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im moving blogs

find me at @mariajenkins if you want!!

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hey, sorry if this is a stupid question but is there a way to get better at singing if you're just.... brutally tone deaf & have no sense of rhythm? like "other people don't like to hear you sing," you can't hear the difference between half the notes in an octave, tone deaf? And get off beat no matter what? ps I hope you find joy in singing again <3

it’s not a stupid question at all <3 so first i’ll say that in the music world, we’re working hard to remove ableist language like ‘tone-deaf’ from our vocabularies and replace it w language like ‘untrained ear’ or even just describing the issue— struggle w matching pitch or rhythm. ok onto the heart of the matter! with some ear training and music training, i fully believe you would be able to improve your ability to match pitch, and become more competent in rhythm! often it stems from a technical issue—misuse of breath or support that can result in tension in throat/larynx/tongue/jaw (all of which affect tone/pitch)—or a pedagogical issue (we’re not all born w the innate ability to match pitch/rhythm! it’s a skill that takes training and practice like all other skills). you could check out this youtube video on matching pitch, or this one on learning rhythm. i hope this helps at all! and thank you sm, sweet anon <3

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photographed by Hannah La Follette Ryan (@subwayhands on Instagram)

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can’t wait to have a house of my own where i can paint & draw on my own walls

#home

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“Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. Love all people, love everything. Seek that rapture and ecstasy.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov (via theperfumemaker)

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Feeling very “pictures that you can smell”

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Kissing a girl in front of the Salvation Army church

like leaning out of the kitchen window to flip off God like burning a fainting couch like an obscenity trial like cutting a string of pearls like punching a Manet like ripping a sticker off a bathroom door like wearing satin flares to a funeral like pretending to forget your ex’s name like growing pansies in the desert like falling in love then paying for it

— Phoebe Stuckes, from Platinum Blonde

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every morning i wake up and i have the same epiphanies all over again. i love it .

#everything is connected #kindness is the most important thing #old worn padded shoulder blazers #potatoes #there is a place for me in the world

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how bizarrely synchronistic. I compose about 99% of my music in Eminor or G major. huh.

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Various Charles Iarrobino artworks

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THE HAND OF COEXISTENCE. Sculpture by Seung-guk Kim, located in one of the most easternmost points of South Korea, Pohang. I love the idea behind it: reach out.

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This is inhuman – yet it’s mine.

— Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘Wires’ Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems (translated by Elaine Feinstein)

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

— William Shakespeare, The Tempest

I am terrified by this dark thing   That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

— Sylvia Plath, ‘Elm’

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Sun and the moon. Huichol beadwork. Mexico.

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The Day After (그후), dir. Hong Sang-soo (2017)

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thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

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Bracelets of Queen Hetepheres I, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2575-2550 BC. From the Tomb of Hetepheres I., Egypt, [960 x 860]