions of the exact same events.

It’s like Rashomon but like, with real, actual people, and because they’re real people they are infinitely bizarre and interesting and complicated. Read alltogether, I’d say the 4 autobriographies are an incredible portrait of loneliness, they’re 4 portraits of people whose lives are so intertwined, yet they can’t connect. incredible

3. Craft in the Real World, by Matthew Salesses

I like this book on writing because Salesses acknowledges the difference between western/asian storytelling, and also because he offers some very good tips for plot. Move events from the past to the present. Visualise the contents of a single written page. Create a ticking time bomb.

4. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The prose...the prose! So dense but chewy and flagrantly anti-skimmable. I’m in a book club for this and every time we rave about how good Nguyen’s sentences are. Also, I always have a soft spot for grimy 1970s spy shit. The Commited, the sequel set in Paris, is also fantastic because it’s so specifically merciless against the French intellectual bourgeoise, which I find hilarious

5. I’m Not With the Band, by Sylvia Patterson

Part of my ongoing fascination with 80s-90s music. It’s so good for journalism nerds as well, I find Patterson’s writing just so breezy and readable. And of course the various little snapshots into 90s music personalities like Kylie Minogue and the Manic Street Preacher lads and the members of Blur-- *chef’s kiss*

“I was always hopeless at drugs. I was never psychologically robust enough for drugs, and yet I persevered like a stoic climber with one leg, no arms and spinal tuberculosis up a vertical Alpine precipice. Growing through teenhood in Scotland in the early 1980s there was no escape from drugs, permanently present in the local post-punk whirligig.”

6. White Ivy, Susie Yang

Ok in 2021 I actually found myself drifting away from “literary” fiction into “mass market” fiction (ACTUALLY THESE DISTINCTIONS ARE DUMB BUT LMAO). Anyways, I think the synopsis definitely missed the point of the book, and it tried to make it a Gillian Flynn grifter-narrative when really it’s influenced so much by Edith Wharton and society novels. It’s about a Chinese-American girl trying to marry her way into a rich, WASP family. I’d say that half of the novel set my mind on fire, and the other half was a slog that desperately needs a good edit. Overall, excellent read. The world needs more Asian-American protagonists who are incompetant idiots <3

7. The Collected Novellas, by Stefan Zweig

So Zweig is the author referenced at the beginning of Grand Budapest Hotel. He’s fantastic. Half of these novellas have one (1) premise, which is, “what if you’re on a boat and another dude was on the boat and then this dude tells you the fucking bonkers shit that ever happened to anyone ever”. But seriously, after reading a lot of contemporary fiction with “flat” emotional affects (think of those millenial pink Instagram novels with garish blobs, etc), reading an early 20th c realist narrative where emotions and interior journeys are taken really, really seriously feels so refreshing. I read it and immediately summarised the plot of every single one to my partner, just because they’re so fun to talk about.

8. First Kyu, by Dr. Sung-Hwa Hong

First Kyu is about Go. It’s about a guy who is so obsessed with becoming a professional Go player that it takes over his life. It’s such a good portrait of post-WW2 Korea and that specific generation of men, it’s a reflection on Go but also on philsophy and religion and family relationships. It’s about a guy who plays a lot of board games and sleeps with a bunch of woman, and it rocks. 

It’s written by a non-professional writer and Go enthusiast (I believe Hong was a dentist in Vancouver), but it’s one of those stories where the characters are so sincere, and the plot is so exciting, that the quality of the writing really does not matter. It doesn’t. The sheer burning urgency of the story shines through regardless. I put it on here because I found it a lot more interesting than writing that’s more technically sophisticated, but also more stifled and primped by a million MFA workshops. I think it’s a good reminder that what really matters in art is telling a good story. Not crafting a beautiful sentence. Just tell a good story. That’s what connects with people. Beautiful sentences are nice, but the story is what sticks.

[kiwicopia]

Just something for a friend. This is probably 100% OOC. 😅

Akutagawa: When it comes to things if the sexual nature, Akutagawa will only act on it if he's in the mood, and if you're in the mood. That being said, he'd be vanilla at first. Doing only the simple and known positions. He knows you won't do anything kinky due to your innocent nature, so that's why he has to. He'll be awkward about it, possibly flustered and trying to hide his face. But he'll get it out and that'll be it. Whether or not you're into it is up to you. If you are, well, it's a good there's a safe word in place. He'll for sure use his ability, but he'll be extra careful about it. Rashomon will hold you down while Akutagawa pleasured you, or he'll hold you down while Rashomon pleasures you. He enjoys being dominant, but he's a soft dom, so he won't be doing anything too extreme or too out of your comfort zone.

Chuuya: He may be a punk and slightly oblivious at times with certain topics, but he knows one thing and that's he's a man with needs. Though he doesn't speak about it, his body language will show it. Once he gets the okay to do things with you, he won't hesitate to talk about doing other non vanilla stuff. Then he'll want to get his ability involved, since he thinks it'll bring you both the utmost pleasure. He may be crazy, or he may be right. Won't know until you both try it out, and it's weird when you do it at first. Being stuck in the air while he has his way with you, with consent of course, is strange, but Chuuya focuses more on pleasing you before he wants his pleasure. After a while, you don't mind him bringing his power to bed.

Poe: This man is awkward when sexual. At least for the first few times. He's a bit of a switch, but he can be whatever you want him to be in bed. When the time comes for his ability to be brought to bed, he's a bit antsy. In a good sort of way. He'll always make sure you read before activating his power. Fifty Shades of Grey? Sure, he'll be up for it. So long as you enjoy it. If you're into any monster fucking, he'll for sure be nervous, but not so much if he can be the monster in the book. He'll be gentle, he promises. Won't outright admit that he enjoys using his ability in bed, but you can see that he does.

Lovecraft: He's your guy if you're into monster fucking because of his ability. Or, if you're into Lovecraftian horror, he's still your guy. He's a bit lax with sex, but he gets off on getting you off. That being said, he's into using his ability in bed. His tentacles are versatile, durable, and so he can go as long as you want. He'll hold you down, if you're comfortable with that, while his tentacles trace your body, leaving no part untouched. Sometimes he'll have them hold you down while he pleases you, or vice versa. He's another soft dom, but he has his days where he just wants to be a little bit tougher with you. Will you let him?

@stygianoir

[recentanimenews]

FEATURE: How ODDTAXI's Big Cast Keeps Its Mystery Interesting

  How many different characters can an anime have before things get too hairy? Or — furry?

  Animal crime drama ODDTAXI takes its menagerie of a cast very seriously. ODDTAXI is about walrus taxi driver Odokawa, a runaway girl, organized crime, idols, and city living. It shares a “panoramic” day-in-the-life angle … with a twist. Despite its unique anthropomorphic animal character designs, its world is grounded in a reality where species is the least of anyone’s concerns.

  Taichi Kabawa explains the importance of social media to old man Odokawa

  EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

  You won’t find one-dimensional prey versus predator dynamics or a shallow status quo vaguely resembling a food chain. ODDTAXI’s cast unexpectedly finds themselves in Rashomon-esque contradictions and conspiracies with all the modern conveniences of social media.

  Mystery Kiss members Shiho Ichimura and Yuki Mitsuya contemplate their future

  Rather than tell a linear story, ODDTAXI insists on showing us offbeat paths, as if we were a city-dweller bumping into eccentric personalities across the street. What matters most is first impressions: your job, gender, income. Even the most mundane facts can change everything.

  Sensational idol Rui Nikaido and fanboy Shun Imai at a polaroid event

ODDTAXI hits the ground running introducing about a dozen major characters, zig-zagging perspectives between cab rides. Until Episode 4 — “Tanaka’s Revolution.” This anomaly in pacing throws a wrench into everything we assume we know. After giving a random, supposedly one-off character an episode about his moral crusade, nothing can be taken for granted. It’s a risky move, but it pays off.

  When you accidentally turn on selfie mode

  ODDTAXI’s “panoramic” pacing gets away with this by adding more pieces to an already incomplete puzzle. By introducing every character with the intent to break first impressions, we are forced to reconsider how ensemble casts make a mystery richer.

  WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

  Odokawa is boring by design. He’s a 41-year-old with a laid-back attitude toward essentially everything, including gangster baboons pointing guns at his head. Odokawa says he’s like an authentic bartender: someone who knows keeping secrets is half the job. Keeping a missing high school girl in his apartment feels more like an aside than a plot twist — the first question asked in Episode 1 is answered before the credits roll.

  Shirakawa rides with Odokawa

  Odokawa’s private cab service is for everyone. His ability to make easy rapport might as well be a façade depending on who gets in. Alpaca nurse Shirakawa is stealing pharmaceutical medication, Odokawa assumes she’s just naive. We catch glimpses of a hopeless bachelor trying to find a girlfriend, a struggling idol group, gangsters, a student trying to go viral — what are they all hiding? There’s a niche for everyone in this tidy metropolitan ecosystem, even if it’s just “bachelor” or “idol fanboy.” First impressions lead us to assumptions any anonymous taxi driver would have. This is why introducing so many players at once works.

  Odokawa recounts seeing Shirakawa meeting with notorious gangster, Dobu

  Dominos begin falling when Shirakawa’s activity leads back to a violent gangster named Dobu. She’s played as a possible love interest to melt Odokawa’s old, icy heart. It’s not exactly a slow burn, but by the time Odokawa becomes suspicious of this innocent-looking nurse, ODDTAXI’s omniscient bird’s-eye view of the city makes everything situational irony. Text messages we aren’t supposed to see, shady yet familiar figures in alleys … even when we’re not behind the wheel, we know just enough to piece it together.

  AGAINST TYPECASTING

  Rui Nikaido behind the scenes at an idol Halloween event

  Toy poodle Rui Nikaido leads the girl group trio Mystery Kiss. ODDTAXI feeds us snippets of Mystery Kiss on TV and the radio, but never the big picture. Unsurprisingly, the idol industry isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Mystery Kiss is presenting a face-façade. It’s not even subtle: Rui’s backup dancers are contractually obligated to wear masks so Rui stands out — quite literally making them “two-faced” with contempt. By Episode 5, Shiho suggests that Rui is so ambitious she might’ve already killed someone to get ahead. Mystery Kiss is a microcosm of ODDTAXI’s ensemble cast at large. Everyone wears masks even when they don’t want to.

  Pretty in pink, better in leather.

Episode 2 shows Mystery Kiss fanboy Shun having a sincere heart-to-heart with Rui during an event. She tells him the business is hard and sales are underwhelming. Afterward, we see Rui and her manager behind the scenes: a jaded-looking Rui sports a punk leather jacket. Even the tell-all idol persona Shun saw earlier wasn’t the “real” Rui. In fact, Mystery Kiss’ manager, a bodyguard-sized fox, is withholding information from the girls. ODDTAXI doesn’t waste time putting its ensemble through the wringer of mask-breaking situations. First, come the disguises, then always harsh reality.

  Shiho tells her manager what she really thinks of Rui

  PROTAGONIST SYNDROME

  Let’s come full circle. By the end of Episode 3, ODDTAXI gives us enough hints to realize Shirakawa and Mystery Kiss are perhaps part of something bigger. Not to mention the uncanny resemblance between an 18-year-old and Shiho partaking in dubious behavior on a dating app, or a possible gangster conspiracy against Odokawa. Unsuccessful manzai comedians confide to Odokawa about the competitive entertainment industry, while two policemen meerkat brothers play favorites with criminals. The world is an unfair anti-meritocracy, but no one’s insisting they’re the special hero who will fix it. Except for Tanaka.

  Tanaka cries tears of joy when he finally pulls a dodo in the mobile game “Zooden”

This is why “Tanaka’s Revolution” is refreshing despite being so jarring. In Episode 3, Odokawa nearly has a hit-and-run with Tanaka, causing him to break his phone. A dodo flashing on his screen before it shatters: “The bird that went extinct without ever learning to fly,” Tanaka monologues. “Perhaps I was projecting myself onto it. It was just like me.”

  "No, if I died here without achieving anything, I wouldn't even be Rare. I'd just be normal."

  What happens next breaks convention by switching gears to the first-person. Tanaka’s childhood obsession with erasers mutates into a life-consuming compulsion to acquire a rare gacha character. ODDTAXI’s “panoramic” perspective is stretched to painful extremes by unexpectedly introducing a narrator so self-aware of his obsession with status it emotionally wrecks him.

  Tanaka’s sacred dodo is deleted from his Zooden account after his phone is repaired

  SHARE THE ROAD

  Compared to Odokawa’s perpetual rotation of passengers, Tanaka’s voice is straightforward. He details his backstory until we know him better than Odokawa. Why frame an episode like this? Tanaka’s narcissism. It’s what makes him, and this episode, black sheep. In a world where everyone’s a main character, Tanaka suffers from toxic protagonist syndrome. His inability to accept reality for what it is leads him down a violent crusade. This episode doesn’t just serve to contextualize Tanaka in the ensemble itself but is also a warning against seeing only black and white.

  Odokawa drives with Mystery Kiss’s manager

With clever delivery of characters being in the right time and place, ODDTAXI is a rare breed of drama that prioritizes nuance. It’s a true testament to how ensemble casts best reflect the messy, unpredictable aspects of life. Although Odakawa isn’t without his own biases — no one is a perfect judge of character — you couldn’t have a better guide for this gallery of oddballs. When we start thinking of everyone as an empathic eccentric starring in their own backseat confessional down a bumpy road, we learn to listen.

    Which member of ODDTAXI's eccentric critter cast speaks to you? Let us know in the comments!

        Blake P. is a weekly columnist for Crunchyroll Features. His twitter is @_dispossessed. His bylines include Fanbyte, VRV, Unwinnable, and more. He stans Ichimura.

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By: Blake Planty

[yukinohananana017]

Random Bungou Stray Dogs AUs

In which my brain refuses to sleep and instead makes random aus in the middle of the night : part 2 electric boogalo

Some of these might not make sense, I'm not claiming otherwise. It's my brain having fun again. please send help. I'm mostly doing this to get it out of my system, but I hope you guys enjoy it. May contain spoilers.

Assassin!Fem!Atsushi meets a young orphaned homeless boy named Kyoka, who reminds her of her old self, after saving the said boy from a gang the mercenary/assassin was hired to eliminate. Kyoka met his saviour, who comes in the form of a beautiful lady with hair the colour of the moon and heterochromia eyes and turns to a graceful tiger under the moonlight. He decided to follow the lady after she gives him a reason to live. Atsushi becomes mentor and a familial figure as a result.

Oda Sakunosuke didn't expect to wake up again, especially in a cage, nor did he expect to become a tiger, who's also coincidentally a young orphan named Atsushi who's badly treated by basically everyone around him. He takes it to his duty to take care of the young boy, despite being a probably haunting spirit and the boy being probably his reincarnation, but hey, details. On the bright side, he's kind-of a tiger now? (Oda reincarnates as Atsushi, with a twist.)

Different abilities, and consequently, different roles and personalities au (not completely though). In which everyone's abilities are different and named under a different name based on a different book of the authors. Kyoka's Ruby Mist allows her to cast hallucinations/illusions of her target's worse fears/regrets/nightmares. Atsushi is now a doctor, but he looks like a patient Because his rare healing ability, Light, Wind and Dreams, can only activate when his patients are unconscious and he is injured. Kyoka sometimes help to knock them out, gleefully, and worries over the doctor/brother figure who gets too injured and tired for her own liking. Dazai, with his ability of the Setting Sun, probably has a bit (lot) of a crush on the young doctor, and worries for him just as much. Ranpo snickers. Kyoka and Atsushi met and joined ADA early.

Everyone is somehow related to one another. Fukuzawa has blood relations to Atsushi, Dazai and Ranpo are chaotic cousins, Yosano and the Tanizaki siblings are distant relatives, and no one can figure out how Kenji and Kunikida are related.

Abilities becomes humans as a result of an ability. (Inspired by Dead Apple) Abilities now have human forms and are sentient. Atsushi is baffled to see his look-alike that has tiger features with a foul mouth yet acts kinda overprotective over him, but he's still a little shit. Dazai's ability becomes a young woman who looks eerily like Dazai but has the personality of a calm and straight headed person who can manifest chains. Kyoka meets Yukinoshita/Demon Snow and talks to the kind lady/ability, who looks very similar to her mother. Kouyou joins with Golden Demon as well. Chuuya is baffled by Arahabaki, who politely requests popcorn and acts very regal, but is still very much amused by the turn of events. No one can tell Rashomon's gender (*looks at Gin*), but they're definitely calm and kinda Victorian? Very attached to their master. They don't mix well with Taiga (a foul-mouthed lone tiger who gets pissed 24/7 and has zero-manners), the beast, surprise surprise. No Longer Human, gets tired of having to restrain them sometimes so they don't destroy the cafe.

Karl isn't a raccoon, but a Tanuki thank you very much. The youkai get a kick of watching his owner baffled of his feelings to the green-eyed detective.

Soukoku, shin soukoku and their mentors swap places. Fukuzawa gets annoyed of Mori, a mafia member who has an uncharacteristic grudge on him and obsession with his sister(?), and becomes shin soukoku somehow. Akutagawa and Atsushi are now Soukoku and likes to snark to each other about edgy and punk hair and how they would love to see them riddled in bullets ("I hope you die via bullets!" "The feeling is mutual jinko."). Chuuya is tired, he's getting too old for this, Dazai is amused, no matter the age.

Sakura survives and inherits Odasaku's ability to see the future. She is now determined to somehow save people by her new-found ability while trying to push her traumatic memories away. She still misses her father and her siblings very much. She meets some detectives along the way, not knowing that the green-eyed one has met her father before, but the new detective with bandages seems familiar...

Atsushi's healing ability isn't his. He maybe a were-tiger, but his healing ability comes from someone else, who died trying to protect him. He only notices when he tries to find his parents, and finds out of of his family members has an ability, Light, Wind and Dreams, which they somehow transferred to Atsushi when he was a mere baby. He doesn't know how to react to this, now knowing he has two gifts.

More to come probably, knowing the mess that is my brain. Feel free to go crazy with these suggestions.

[justforbooks]

Over the past several decades, New York's Chelsea Hotel has come to epitomize the lively and decadent world of the city's artistic fringe, providing a safe haven for writers, artists, musicians and eccentrics of all stripes. With THIS AIN'T NO HOLIDAY INN: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel, 1980-1995, author James Lough has provided a multi-faceted portrait of the Chelsea in a unique oral history format which draws together a vast array of creative individuals who made the hotel their home in the 1980's and 1990's. Here are fascinating portraits, from the basement to the penthouses, of its notorious denizens such as Beat poets Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke, former Andy Warhol star Viva, rockers Johnny Thunders(of the New York Dolls) and Dee-Dee Ramone (the Ramones) as well as lesser-known figures, newly arrived on the scene, eager to make their mark, who found in the Chelsea a home away from home under the watchful eye of Stanley Bard, manager, landlord and "pater familias" to the motley household. Moreover, while exploring the myths, tall-tales and wild yarns that have emerged from behind these "Chelsea Walls," this book provides a Rashomon-like perspective on urban legends surrounding the death of punk rocker Sid Vicious, the mystery of Jimi Hendrix's demise, Dee Dee Ramone's post-Ramones re-emergence as a bleached blond bluesman, and vivid portraits of the various and nefarious characters from pimps to drug dealers, aging drag queens, dominatrixes, gamblers, gurus, and gangsters who thrived there in the waning days of New York's Bohemia at the end of the 20th Century.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[tommyplum]

Hey!! ☺️ Honey perfume, nymph & lavender dream for modern Alfie, pretty please 😍

honey perfume; favorite perfume/scent?

“Thomas, much like myself, is a wearer of hats - and the loveliest scent I’ve even happened across, is the scent of his hatbands. That blended fug of overpriced shampoo and whatever the fuck else he puts in that hair of his, oily skin, and sweat is the most intoxicating perfume in the world, innit?”

nymph; name 3 films that have changed your life and have shaped you into the person you are today.

“Easy, mate - first there’s Rashomon, because the truth is never clear-cut and seldom even achievable; then there’s The Big Lebowski, because that’s just a brilliant fucking film, innit? And then there’s Blue Velvet, because the darkness is always there, right? Lurking away, being seedy, just under the surface of your bright ‘normal’ day-to-day. 

Those are my top three, hands down.”

lavender dream; favorite album?

“My favourite album is actually ‘I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight’ by Richard and Linda Thompson - which might come as a bit of a surprise… or not. I mean how would I fucking know, yeah?

As a point of interest though - if, indeed, you are interested - is that Gypsy Punks by Gogol Bordello is a favourite of mine too; but Tommy fucking hates them, so you can likely guess how many times I’ve been able to enjoy that record since we pinned things down.”

the ask meme

[thatone-highlighter]

so none of them beat haircut (because damn u vibechecked me hard w that one) but i love blame, throwing punches, feels like i know you and not ok and i really liked rashomon and losing touch

Vibe checking u with haircut was so funny man

BLAME SO REAL BESTIE <3 its literally so good i dont know what it is but i want to eat it

Feels like i know you and losing touch i really like on the same level as over and nerves also

Theres a few also like iDealouge i like, Grand Punk is pretty good also but i gotta be in a specific mood for it

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this week - 24

In The Cakemaker ( האופה מברלין‎) a lonely baker moves from Berlin to Jerusalem in order to bond with the widow and young son of his boyfriend, who had died in a car accident. 

A restrained, moving and subversive Israeli film about Identities - what a surprise!. 8+ / 10.

The only trope that annoyed me was the power of “Food” as magic.

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2 with Saoirse Ronan:

✳️✳️✳️ In The Lovely Bones, 14 year old Saoirse Ronan is being murdered (brutally, but off screen) by creepy neighbor Stanley Tucci. The first 30 minutes before the murder are bone-chillingly scary, but then it turns into a stupid, unnecessary metaphysical theoretical bullshit. Sad!

✳️✳️✳️ Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut.

Sensitive, quiet and empathetic, well-paced and beautifully acted. Re-watch.

Best film of the week!

✳️✳️✳️ Bonus: Saoirse Ronan's many accents

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In Daniel Clowes’s sad Ghost World, misfit teenage friends, Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch, prank dorky Steve Buscemi after they find a lonely heart ad he had placed.

Sweet and sensitive about adolescent angst and punk restlessness.

9/10.

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Unfortunately, Terry Zwigoff’s next film after Ghost World was Bad Santa, a terrible, unfunny crime story of a Charles Bukowski-type mall Santa with no redeeming characteristics who robs the stores where he works at the end of the season. 2/10

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“Mmm... Whale carcass...”

Luca, the newest Pixar feature, (which is like “Coco but on the Italian Riviera”...), and which is like “Call me by your name”, but without the gay stuff. First feature from the director of La Luna, and pretty much a Vespa product placement.

I like the posters from the old film classics (Roman Holiday, Bicycle Thief) that can be briefly glimpsed on the town’s walls!

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2 with Kristen Stewart:

✳️✳️✳️ American Ultra: A goofy underground comix disguised as an action movie where the hero is a loser stoner who loves his stoner girlfriend. Sweet and over the top. With Huell Babineaux in a colorful sweater in a small role.

Terrific end titles done in Mike’s "Apollo Ape" drawing style.

I wrote about it here, giving it “3 Funyons”.

(Re-watch)

✳️✳️✳️ Personal Shopper starts suggestively with two interesting stories, one of lovely Stewart as a shopper for a super model celebrity who eventually gets murdered, and another of her being a medium who communicates with ghosts. But in the last 30 minutes, she is trying to connect with her dead twin brother, and the whole plot falls apart and ends ‘nowhere’ (literally in a random room in Oman).

It is shot in romantic Paris with a small side connection to Hilda of Klimt (who was also a spiritualist), so it was very appealing to the eye.

Even though it was uneven, I’ll look for other films by prolific French director Olivier Assayas.

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The Bothersome Man is a weird Norwegian film about a man who suddenly finds himself in a cold, “perfect” city - but without children or any emotions - and his attempts to escape from there. He is first dropped off - dressed like ‘Paris, Texas’s Harry Dean Stanton - in front of a deserted gas station in the middle of nowhere. It’s a dystopian story without explanations or much direction. 4/10.

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Icarus - Amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel’s 2017 investigation into illegal doping in international sport, and his discovery of a massive Russian conspiracy of cheating and cover up. I wonder how he first got the director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory to help him cheat.

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✳️✳️✳️ “Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way.”

Kurosawa classic 1950′s Rashōmon - I didn’t remember how low budget and simple it was: There are only three settings in the film: Rashōmon gate, the woods, and the courtyard. The black and White filming is symbolic of light and darkness, good and evil. Part of the score is Ravel’s Boléro.

(The Internet Archive copy is haltingly bad, but the only one I could find).

✳️✳️✳️ Sheila Marie Orfano explains The Rashomon effect, where individuals give significantly different but equally believable accounts of the same event.

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Kurzgesagt’s short film A Minute by Minute Account of the Day the Dinosaurs Died.

The YouTube channel of Kurzgesagt in general is one of the best.

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In the new Fatherhood, Kevin Hart’s wife dies a day after she gives birth, and he stays to raise his daughter by himself. I wanted to like it more but there wasn’t much there.

Also, the newborn baby was a bit too old. 3/10

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Errol Morris’s horrifying Standard Operating Procedure shows that we only know about Bush’s war crimes at Abu Ghraib because they were photographed. “American values” never change.

(This copy is pretty grainy)

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On the waterfront - Young Brando’s first Oscar performance was truly riveting.

“... It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room... I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley..” 

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In 2018, before he did ‘‘Another Round", Thomas Vinterberg must have bought a big house in the country, so he had to direct Kursk, about the Russian nuclear submarine that sunk and couldn’t be saved.

Conventional and boring. But I can’t imagine how this story could be told in any interesting way. 

With Lars Brygmann (in a ”normal” person role) and a cameo by Max Von Sydow.

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Another unforgettable Max Von Sydow role, as “Joubert”, in my all-time favorite film, Sydney Pollack’s best, Three Days of the Condor.

“...It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift...”

The perfect thriller which I’ve seen at least 12-15 times, and will probably see again and again. Dave Grusin’s score is superb. It’s also one of the most Christmasy movies I know. 

10/10

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2 scars:

✳️✳️✳️ The original Pre-Production Code, Howard Hawks Scarface, inspired by Al Capone, and the archetype of the gangster film. “This picture is an indictment of gang rule in America and of the callous indifference of the government to this constantly increasing menace to our safety and our liberty”. I never realized that there was some comedy and (lovely!) cabaret singing in it.

✳️✳️✳️ Oliver Stone’s 1983 Scarface, with Hector Salamanca as “Alberto” and Harris Yulin as Mel Bernstein!

40 years later, it’s just a bit too long - could use a little trim.

You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy."

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A short YT clip of clips from Kubrick’s films, from FilmoteCanet Cinema which has hundreds more.

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Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, with Gene Wilder as the doctor who falls in love with an Armenian sheep, Burt Reynolds and Lynn Redgrave. In hindsight, not as lecherous as remembered, but very 1972.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Lady Bird Adora.

Daniel Clowes Adora.

La Luna Adora.

Three Days of the Condor Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

[basedkikuenjoyer]

This one’s also a little Rakugo reference double feature when Kin’emon and Kanjuro meet. It’s just their dialogue using a pun based on lettuce from a story called Summer Doctor. I’mma be honest, this one eluded me. There is pretty much nothing freely available in English that can give me a summary but Oda confirms it in an SBS. Cool how that’s an element of our first meeting between the two. He’s clearly a fan and honestly, I love it for Wano’s themes. An art style built around one person juggling three roles. 

He also adds a pretty cheeky one in hindsight. The next bit is also from a Rakugo...about an extremely talented artist who draws a sparrow which comes to life. I wish it were easier to find more info on these but sadly there isn’t a lot. It’s cool though, I hope we get SBS questions asking about some I just know are flying under the radar in Wano. Kanjuro’s name is supposedly a reference as well.

I know it’s just rehashing what’s there. By the way it’s actually 754, Making Acquaintance. But I was in a mood and you know what? I do gots a good one from the SBS for you. First, since you came all this way I do want to offer something. We mentioned this concept with Monet and Kin’emon’s intro on Punk Hazard. She was always flitting around. As we introduce the samurai we’ll travel with, we seed themes for Kiku in plain sight right next to them. It’s next to Kanjuro’s intro too. Dig it:

Rebecca and Kyros fit the mold for similar thematic territory sure, but uh...Cabbage? The hothead prettyboy with an uncontrollable “demon” side? He’s a beautiful doofus but right as Kin is meeting Kanjuro he does step up complete with the “game” motif. Compare here to crashing Bakura. It’s the same concept. Cavendish and a lot of the Grand Fleet captains (coughOrlumbuscough) do legitimately have a piece of what Luffy needs. But of course, he’s too vain and can’t control Hakuba. Bickering about getting to be the star that takes down Doffy. But not before...being the one to cut straight through the bullshit. 

This is nothing but Cavendish showing he is actually a capable captain in his own right and does have some degree of wisdom. Looking at it though y’all, it hit me like a ton of bricks. The Birdcage is making Dressrosa into Wano. Closed off. This “game” is the exact nationwide manhunt the Wano plan was trying to avoid. But the craziest one is Cabbage laying in the exact logic we saw about Udon. The critical blunder of concentrating your resistance. I’d still say Kiku’s is a little more impressive but this is still a rare level of getting the big idea across to Luffy and it showcases a very perceptive side of Cavendish. Using a very easy to compare example with Kiku & Bakura/Udon later. This kind of thing is why One Piece can be a little “repetitive.” It’s a great way to chart Luffy’s growth. Okay though, last little SBS thing. It’s small but dammit...

Remember the thing about Wano being a Rashomon plot? This is the SBS page with “Pirate Alliance.” For no dam reason Oda name drops Ryunosuke. Cute! Nah, that author is famous for a fair few novels and short stories. One called Rashomon that isn’t exactly the same thing as the movie, but he did write In a Grove which was the book the movie was retelling. And the novel Rashomon does deal heavily with a relevant question, is it right to steal to survive? The specific example of a woman stealing hair is in there. Just really interesting to see this hanging out with the start of the samurai plotline.

[queensconquest]

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[Send Alt! to see a character I played in the past, want to play, or play elsewhere]

PLAY ELSEWHERE: Akutagawa from Bungou Stray Dogs

   The Port Mafia’s hellhound was out for blood once more, walking up behind the small group attempting to see Port Mafia goods. These punks didn’t stand a single chance. “Rashomon.” Immediately the creature formed from his black coat, red glow and lightening dancing along it as it towered above its wielder. “You shouldn’t have tried to mess with the Port Mafia.”

   Merciless grey eyes watched as the color drained from their faces, throwing themselves onto the ground at Akutagawa’s feet to grovel for their lives. How he despised this display. It reminded him of that stupid weretiger. How pathetic to need approval to live; you don’t get permission, you MAKE the world and Death let you live. “Spare your breath.” He slowly turned around, beginning to walk away with his black coat fluttering behind him, Rashomon vanishing. He could hear them letting out a brief sigh of relief, too stupid to see the black and red sharpened tendrils which pierced their hearts and slaughtered the entire group without a single scream managing to escape into the night. Once done, the bodies were tossed carelessly aside and the tendrils vanished back into the coat.

   Akutagawa pulled out his phone, dialed a well known number, and spoke. “Done. Next?”

[deathmetaldads]

EPISODE 37 - SWEDISH DEATH METAL DADS (with DANIEL EKEROTH)

Shelby and Aesop sit down with accomplished author (Swedish Death Metal, Violent Italy, Swedish Sensationsfilms) and musician (Insision, Iron Lamb, Diskonto, Third Storm, Tyrant, Usurpress, Dellamorte, etc) Daniel Ekeroth to discuss his career in extreme media, from the punk and hardcore roots of metal to the European influx of B-movie slasher and horror films to the undeniable fact that Finland doesn't actually exist. It's a surreal, over-saturated giallo of discourse, culminating in a tense, horrifying shocker of a finale--leaving all participants confused, blood-covered, and wielding large kitchen knives.

What else? Well: Band Economics 101, People Are Allowed To Have Opinions, Dario Argento's Comic Book Store, Born-Again Christian Harry Reems, Drunk At The Gym, A Miserable Small Town In Northern Sweden Ripped Wide Open By Napalm Death, Yngwie J. Malmsteen Smoking Crack Inside of A Hollowed-Out Marshall Cabinet, Japanese Hardcore And You And Me, Aesop's Cool Story About The Nocturnus Book He Didn't Write (Extended, Remixed Version), Exactly One Hundred Years of Censorship, Let The Write One In, The Day Burzum Ruined Everything, Where The Fish Are Made of Candy, Remembering The Alamo (Drafthouse), Dismember-ing The Malmö (Sweden), Drinking Vodka Whilst Driving And Also Yelling At Pedestrians, Sacramento: California's Finland, Wishing A Speedy Recovery To Lemmy Kilmeister, Daniel Tells That Same Story Everyone Has About Their Mom Throwing Out All Their Old Star Wars And Ninja Turtles Action Figures Except It's About Obscure Death Metal Demos This Time, Floridian Methamphetamines And The Bentonomicon, Krug Life, Talkin' Vomitory, The Shape of Cum To Punk, The Malort Connection, Enamel Pin Chat, Last Houses: On The Lefts vs On Dead End Streets, Cult Movie Convention Etiquette, Remember When Voivod Covered The Batman Theme Song?, That Tacqueria In Oslo, Norway That The Guy From Wall of Voodoo Owns, Death Lays An Egg, An Amuse Bouche of Riffs, 100 Beers A Day From 1985 To 1995, "Rashomon" Except It's A Sex Comedy, A Sandwich (The Wegetarian Wersion), No Klingon Dick, The Time Aesop Punched Shelby At The Ruby Room, Beach Friend, Hat Talk, Nap Eyes, Overwhelming Colorfast (Again), Jackin' It To Swedish Aviation Magazines, Les Schwab: Pride And Performance, "The Chicago Handshake", Cutlering Books, Porn And Toilets, Un-Nice Scene Beef, 3 People In A Shitty Hotel Wayyy Outside Baltimore, Kind Of Goblinlike, Rancid Shit, Soft Puke, Torsos, The DMD Bump, and, as always, Fatherly Advice. Not gonna lie, this is a really good episode. Well... It's ok. It's... It's at least better than that last one with Tony Molina.

Music:

Insision, "World Impaled"

Usurpress, "Interregnum"

Slamahoochee, "Denny's Lumberjack Slam Breakfast (Come Undone)(feat. Tony Molina)"

LISTEN

PS: That Korean horror movie from 2016 is "The Wailing", dammit.

[notdeadyettoronto]

Growing to be one of the longest running DIY festivals in Toronto, we are excited to announce the seventh year of NOT DEAD YET. This year's festival will be taking place October 12 - 15, 2017. It’s four full days & four loud nights of wall-to-wall Hardcore Punk Music!

This year’s highlights currently include the Toronto return of Baltimore's TRAPPED UNDER ICE, the first Toronto show ever for Portland’s inimitably noisy LEBENDEN TOTEN, a set from CRO-MAG powerhouse HARLEY FLANAGAN, Cleveland hardcore Maniacs INMATES, the digital terror of New York City’s L.O.T.I.O.N., the hardcore fury that is KRIMEWATCH and the maniac rhythms of MOMMY along with the Finnish force that is KOHTI TUHOA, the ferocious combo of ANTI-SEX & RIÑA from Ciudad de Mexico and many many more. Stay tuned for a second announcement in the coming weeks with even more bands!

As always, the goal is to fill the weekend with some of the best bands playing HC Punk today. No filler!

We aim to have the shows as accessible as possible but please note not all venues are accessible. Accessibility info will be available as specific shows are announced. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again - NOT DEAD YET is proud to be anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic and is generally opposed to any and all oppression. Let us take the opportunity, given the timing of this announcement to resoundingly say fuck the delusion of ‘celebrating 150 years of Canada.’ See you in October!

This year’s lineup currently includes…

1-900s Acrylics Anti-Sex Booji Boys Burden C.H.E.W. Collagen Druj Fried Egg Harley Flanagan Incendiary Inmates Kohti Tuhoa Kombat Krimewatch L.O.T.I.O.N. Lebenden Toten Marbled Eye Mommy Nosferatu Patsy Public Eye Rashomon Rik & the Pigs Rina Trapped under ice Vanilla Poppers Witchtrial

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