jesus fucking christ. i forgot how much the weeknd’s After Hours changed me when it came out. i haven’t listened to it in like two years and i’m. how did we forget about this fucking album guys
thinking about how in falsettos, hiv/aids is portrayed the way real illness often is: a sudden, devastating interruption to someone's life. march of the falsettos never brings up hiv/aids, and it's not until halfway through falsettoland that we get any indication that something's wrong. no foreshadowing, just immediate and unexpected pain.
we know these characters, there's time to love them for who they are before this happens to them. whizzer isn't just The AIDS Patient, marvin isn't just The Partner or The One Who's Next, charlotte isn't just The Doctor. they're people, and they had whole lives before any of this, and we as the audience get to see that. we see their friendship and their petty fights and their eventual love story and their redemption from their flaws.
they all have a trajectory their lives are on. and then disease comes along and crushes it and any hope for things to return to how it was. it's painfully realistic. by not talking about hiv/aids until it hits, it tells a more complete story of the aids crisis than a story that starts after the character's illness does.
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i've been casually collecting some cd singles mostly for the artwork and the novelty of it all tbh, but i got this and never knew there was a "guitars down" version of sugar :0 upon listening it seems the biggest differences with this vs the album version are:
the instrumentals/sustained controlled feedback that usually plays behind the prechoruses is also used between the chorus and the 2nd verse, over the normal chuggy riff
the backing vocal harmonies in the chorus seem to be significantly brought forward which sounds STUNNING, easily the highlight of this version
made it (+the music or the misery) available to download as a flac file here :)
Adaman: ...Are time capsules also that popular in the future?
Akari: lol no, literally no one wants to sit and wait for it. We can get mail in days to weeks depending on the distance. Who the hell wants to wait 10 or more years to get their own shit back
Another new Ever “Aftert” High song dropped boys! I think we’re beating a dead horse now at this point. Mattel is being cryptic as fuck, Allison Bloom doesn’t know what’s going on, let this show go back into its comatose state please and thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Whomever is in charge of the EAH Spotify account also sucks; if this really is a hacker, they’ve let them post three songs now. Like c’mon.
you and Jo met irl?!?!? Crazy where life takes you :’) I remember when you were on ihatebnha back in 2021 just startin out and now look at ya :’) travelling the world, meeting the moots you’ve made way back when irl?!
I hope you guys had fun!!!
yes!! irl!!!!!!! and it was so ... shocking? because when we went to go message each other abt the meetup on discord, it turned out our first message to each other was from 2021 too... CAN U BELIEVE THAT? like i obvs knew jo and i were friends in general now but seeing that really solidified something in my head as to how real an innernet friendship can be even when u don't see each other face to face.
anyway it was a 10000000/10 experience and YEAH, BEEN A WRITING BLOG SINCE 2020 baby!! rest in peace my dear ihb but she's the blog that got me here today so <3
Sorry to curse the dashboards of mankind with this film. But. chris is very pretty so its worth it. lorddd this movie is terrible, everyone says this about 90% of his filmography but dave is genuinely the only watchable part of this movie... I love you chris, pat doesn't deserve you 💔