#quarantine music

[dustedmagazine]

Pan·American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Photo by Luka Nelson

The Patience Fader by Pan•American

Pan•American slows time to a liquid crawl. In this long-running solo project, Mark Nelson lets the long tones of guitar, lap steel and harmonica unfurl slowly, dropping like black ink into clear water and spreading in whorls and tendrils. It is perhaps worth noting that Nelson composed and recorded these tunes as a form of instrumental practice, working unhurriedly on technique until a musical idea emerged. It is also possibly relevant that they took shape during the COVID-19 lockdown though Nelson’s solo work has always had a meditative, solitary air, or that Nelson’s father was in the process of dying as he wrote them, though grief and memory have also been woven through Pan•American’s slow blooming reveries.

The Patience Fader is very much in line with 2019’s pensive A Son, but the new record quotes American folk traditions less directly. You hear, at intervals, the ghost of an old song shivering through these abstract meditations, but nothing as literal as Nelson’s version of “Shenandoah.” Indeed, even hide-bound instruments like harmonica take on spectral, electrifying forms. In “Corniel,” their wheezing tones have been altered to a glitchy ideal, vibrating with altered timbre and resonances. Elsewhere, well-known sounds like pedal steel take on a surreal, enveloping clarity. “The North Line” delivers bending, arcing, aching notes as if they’ve been dipped in amber, caught in mid-transformation and frozen there. “Harmony Conversion” does with knocking percussion, making it so clear and sharp that it seems unreal, rather than oozing currents of guitar tone. 

Nelson’s music is ambient in that it surrounds and envelopes you. You don’t so much listen to it as inhabit it. But it’s anything but background music. You can’t listen with half an ear. You can’t absorb it while you’re driving or working at your job on headphones or cooking dinner. “Wooster, Ohio,” with its translucent shifting layers of tone, its clarion harmonica, is too full of anticipation and immanence. Hissing, whooshing “Grounded” is too intriguing a mixture of pure tone and decay not to stop and listen fully as it evolves. 

We’re months late reviewing The Patience Fader, because of the usual tedious reasons (the first writer assigned got busy). But in a way, the record feels like it lives outside of time and deadlines and release dates. It’s not often that music can stop the rush so clearly and beautifully. It tunes into another reality. 

Jennifer Kelly

[fleetn-crab85]

hello again everyone! I just want to thank everyone who interacted with the last post about the LEGO Newsies! I genuinely wasn't expecting it to take off like that! A lot of you asked for more, so this is a side by side between the actual Seize The Day dance break and our LEGO version. I hope you all enjoy!

ALSO: I'm going to be using the tag #lego newsies for any more posts about it!

Feel free to leave a comment or reblog with what you'd like to see next!

[ladydevena]

His antlers won’t fit (😔) so I’m giving him a sword instead. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[video-game-jams]

.hack//QUARANTINE - Ending

[xx-all-purpose-nerd-xx]

I miss having the time to listen to/create playlists set to a theme while doing nothing else and just absorbing the music and analyzing how it connects to the playlist’s theme.

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

normalize crying for your lost childhood while listening to the newsies (movie AND broadway) soundtrack

[lesbianseaweed]

fuck live action remakes, the only good adaptations are stage musical remakes

[forlorngarden]

bo burnham should start licensing theatres to show inside as one man musical shows

[seokmashu]

Zeroses~ I'm doing well with Taerae so you don't have to worry about us ❤️ Tomorrow is Sunday! I ate pancakes every weekend in Canada I want to recommend it to you! [Gyubin says I can't cook ㅠㅠ ] Cooking with Matthew 👨‍🍳: - pancake mix - Water (or for a richer taste use almond milk) * mix until the texture is thick (if the batter is too watery the pancake will fall apart) - make sure to have a nonstick pan and put heat to medium * try to only flip pancake once!!! Then they taste better * Lots of trial and error needed to learn kekeke My favorite toppings on 🥞 - Banana 🍌 and peanut 🥜 - Strawberry 🍓 and whipped cream 🍦 - Nutella and a side of maple syrup Dessert: - mix frozen blueberries🫐 with yogurt 😋 If you eat it like this, your stomach will be happy. If your stomach is happy then you will be happy and then I will be happy too. So let's always be happy hahaha I love you~

Seok Matthew — Twitter Update 230805

[sophisticatedswifts]

I can’t stop thinking about it, it was such a touching tribute

[intrasport]

oh i fuckiong love omnium gatherum whatever

[absolutebl]

Hi again absolutebl! I was reading this BL manga and I realized that I enjoy a certain seme-uke pairing: soft reliable seme + feisty uke. Do you have any recs for BLs with this dynamic? The best example I can think of is Shi De and Shu Yi in WBL.

I know I just sent an ask about two days ago but I couldn't resist asking this. Thank you as always! I hope you are always happy and healthy.

Hi again!!! Always welcome. 

Soft Reliable (devoted) Seme + Feisty Uke

(Like Shi De and Shu Yi in We Best Love.) 

Ooo, fun request! So explicitly NOT a tsundere or a himbo seme. But the uke could probubly be tsundere. 

Seven Days (what you doubt me?) - Japan, grey 

Of course it rates. Seryou & Yuzuru don’t have a very strong S/u dynamic but Seryou is (basically) the pursuer and he is soft AF. Yuzuru isn’t so much tsundere as he is obstreperous. I consider this one of the best live action yaois ever made, with perfectly structured angst, fantastic characters and acting, and no problematic tropes (rare in Japanese BL). The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses. 

Light on Me - Korea, Viki

Very much a high school setting and low heat, but this is still one of my favorite KBLs. It’s an elegant pastiche of traditional live action yaoi but all tropes are cleverly deployed to bolster one of the most riveting love triangles ever put on screen… and I don’t like love triangles! Both semes are super soft. Full review. 

Make it Right - Thailand, YouTube 

The original Thai version of this dynamic. Tee is unequivocally devoted to Fuse from the moment they first get together. Fuse is more chaos bi: cheating, messy and confused (as is common with the high school stuff) but I think it’s the dynamic you’re after. What more can I say about this show, the origin of the Thai BL pulps? It’s objectively terrible, and not just the leads but the side couples too, and yet I love it. I tend to call myself the “world’s foremost Make It Right apologist.” I recognize the issues but I find it utterly charming, especially Tee’s utter devotion to Fuse the disaster.

SOTUS - Thailand, YouTube

The follow up version to Make it Right, but less soft. This is the BL that launched a hundred BLs. No literally, It was SOTUS’s international success that pretty much built the Thai BL industry into the juggernaut it is today. It’s classic sunshine/tsundere, but Kong is very steadfast and soft. People have baggage around SOTUS, I have nostalgia. trigger: hazing and bullying. 

Manner of Death - Thailand, WeTV 

Honestly I think this one qualifies. This is TanBun’s dynamic. I like MoD a lot but I’m conflicted over it being actually BL. It’s a great gay romantic suspense, although the mystery element is its weakness. MaxTul, the Kings of chemistry, are, of course, perfect and perfectly cast, but their romance thread is more a distraction than an addition. Still, I could watch them make-out the phonebook. Trash watch here.

Nitiman - Thailand, YouTube

This show was so close to being brilliant. They fudged the ending but this is probubly one of Thailand’s most classic takes on uni set yaoi with this exact dynamic. This Thai BL pulp had sympathetic characters, a solid tsundere uke redemption arc, and a fantastic pining seme who yearned without bullying, grooming, or gaslighting. Plus when they're together, they're ridiculously soft. But it also had a realistic portrayal of university life, bisexual awakening, and friendship groups. Bummer about the ending. Full review. 

Dear Doctor, I’m Coming For Your Soul - Thailand, iQIYI 

This is a romance between a doctor trying to save his patients and a reaper who is both his enemy and (eventual) lover. Basically it’s the genius premise of a gay Doom at Your Service. High concept looks good on you, Thailand. It’s lovely to see KarnNat back on screen together and they are still great, and Karn is just painfully beautiful. I enjoyed it more than it’s ending deserved, and the best I can say is that it’s not strictly HEA but if you’re okay with Life: Love on the Line, you’ll be okay with this BL. It’s set up well, there’s no surprise unpleasantness like HIStory 3: The BL that shall not be named. Full review.

En of Love: Tossera - Thailand, YouTube 

Basically the softest BL ever Bar is feisty, but it’s kinda token tsundere. Younger boy wants to court older boy and does and… that’s it. No really that’s the WHOLE STORY. There is actually no angst, drama, or, indeed plot. But are they the softest bois ever to BL as a main couple? Yes, they are.

Cherry Magic - Japan, indie subbed

AKA 30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii

Kurosawa is certainly soft but Adachi is maybe more chaos confused than feisty. (Another one like this is My Love Mix Up.) This is the sweetest fluffiest magical realism BL, packaged as a pinning office romance, very low heat (practically chaste) but the cutest. 

Mr. Unlucky Can Only Kiss - Japan, Viki (fan subbed) 

AKA Fukou-kun wa Kiss Suru Shikanai! AKA Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss!

Mr Chronically Unlucky (another adorable chaos muffin) and Mr Always Lucky (solid, steadfast, crushing from the start) end up dating after they meet at uni orientation. It’s JAPAN yet they kissed in the first episode. What freaky alt-reality did I enter into? That’s all they kiss tho, over which I was a touch disappointed (I know). Still I spent far too much of my time with this show biting my knuckles and squealing “THEY’RE SO CUTE!” It is very slapstick Japanese style comedic (light) BL, so if you like that style, you’ll adore this show. 

Amusing story: I paused mid the most tooth-achingly adorable first date in the entire universe and Viki was like “something missing?” and I was like “MY HEART YOU BASTARDS!” 

Word of Honor - China censored, YouTube & Viki 

I don’t rec Chinese stuff often, because I believe in censoring the censors, but this show is one of my favorites of the post 2016 censored bromances. It’s two murder-gay assassins (pining sunshine/tsundere), and they are so insanely gay for two boys who will never be allowed to kiss. Tropes include: wuxia, soulmates, paranormal, historical, and fantasy elements.

Maybe?

KOREA

Some More (Strongberry short)

Blueming  

Peach of Time (Korea/Thailand - sad) 

Spring of Crush (bromance)

THAILAND

1000 Stars 

Bite Me (but it’s NOT good) 

Brothers (sp KhunKaow) 

Cupid’s Last Wish  

Enchante  

Secret Crush on You (side couple SkyJao) 

Siew Sum Noi  

TharnType  

What Zabb Man?  

Y-Destiny (the YoonLayPerth ep) 

ELSEWHERE 

Silhouette of Your Voice - Japan 

Rainbow Prince - Pinoy (musical) 

See You After Quarantine - Taiwan 

Sort of this dynamic but there isn’t much seme/uke 

remember Taiwan likes to futz with seme/uke 

 HIStory 2: Crossing the Line 

some of the other HIStory maybe, although they often lean himbo 

Be Loved In House: I Do - (My original blog post on seme/uke was spawned because of these two)

My Day 

Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart

Second Chance

My Esport Genius Brother

Mr Cinderella 

Others maybe related to this?

Strong Seme/Uke But Still Gentle 

(source) 

[firstonestodie]

ONE BILLION DAY FUNERAL

[not-that-n]

I think something I always wanted to portray in my art but have never properly been able to is that weird feeling of finding something again, something incredibly mundane that at simple glance holds no meaning but because of x or y reason it has. Like a food stand that you and a friend decided to try years ago in a cold night, finding it years later and thinking about that now long gone friendship. Like finding a video that's linked to a horrible time in your life, and just seeing it again in a new context, feeling like everything has changed since that first time, feeling that nothing has changed.

That sort of abstract thing that's really hard to verbalize because it's such a fleeting experience usually, that's melancholic even if it isn't sad, is something I've no clue how to properly portray but damn, I've always wanted to

[neverlandmylove]

i miss watching anime and being weird lowk