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The 5th Annual Derrick Sanskrit "Everyone's a Critic" Awards (part one: music and movies)

(note: I have posted this thread on Twitter at the end of December for the past five years, but with that platform's future more dubious than ever, it makes sense to back up 2022's edition here)

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Time for the fifth annual Derrick Sanskrit "Everyone's a Critic" Awards for all the pop culture I thought was simply the best over the past twelve months.

There's so much, we're gonna slow-drip this year, so let's start with music...

Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack’s solo EP is seventeen minutes of just fantastic collaborations, including a reunion with Pin Me Down bandmate Milena Mepris. Had this been a full LP, it would be way higher in the rankings.

A top-to-bottom reworking of 2020’s New Symbols, this LP benefits from both two more years of Tom Vek’s reflection on his art as well as wider distribution on digital music platforms so people could actually hear it.

Nine years after his debut LP, the French DJ proves his mastery of timeless synth anthems with this album that feels like the soundtrack to a long lost John Hughes movie about sexy computer hackers.

It feels like cheating to include the soundtrack to a 2021 concert film in this list, but the album dropped in 2022 and it freaking rules so whatever. This is the sound of the Dan Greene Cinematic Universe.

A mostly-instrumental album of lush chiptune soundscapes, this high-def volume of Australian electronic anthems begs the question “why aren’t we having another chip resurgence right freakin’ now?” Danceable, worldly, melancholic, and beyond.

A timely reminder that indie rock can be snarky and clever without losing the charm of four-part harmonies and driving hooks. Like cherry red Doc Martens stomping through a field of sunflowers, The Beths show us how to suffer with a smirk.

No album this year felt as immediately BIG as the sophomore effort from this English post-rock phalanx. It commands attention before curling up in a ball to hide at your feet and whisper deep dark secrets in your ear.

Continuing her transformation from cloud rap to pop, Kilo Kish challenges conventions with this collection of toe-tapping bangers about societal woes, public image, self-worth, and the ills of consumerism, all framed within a retro arcade game.

A punk album so specifically of its time without immediately dating itself by naming names. A concept album about running a punk band like a business that comes to its logical conclusion: in-fighting, ego clashes, bankruptcy, and thanking the sponsors.

Simply the best breakup album in ages (sorry Swifties). Cutthroat and callous, honest and earnest, this math rock sophomore LP challenges pop song structure as much as relationships challenge the edges of individual identity.

Wasn't that so much fun? So many fantastic albums in 2022, such wonderful songs to sing and dance to. Good times.

And now, our second category... it's time to talk about MOVIES...

The vainglorious adventures of an aspiring podcaster focusing largely on the culture clash between New York and Texas. Quite possibly the best performance ever from Ashton Kutcher.

While this mock-rock-doc never reaches the parodic highs of Weird Al’s previous “UHF,” the extended Funny Or Die sketch carries heaps of charm with an all-star cast of comedy cameos.

Easily the most unexpected film of the year, this holiday horror fusion brings all the delirious twists and turns you’d expect from the creator of “Too Many Cooks.”

Simply the biggest, boldest, wildest action movie to date, RRR offers more spectacle per minute than Zack Snyder does in an hour, while still finding plenty of time to sing and dance.

Jordan Peele’s third horror film forgoes shocks and scares in favor of slow burn dread with thoroughly enjoyable examinations of race, media, exploitation, and religion.

This celebration of the power of art to question authority and buck societal norms poses the question “what if Freddy Mercury and Jimi Hendrix were best friends in feudal Japan?”

Simply the most fun I had in a movie theater all year. A fast, stylish, star-studded action farce, like Guy Ritchie directing a script by the Coen Brothers, this film taught me more about Thomas the Tank Engine than my nephews ever will.

Proving Knives Out wasn’t a one-off fluke, Rian Johnson delivers a whodunnit with bigger stakes, bigger stars, bigger spectacle, and bigger laughs. A covid-era mystery for Agatha Christie fans of any age.

In their second feature, the Daniels have produced what feels like a once-in-a-generation iconic piece of cinema. Sweeping & grandiose, intimate & delicate, EEAAO is the sci-fi family immigrant tale we never knew we so desperately needed.

The most I’ve cried in the theater since Toy Story 3. Marcel’s journey will melt the most frozen of hearts and make you believe that anything is possible with a positive outlook.

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"Crying Out For Love" by Tom Vek https://ift.tt/5gZnbd7

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Tom Vek, "The Lower The Sun" #NowPlaying

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If it's not too much trouble, and you are still doing them, please can I have a Rory playlist?❤❤❤

Of course, Rory!!! I'd be delighted to:

Real Pain by Indigo De Souza Oldest Troubles by Michael Ian Cummings Rough Going (I Wont Let Up) by Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam You'll Stay by Tom Vek

Send me your name and i’ll make a mini playlist with the letters in your name

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Okay my friends, here it is, Radio Free California Episode 2419. Included in the 42 songs I've selected this week is new music this week from Snarls, Tom Vek, Hana Vu, Kid Moon, Mary Spender, Hollow Head, Work Wife, Lola Young, Deep Purple, Sia and much more. Enjoy!

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Nothing but green lights from here: A roommate! Bucky x g/n reader fic

Genre: angst, fluff, moping about in a car

Warnings: References to therapy

Summary: Bucky is having a tough time at therapy, so you decide to take him on a drive to cheer him up. 

This fic contains quotes from two Chelsea Wolfe songs, Anhedonia (with Emma Ruth Rundle) and Flatlands, and is also named after a Tom Vek song. I’m sorry I’m like this. 

Nothing but green lights from here

You drove along the beach road as the sun was setting. The windows were down a crack, ocean air flowing in and stroking your face. 

Lights were being switched on in houses, making you feel at once cosy and like an outsider, shut out forever. People you’d never meet, quietly getting on with life. 

Still, if you were shut out, you weren’t alone. 

Bucky stared at the scenery sliding by outside. Being driven had always made you feel safe, and it seemed to be giving him a measure of peace too, the sensation of movement, the constantly-changing coast. 

You were glad you’d encouraged him back into therapy, but he looked wrung out by the experience when you’d picked him up today. So you thought you’d take him somewhere pretty, to cheer him up. 

A sultry voice sang from the stereo -

So don't come looking for me,  I’ve got no joy to lend Protect myself like a fortress,  Isolating, bridge withdrawing Isolated, I can't take it -

-  wrapping you both in your own private world. Not music he was familiar with, but one that conjured a certain type of feeling. Music that could soundtrack pain, in your experience; a magic world, a dark beauty, suited to a man with such a past. 

Spontaneously, you pulled into a car park. Chelsea fell silent as you cut the engine. You got out and he wordlessly followed. 

You padded over the sand and clambered onto the rocks, watching the indigo sky and listening to the water babble and crash. Standing on the moonscape, you gazed at the thin lines of foam forming and cresting the swells of water as the last of the daylight melted away. 

You could hear him breathing softly next to you, shifting his weight, absorbed in his surroundings. 

After a few minutes you turned and looked at him directly, a question on your face. He nodded, and you moved back towards the warmth of the car. 

You drove through the quiet streets as the voice murmured from the speakers. 

“So I have something to ask you Bucky,” you said eventually.

“Hmm?”

“Should we get drive-thru?”

He laughed for the first time since you’d picked him up. 

“I thought you’d never ask.”

~

You spread the food out between you on the bonnet of the car, gazing down at the city lights below. He took a huge first bite of his burger and his eyes rolled back in his head. “Wuuurgh,” he groaned, his mouth full. 

You snickered, taking a handful of fries. “Feeling better dear?” 

This elicited another, louder “wuuurgh” in response, and you were glad he’d decided on two burgers. 

He inhaled the first one and screwed the paper into a ball. 

“Thanks, y/n. This was just what I needed tonight.” 

“Anything for you, Bucks.” 

“Can we get burgers after every therapy session?” He asked, swatting your hand away from the fries so he could grab some. 

“Oy, eat your own fries. Sounds like a good idea.”

“Gonna be a long road,” he said reflectively, picking up the second burger and gearing up for round two. 

“Yeah. But you’re stronger than you know. And you’re not alone.”

“Very profound statement from someone with ketchup on their face.” 

You rolled your eyes, smiling and ignoring the wobble in his voice. “Eat your food.”

~

He fell asleep on the drive home like a child. You stole a glance every now and then, the streetlights illuminating his relaxed, handsome face. 

You hadn’t had much of a plan when you got together. You were both complicated people with questionable pasts. But at least for now, it was working. 

“I want flatlands I want simplicity I need your arms Wrapped hard around me…”

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Tom Vek, "The Lower The Sun"

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Just Another Menace Sunday #1053 w/ Bleach Lab

New Shows Sundays 4pm EST bombshellradio.com Repeats Wednesdays 1pm EST and Fridays 6pm EST Archival Shows available on bombshellradiopodcasts.com "Just Another Menace Sunday" radio thing. Hour 1: A Conversation from SXSW with Bleach Lab and their Musical Sandwich. Hour 2: New Melodic Rock 'n Roll from: THE BUG CLUB, Miley Cyrus (Talking Heads) Shannon & The Clams, GUPPY, Blondshell, Beadadoobee, Wilt, Moby, Cara Paige, Bad With Phones, The National (Talking Heads,) Nada Surf, The The, Tom Vek, Islands and THE BUG CLUB (Again!)   This Week – Episode #1053 A CONVERSATION FROM SXSW WITH BLEACH LAB AND THEIR MUSICAL SANDWICH! (05/19/2024) Theme Song Just Another Menace Sunday Theme (Dennis The Menace) - Mighty Six Ninety Hour 1 A CONVERSATION FROM SXSW WITH BLEACH LAB AND THEIR MUSICAL SANDWICH! OPENING SONG: Everything At Once – Bleach Lab THE BLEACH LAB MUSICAL SANDWICH! TOP BREAD: Old Way – Bleach Lab Pain – War On Drugs Beth/Rest – Bon Iver Sugar For The Pill – Slowdive Halloween – Novo Amour Fade Into You – Mazzy Star In Between Days – The Cure Dreams – Fleetwood Mac Losing You – Randy Newman I Kicked A Boy – The Sundays BOTTOM BREAD: All Night – Bleach Lab Hour 2 NEW MELODIC ROCK & ROLL! OPENING SONG: Quality Pints – The Bug Club (Sub Pop) Psycho Killer – Miley Cyrus (A24) UFO – Shannon & The Clams (Easy Eye/Concord) Texting & Driving – GUPPY (Lauren) Send Me An Angel – Blondshell (A24) Take A Bite – beadadoobee (Dirty Hit) Every Now And Then – Wilt (Self Release) Where Is Your Pride – Moby (Mute) 2-23 – Cara Paige (Self Release) Drive – Bad With Phones (Don’t Sleep/PIAS) Heaven – The National (A24) In Front Of Me Now – Nada Surf (New West) Cognitive Dissonance – The The (Cineola) All I See Is You – Tom Vek (Self Release) The End – Islands (ELF) CLOSING SONG: Quality Pints – The Bug Club (Sub Pop)   Read the full article

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loving the new tom vek ep, really inspiring me to get back in the studio

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Srebrenica je prošlost, sadašnjost i budućnost Srbije

“Uzaludna su sva nastojanja današnjih sledbenika mračne ubilačke ideologije koja je pokrenula ratove i počinila jezive zločine da se trenutak suočavanja ukine, on može samo da se odloži, ali to se ne može raditi u beskraj” Piše: Tomislav Marković „Ponekad ni čitav ljudski vek nije dovoljan da bi se prihvatila neka ekstremno teška krivica. U tom smislu su Nemci koji su kao odrasli ljudi…

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Eunchae

Jméno postavy: Oksana Ilyina (Hong Eunchae) Pozice: Študentka Ročník: 4. ročník Klub: Dramatický klub Národnost: Rusko/Kórea

Backstory: V srdci Ruska, uprostred mrazivého vetra a zasneženej krajiny, prišla na svet Eunchae. Narodila sa do rodiny plnej nepokojov a jej prvé roky života boli poznačené tieňmi krutosti otca. Napriek krutosti, sa jej starší brat stal jej neochvejným ochrancom, majákom svetla v ich búrlivom domove. Euncheine spomienky na tie časy sú rozmazané, zahmlené bolesťou z výchovy. Ich neskôr matka urobila rozhodnutie dať ich na adopciu, či už v snahe nájsť a dopriať im šancu na lepší život alebo sa ich prosto zbaviť, to Eunchae už nevedela. Odlúčená od svojho brata sa Eunchae ocitla v náručí novej rodiny, ktorá je plná láskavosti a hojnosti. Napriek jazvám z minulosti Eunchae pod ich starostlivosťou prekvitala, jej duch bol nezlomený a odhodlanie neochvejné. Euncheina vášeň pre herectvo žiarila popri jej ďalších záujmoch. Od mladosti ju uchvacovalo kúzlo javiska, očarila ju transformačná sila rozprávania príbehov. S každou úlohou, ktorú prijala, vdýchla postavám život a vyjadrila emócie s hĺbkou, ktorá popierala jej vek. Jej cesta začínajúcej herečky v školskom dramatickom krúžku sa nezaobišla bez výziev. Konkurzy boli nervy drásajúce, odmietnutie bolo trpkou pilulkou na prehltnutie. S každým neúspechom sa však Eunchae stávala silnejšou a jej odhodlanie bolo neochvejné. Usilovne a oddane sa zdokonaľovala a využívala každú príležitosť na rast a učenie. Keď stála na javisku a vyhrievala sa v žiari potlesku, Eunchae vedela, že našla svoje poslanie. Herectvo bolo viac než len koníček, bolo to jej životné lano, vyjadrovací prostriedok, ktorý jej umožňoval prekročiť hranice reality a spojiť sa s ostatnými na hlbšej úrovni. S každou ďalšou úlohou, ktorej sa Eunchae zhostila, jej vášeň pre herectvo len silnela a podporovala jej odhodlanie presadiť sa vo svete zábavy. A hoci cesta k úspechu môže byť dlhá a kľukatá, kráča po nej s neochvejnou sebadôverou a vie, že jej sny sú na dosah, ak sa za nimi odváži ísť. Eunchae často myslela na svojho staršieho brata, vytrvalého spoločníka z detstva. Svojej adoptívnej rodine bola za všetko vďačná a zbožňovala ich, no v jej srdci pretrvávala bolesť - túžba po tom, kto bol jej ochrancom a dôverníkom. Každý jej dotaz sa stretol s vyhýbavými odpoveďami a jemnými napomenutiami, takže Eunchae mala viac otázok ako odpovedí. Odopierali jej možnosť stretnúť sa s biologickou matkou, od ktorej v podstate chcela len jedno - informácie o jej bratovi. Kde bol. Ako sa mal. Hoci si vážila lásku a privilégiá, ktorými ju obdarila jej adoptívna rodina, zostávala v nej prázdnota, ktorú nemohlo vyplniť žiadne materiálne bohatstvo ani náklonnosť. V tichých chvíľach samoty sa strácala v spomienkach na brata, jeho smiech sa ozýval v zákutiach jej mysle, jeho prítomnosť bola upokojujúca, túžila si ju znovu získať. Napriek svojej túžbe sa Eunchae neodvážila vzoprieť želaniu svojej adoptívnej rodiny. Chápala, že ich úmysly pramenia z lásky a ochrany, no bolesť v srdci pretrvávala a neustále jej pripomínala puto, ktoré ju spájalo s bratom - puto, ktoré prekonávalo čas a vzdialenosť. A tak pokračovala ďalej, preplávala zložitosťou svojej dvojitej existencie s gráciou a odolnosťou a zároveň si uchovávala nádej, že jedného dňa ju osud opäť spojí s chýbajúcim kúskom jej duše - s jej milovaným bratom. Hoci jej črty niesli pozostatky ťažkej minulosti, z Eunchainho správania vyžarovala milosť a láskavosť. Jej duch zostal nezlomený a jej srdce prekypovalo súcitom. S neochvejnou podporou svojej adoptívnej rodiny sa s odhodlaním venovala svojim vášňam a vytvárala si budúcnosť plnú nádeje a možností. A hoci cesta pred ňou môže byť plná výziev, Eunchae vie, že s láskou v srdci a silou v duši dokáže prekonať všetko, čo sa jej postaví do cesty.

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