darklyndivinely

[darklyndivinely]

Rhapsody of Northern Lights (x x x x x)

[darklyndivinely]

Alex Turner with Mike McKee in Brooklyn, New York

May 10, 2024

#alex turner #post the car era

[darklyndivinely]

Martin Podt

[darklyndivinely]

”they’re brothers 🥺” those are unrelated grown men who fuck raw

#charles and erik

[darklyndivinely]

“but it wasn’t that bad”

did it hurt? did you feel scared? unsafe? were you embarrassed? humiliated? terrified? did you feel confused on why? does it keep you up at night? do you avoid being in a similar situation? did you cry? did you want to cry? who told you it wasn’t that bad?

[darklyndivinely]

bunny i saw on a hike ⛰️⛅

[darklyndivinely]

Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows? 

[darklyndivinely]

[darklyndivinely]

Life is all about being really scared and wasting your youth

[darklyndivinely]

Lead them to paradise.

#so beautiful #dune 2 #dune

[darklyndivinely]

People fucking love it when you bend over backwards for them huh. Start setting boundaries and suddenly you're "so difficult."

#i get personal... again

[darklyndivinely]

The sexual tension between a girl and not feeling real every time her birthday comes around

[darklyndivinely]

If you had to guess based on nothing but your own feelings lol what do you think alex's love language would be?

i'm not sure if i believe that each person is mainly defined by one love language, i think we all contain multitudes. or that there's even only 5 of them, for that matter

but then agan let's pretend that i do lol. for the sake of discussion bc this seems like a fun thing to answer

physical touch. and it's not close

and like what do you mean based on nothing. i'm a person of facts, we work with evidence in this house

when it comes to his girlfriends, most of the pics and videos we have of them together they have linked arms, or are holding hands, or are kissing

in his lyrics, whenever the subject is a romantic partner he tends to describe his devotion through physical acts. you know that tweet that got famous a while back that said something along the lines of "alex turner has never said 'i love you' in a song and i think that's beautiful"? that's SO true. he's always talking about kisses:

hugs:

and other forms of physical touch:

when it comes to his bandmates, he's SO affectionate with them. when they're doing interviews he sits flush next to them, touching thighs and/or arms:

during photoshoots he often has his arms around them or they have theirs around him:

he loves hugging them and touching them in general in his casual life:

and like of course. the elephant in the room that is miles. it's hard to even describe succinctly what he has going on with miles when it comes to physical contact. they have something special and very natural, it's like they always have to be touching. alex is the one who starts it the most, and it's often absent-mindedly. let me just drop these here (the tip of the iceberg):

my final point ruling out the other 4 love languages:

words of affirmation: probably the one that represents him the least, he actually doesn't like compliments or praise

receiving gifts: the other one that actually also represents him the least lol, he's not materialistic at all. and his "i don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people" quote comes to mind lol

quality time: probably the second one that represents him after physical touch! loves chatting and laughing for hours and hours with his friends and partners, watching movies with them, going out to bars and restaurants, sitting down and cracking songs together with them etc but still always has a tendency towards isolation, so

acts of service: this one is the middle of the ranking, i think. what comes to mind is miles cooking breakfast for them during the making of the eycte album, but also alex carrying miles' luggage when they were touring. can't think of much else, so this is why it's a mid for me. he's pretty selfless but also needy, so this is why i think sometimes he acts on both ends through this one

[darklyndivinely]

chris_bloodfilms Met my hero on a train. This story is long so scroll if you cba reading. It’s 2005, a band explodes on MySpace. They’re dressed like you and their lyrics are a mirror to your life. Bleeding heck, who the fuck are the Arctic Monkeys? After 19 years on repeat it’s now 2024. Myself and @/conor_bloodfilms are travelling back from Paris. We arrive at Gare Du Nord and Duffy stops in his tracks. He whispers to me “I think that’s Alex Turner.” “F**k off!” I immediately reply. I gaze over at a guy wearing a leather jacket with long brown hair, his face adorned with aviators. We should probably stop staring as it’s getting weird, sexually and aggressively weird. Turns out it is bloody Alex Turner, the man who’s provided the soundtrack to my life! He strolls past and disappears into the Parisian platform crowd. A missed opportunity. We board our train back to London. We look to our left and there’s Alex. Sitting in his seat accompanied by a notepad. He’s probably writing the next Arctic Monkeys hit “Two gawping pricks on a train”. We really need to stop staring. I tell Duffers I’m going in, he stops me. Reminds me that I’m a fully functioning adult and not to create a scene. Christ, he’s right! I feel like I’m 15 years old again, someone get me a Strongbow and whack Dancing Shoes on, kin hell lad! Eventually myself and Con engage, it’s a surreal experience. Alex is polite and returns conversation in a soft friendly manner. The whole situation is just bloody lovely. I awkwardly ask if I can take his portrait, fully aware that it could result in an awkward exchange and destroy this wonderful moment. He smiles and obliges, he’s effortlessly cool, asks for direction and I take a few snaps. We disembark the train, I felt quite emotional and that’s embarrassing to admit. Maybe it was the jet lag, the caffeine and croissant overload? Or maybe it was just the rekindling of my youth. This all might sound trivial, however, for me these portraits are deeply personal serving a reminder that life is a series of fortunate events and when fully appreciated can conjure up some pretty awesome memories.

#post the car era #alex turner #such a touching encounter

[darklyndivinely]

[darklyndivinely]

i am first and foremost a lover. secondarily and mostly for the bit i am also a hater

[darklyndivinely]