kim jisoo. she/her. cis woman. › spotted at the met steps , nayoung lim , most likely listening to girls like me don't cry by thuy with their airpods pro . the twenty eight year old gained quite a reputation , known to be -uppish yet +cosmopolitan to anyone who knows them . you'll easily spot them when you hear about the sweetened scent of her cherry lip gloss kissed on your skin as she steals your attention , the inability to catch up despite chasing for so long , using pink airpod max headphones to drown the sound of incessant chatter , and never forgetting the smell of her perfume long after she ghosted you , followed by benevolence limited edition by house of sillage . latest nepoupdates article talks about heiress nayoung lim walks away from $3.5m proposal claiming cold feet— will the it girl heartbreaker ever commit ? , but i guess any reputation is good reputation .
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if someone were to ask about the story of the lim family , it would take much more time than what's given . the family's history is rich , delving back to the days of the joseon dynasty and the creation of haekyang group which has led to the family being one of the wealthiest in all of south korea . lim namgi is the second eldest son of the lim family , with movie star quality visuals and the inability to be tied down . in the latter half of the 1980s , namgi and his elder brother were often the talk of the town— who would be lucky enough to nab one of the most eligible bachelors in all of seoul ? both are academically inclined with seoul national university being their stomping ground , and for namgi , his world becomes flipped on its axis when he randomly bumps into kwon hwayoung one afternoon at starfield library .
hwayoung is as studious as she is beautiful , and if someone were to ask if she knew the lim brothers , she'd look at them as if they asked her for the formula to get to saturn . while the other people around her gossiped about the celebrity - like lim brothers , hwayoung had her nose tucked into her music sheets and her headphones were constantly playing the likes of bach or beethoven— she didn't have time for dating . getting into the music program at hanyang university had been hard work as she didn't come from privilege . she spent hours upon hours practicing her cello and studying , knowing that only a scholarship could afford her the education she desired . unlike namgi , hwayoung's parents owned a small but stable banchan restaurant that definitely couldn't afford to pay for a school like hanyang . her hard work , even working at her parents' restaurant despite her busy schedule , eventually paid off and she found herself studying at her dream school .
it's a random saturday morning , a rare day off for hwayoung to do as she pleases , when she quite literally bumps into lim namgi . the two end up exploring the massive library together , and namgi finds hwayoung to be a breath of fresh air . to hwayoung , he's just another boy who she'll never get to know , and will probably never hear from again . they trade numbers but she doesn't expect for him to call , but later on that night she gets a call from namgi asking her out for a date , and the rest is history . hwayoung and namgi become a happy couple within no time , and just two years after that fateful day , the two become engaged during a beautiful trip to paris to celebrate their anniversary . it takes nothing for hwayoung's dream wedding to come to life , even if it has to be put on hold when namgi is called to duty . their ceremony is lavish as is their honeymoon , and upon returning to seoul , the couple settle into their new lives : namgi is the director of development within his family's company and hwayoung is first chair cellist with the seoul philharmonic orchesta .
after six years of wedded bliss , hwayoung and namgi start their family . they welcomed their first daughter nahyun in 1993 , followed by nayoung in 1995 , nara in 2000 , and naeun in 2002 . for all four girls , they were raised in a world where they didn't have to want for anything . the girls were raised in the lap of luxury , with their days consisting of music lessons , dance lessons , and whatever else they loved to do , followed by a lovely sit down dinner with their parents every night . for second eldest daughter nayoung , she'd fallen in love with ballet from the tender age of five and even picked up on the piano . nayoung was a lovely child who grew into a popular teenager , attending one of the best schools in seoul alongside her sisters .
nayoung is as academically inclined as she is popular , landing her with an acceptance to snu much like her father and older sister . she studies design , with a particular interest in fashion . she eventually graduates , and having such a last name opens doors for her within the world of fashion . nayoung inserts herself into the fast paced world of seoul's fashion scene , instantly finding her place within the chaotic world . her instagram is filled with behind the scenes footage from seoul fashion week , and even her own styling work , which eventually lands her the job of stylist for a hotly anticipated girl group . after three years , and a few styling awards later , nayoung finds herself as a splash on the new york city scene when she's invited to her first new york fashion week and even featured within the likes of vogue .
it takes little convincing for then twenty five year old nayoung to make the move to new york , but she's no longer behind the scenes . she becomes a fashion week favorite , invited to sit front row by a number of fashion houses thanks to her impeccable eye for fashion . with her doll - esque features , it's no surprise that nayoung suddenly finds herself on the cover of magazines , with her very first being a cover and spread in vogue korea . over the past three years , nayoung has made her place within new york's social scene , having risen from just another girl in the fashion world to being one of the top fashion insiders and influencers .
nayoung wouldn't be as known as she is without having her name in a few headlines outside of fashion . every so often , nayoung was spotted with a new beau— actors , athletes , models , millionaires— you name it and her name was attached to them . most like to say that her relationships are the reason people know her name , but nayoung lets it all roll off her back . to some she's a not so pleasant word and so others she's just living her best life , not letting herself get too committed when she doesn't want to . most wonder if she's ever really serious with the people she's seen with , but only a few have made it to the status of instagram official .
HEADCANONS.
nayoung , with her status within fashion , was signed as the global ambassador for dior and dior beauty in late 2019 . initially , she had done a few ads for the brand , but was officially signed in october of that year .
she lives in a gorgeous brownstone in manhattan , priced at $4.8m . initially , she lived in a rented condo before she purchased the brownstone in 2022 .
when it comes to her headline , it is true and she won't deny it ! nayoung is often the heartbreaker in most of her relationships , preferring to end the relationship before it gets too far . walking away from the person who proposed to her hurt the most , even if she won't readily admit it .
personality wise , it's easy to get along with nayoung but it's also really easy to get on her bad side ! she is a loyal friend and partner , but break her trust once and it will take a long time for her to forgive you . she's charming and takes nothing for her to spark up a conversation with someone , even if it's her first time meeting them .
despite living in the lap of luxury from literally the moment she was born , nayoung isn't afraid of a little hard work . she likes to get dirty , and has a lot of fun doing things with her hands . nayoung has helped her mom with opening the new york branch of the kwon - lim foundation , which helps provide music and academic scholarships for underprivileged students in the state .
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If Twisted Wonderland gets character songs
I saw talk about how nice it'd be if each character eventually gets a solo that represents themself as a person and I ended up making a thread on it, so I thought I'd put it here as well! All the characters are under the cut since it's gonna get long haha
Heartslabyul
Riddle: Using a music box-like tune to feel almost dreamlike? (because Alice in Wonderland) I definitely want it to showcase his character growth, like how he was able to break out of his isolation and rigidness, which could be expressed through a simple music box melody swelling into something more powerful as the song progresses
Ace: Either something like playful, old-timey Broadway show tunes (a reference to his magic tricks haha) or straight up penis music <3 Ace is youthful yet rational, considerate yet has a mean streak to him as well... I think something that could portray all of these sides of him would be nice
Deuce: I want the song to show how earnest and awkward? he is... Please listen to Seiten no Sinker from A3! I feel like the melody of it fits Deuce so well, though I wouldn't mind a more chaotic song either that captures the emotions Deuce might feel as he gets caught up in the whirlwind of school life! Basically, I want a song that shows our boy is really doing his best!!! A song that makes you think, "I'm rooting for you!"
Trey: He's so straightforward it feels hard to pin him down tbh.... But I think it'd be fun if it was a song about him baking or something,, down to earth in the Trey way :] Lyrics that walk you through how to make the perfect cake, maybe with a verse like "and of course, oyster sauce to taste-- I'm only joking though"
Cater: I either want an upbeat song like Summer Time Love (also A3. listen to A3 music.) or something that shows us the sides of Cater he doesn't reveal often, like a song that covers the way Cater feels about his persona that juxtaposes with his true self. We've seen in stories how he's not actually the super bright and peppy persona he puts out and I wanna see more of that
Savanaclaw
Leona: A song that shows his inner struggles and maybe about why he chooses to be lazy instead of facing his problems head on? It would also be good to show his more ambitious side buried under all of the apathy. I'm thinking of a song with the mood of Just For Myself (also from A3, it's gonna show up a lot more from here on out as well)
Ruggie: A lighthearted song about the plights of Ruggie's life as he does errands for Leona wouldn't be half bad I think, haha. I'd want the song to almost feel like you're running alongside him as he moves through his day!
Jack: You all probably saw this coming but a song like Loner (Juza A3) would fit him so well! Jack is incredibly strong but he never uses that strength for bad purposes. It's also endearing how he's honest, almost to a fault. I think a song that can capture that would be good
Octavinelle
Azul: JAZZ. If it's not jazz I'll be a little disappointed I am not going to lie <3 I want a swinging 1920's vibe song with a flashy blare of brass that feels like you're being ushered into the Mostro Lounge VIP room! Also wouldn't it be neat if the music is super bright but the lyrics are a little concerning? Agreed? Agreed.
Jade: Something that portrays his perfect butler attitude, with a sudden flash of his twisted side that disappears as quickly as it comes. Either that OR a song dedicated to his love for mushrooms, the obvious superior option lmaoooo
Floyd: Penis music. I want the song to swing back and forth between a beautifully constructed melody to what can be called nothing more than glorified piano keysmashes with jumbled and dissonant sounds, much like Floyd's own temperament.
Scarabia
Kalim: LOUD!! BRIGHT!!!! A feeling like you're in the middle of a parade on a brilliantly blue summer day. A song that makes you want to smile and dance would be wonderful I think, it's what Kalim would want!! :]
Jamil: His song would probably feel like someone's standing behind you, almost like a snake slithering. Liberal use of a zither, and soft drumbeats to emulate the soft fall of footsteps. I want Jamil's solo to give you the feeling of anxiety that listening to Saturn from Holst's The Planets suite does
Pomefiore
Vil: An elegant and regal song that combines classic instruments and melodies. It'd be so nice if they incorporated a harp into the music somehow, and maybe choir vocals as well! Maybe also a shift from a major to a minor key within the song to signify the motif of poisonous beauty? Anything for you queen💓💓
Epel: Probably the song with the simplest melody out of the Pomefiore members!! Maybe it would be about carving apples! Epel explaining how to peel the skin and cut the fruit to create beautiful shapes :] It's either this or Epel's hot hit single "Let Me Join Savanaclaw"
Rook: A song about either his devotion to beauty, to hunting, or both! An ample use of French phrases in the lyrics, and it kind of sounds like you're being chased
Ignihyde
Idia: Definitely techno of some kind, maybe incorporating a synthesizer or 8bit? I want it to be about him gaming just like Gamer's High (also from A3, thought you escaped didn't you) where tons of gamer lingo is used!
Ortho: Also a techno type melody but like, cute? Listen to Synchronism from Utapri you'll know what I mean (Ai and Ortho even have the same seiyuu ahhaha) Maybe a song about how he wants the best for Idia ☺️💞
Diasomnia
Malleus: He's skillful at playing stringed instruments so they should make the most of it by incorporating them into the music! (This is another way to say I really like violin and cello) Tbh throw a pipe organ in there too let's go that extra mile <3 It'd be cool if the melody had baroque vibes almost?
Lilia: DEATH METAL. SCREAMO. If your eardrums don't bleed a little bit what's the point baybee!! I want a recreation of whatever he sang during club orientation day come on disney don't be shy
Silver: A bit like Traumerie to Kuuhaku (this is my periodic message to listen to the A3 discography) where it feels like you're between a state of sleep and conscious? A song that's like a lullaby would be fitting for Silver :]
Sebek: Like the equivalent of a trumpet blasting in your ear; if Silver's puts you to sleep this one will jolt you back awake. Something that requires a super strict tempo, like a march, would be fitting for him! The entire song would be about Malleus-sama of course <3
Congrats to everyone who made it to the end of this proud of y'all mwah mwah
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Artist Spotlights!
🎤 Litamaco 🥁 LittleRain 🎷 LunarisTigris
🎺 Lussielle 🎸 mari 🎻 Maxine
Interview below the cut!
Introduce yourself
🎤 Love OCs and Legend of Zelda is my life. I'm primarily a digital artist but I do traditional as well. I'm most active on Instagram and DeviantArt!
https://www.deviantart.com/litamaco/
https://www.instagram.com/capt_litamaco/
🥁 Hi! I'm LittleRain, she/they, i'm a graphic design student mostly into haikyuu, mp100, houseki no kuni and kimetsu no yaiba
I draw both digital and traditional art but most of my fanarts are digital! I'm mostly active on twitter and tumblr!
https://twitter.com/Ptitepluie
https://underwaterrain.tumblr.com/
🎷 My name is Emma and I go by LunarisTigris on the interwebs. I've been drawing for a long time now, it's something I've always kept up as a hobby and I hope to create art for many more years to come. I enjoy both traditional art, especially watercolours, and digital art. I draw fanart of stuff I just enjoy a lot, but also want to focus more on my own characters~
You can find me on instagram, right here: https://www.instagram.com/lunaristigris/
🎸 Hey! I'm Mari, and I do a bit of everything.... I do graphics and retouching right now fro work but I was to be an illustrator and motion effects artist! I'm into video games and nature, and summer and city adventures.
Do you do commissions post? Where can we find the info?
🎤 https://www.deviantart.com/litamaco/jounal/Cheap-Commissions-OPEN-694001119
🥁 https://underwaterrain.tumblr.com/commissioninfo
🎸 DM my insta or twitter!
Do you listen to music (or tv shows/films/anything else) when drawing?
🎤 I listen to YouTube videos. I tend daydream and think of story ideas while I listen to music, putting it on as I'm drawing would just get me distracted.
🥁 I listen to j-pop most of the time, or games and anime OST
🎷 I almost always have something playing as background noise when drawing. Most of the time it's music. It helps me focus and keeps me company when drawing~
🎸 Whatever my roommate is watching or some random playlist... synthwave at the moment!
What’s your favorite music artist/band? If you could ask your favorite band/music artist one question, what would it be?
🎤 If I really had to pick someone I'd say Shiloh Dynasty. I like almost all of their songs, very relaxing to listen to.
""Are you doing well?"" Not sure what happened to them but I hope they're okay.
🥁 Right now my favorite composer is Yuki Kajiura, a rather common choice I guess? But her musics always hit me the right way and can convey both pure epicness and immense nostalgia
(she did puella magi, fate, kara no kyoukai & kny ost among others)
🎷 My favorite band is Bastille. I think I would ask them how they always put together such amazing mash-ups whenever they do one, because they are so well thought out and fitting.
🎸 My faves are The Weeknd and Lana Del Rey. I'd love to ask the Weeknd about his Kissland album, since it seems he really hates that one lol
Do you play an instrument? If not would you like to play one? Which one?
🎤 I've memorized how to play parts on song on the piano (and part of megalovania on the guitar out of spite) but other than that no. I would really like to learn violin!
🥁 I used to play a bit of guqing and guitar but ended up letting it down. They were really fun and satisfying to learn and i would love to get back to it when i'll have time to
🎷 I don't play an instrument but if I would, it would probably be either the piano or cello
🎸 Not really, I'd like to play piano though.
Which song(s) are you going to draw?
🎤 RISE - League of Legends
🥁 I'm drawing Of Monsters and Men - Black Water! It was hard to chose between all OMAM songs
🎷 Saturn by Sleeping at Last
🎸 As You Are by The Weeknd
What do you expect from this zine?
🎤 Lots of good entries. I'm very excited just from looking at everyone's wips!
🥁 Nothing special, I don't often have time and occasions to draw whatever i want from a prompt so this is a good opportunity
🎷 I expect, or well hope, to see many different artists come together and share their favorite music through their own art and styles.
🎸 Just a push to create a cool illustration! it's more fun together.
Anything else you want to add?
🎤 Good luck to everyone else working on their pieces!
🥁 Thanks nini for organizing this zine and i hope you'll like it!
🎷 I hope everyone will have a good time working on their pieces and can't wait to see all the art in the zine!
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My INFP Music Series: Song Thoughts #7
Disclaimer: This is all based on my own preferences and opinion. Not all INFPs would necessarily agree with me.
Do you happen to have a suggestion for me? A song, an album, an artist? Click here to submit a suggestion an I’ll add it to my list of reviews! if the link doesn’t work, copy this URL: https://forms.gle/RXjRdgVSoH4bFxmG8
Saturn - Sleeping at Last
Shoutout to @negamewtwo for this suggestion! This is one of my favorite songs, especially as an INFP. It’s beautiful in so many ways, the melody, the instrumentation, the lyrics. It strangely just resonates with me and the time goes by so quickly when it plays that I usually end up listening to it more than once.
A quick plug for Ryan O’Neal, the person behind Sleeping At Last. He’s currently working on “an ongoing series of music based on the origins of the universe and life within it.” Year One begins before the Earth’s beginnings and gradually zooms into our solar system and, finally, the Earth. Year Two begins with the origins of life and gradually zeroes in on the things that make us uniquely human. The final round of songs of Year Two actually has a song where each is based on the nine personality types from the Enneagram. So if you like this song, check out some of his other work too because it truly takes you on a journey.
Notable Lyrics:
“You taught me the courage of stars before you left.
How light carries on endlessly, even after death.
With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite.
How rare and beautiful it is to even exist.”
This track doesn’t have many lyrics, but the lyrics that are there are quite powerful indeed. In fact, the two snippets that I take out cover all of the lyrics sans repetition. This song comes from Ryan’s work focused on astronomy, and if you didn’t guess, this one is about Saturn. He talked about this song in an interview as well.
“Saturn is the most visually beautiful planet, so I chose what I consider the most visually beautiful instrument—the cello. So cello and piano kind of became the rules for that song. I took a little liberty in some of the themes. They are personal songs, they mean a lot to me, and don’t always specifically correlate to data learned from each of the planets. I wanted them to be human songs that felt very much from the heart, while also pulling in some of the traits and feelings from what I was learning about each of the planets.”
This is one of those songs where you get overwhelmed with emotion even though you may not be able to pinpoint what that emotion is. I’ve listened to this song and have sometimes noticed a small smile on my face by the end and at other times I’ll notice that my eyes have tears in them and I feel a bit choked up. In my opinion, that is a sign of strong and powerful music, when it can cause you to feel strong emotions even without uttering a single word.
The lyrics don’t even kick in until almost two and a half minutes into the song and you don’t even notice their absence but you most definitely feel their impact. The lack of vocals through the first half of the song make the lyrics stand out stronger to me and after the melody has seemingly emptied my mind and had me focus on the song, I really feel what each line is saying.
Every point made in this song really resonates with me as an INFP. It strongly connects to that daydreamy, hopeful, wide-eyed curious child in all of us. It points out that fact that we don’t see us as being tiny aspects of this galaxy as a bad thing but as an inspiring thing, a bright concept. We see the power and the width and the greatness of it all. It’s beautiful in a way and helps us with our perspective. We can see ourselves as both large and small aspects of this universe. Our lives and existence are rare and precious. It just depends on the way that you look at it at the end of the day. It’s a concept that we’re forever reaching for, yet can never quite reach. I feel like that point is expressed well through the lines “...the universe was made just to be seen by my eyes” and “With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite. How rare and beautiful it is to even exist.”
This song has a very strong philosophical feeling about it and some elements remind me of solipsism, which has always been an interest of mine. Solipsism is the idea that your mind exists, but you can’t be sure that anything outside of your mind or any other’s mind is completely unknown and may not exist at all.
Notable Lyrics:
“I couldn’t help but ask
For you to say it all again.
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen.
I’d give anything to hear
You say it one more time,
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes”
I’m going to use this last bit to talk about the music video because it’s beautiful as well. If you haven’t checked it out, you should. I want to just list out so many positive adjectives for this video but I can’t pick what words I should use. The first time that I saw it, I remember just staring at my screen in awe. The time lapses, the scenery, the overall visuals of the entire video are breathtaking and I loved every second of it.
Want to see the rest of the series? Check out the Masterlist post
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Hello and god bless, I have finally finished my November playlist a week and a half into december. Disco, Guns N’ Roses, an entire doom metal album and everything in between. Please enjoy.
Extraball - Yuksek: Aside from the extremely nice electro bass I think what I appreciate most about this song is that the chorus seems like the sort of thing you could sing in a round, or as some kind of children’s clapping game.
Mirror Reaper - Bell Witch: Let me be the first to apologise for putting an 80 minute doom metal album as the second song on this playlist. I’m sorry. It was selfish and it won’t happen again. That said, please listen to this because it is transformative. I’ve listened this a lot this month and it’s really affected my mood I think. Doom metal is one of the only genres that takes itself seriously enough to release an album that’s just one 80 minute track but I really can’t fault them for doing it. This is a piece of music that demands to be listened to in full, and while it does naturally divide into movements like anything else this long would, it would be weaker overall if it were split into individual tracks or listened to individually. A lot of the playing on here, which is very sparse in long sections feels like ritual music of some kind - a feeling that’s compounded by the length when you’re absolutely lost within it. It makes electric bass and drums feel like modern ritual instruments and this album feels like an invocation of the spirit of loss itself.
Sixteen Tons - Merle Travis: For some reason I keep thinking about and listening to different versions of Sixteen Tons. This is Merle Travis, the orginal songwriter, but this is a new recording he did in 1989. Notably I love the very plaintive solo in the middle of this, but I especially love that he changed the lyric at the end to say “I owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie Ford” which feels like an agressive rebuke or a solemn nod but I can’t tell which.
Looking Up - Michael Smith: My girlfriend sent me this song because she heard it on the podcast Good Christian Fun which as I understand it is an exploration of the bizzare world of american evangelical christian media. Anyway this song rocks. It sounds like Todd Terje remixed the theme to some lost 80s sitcom and I really can’t get enough of it.
Wild - Beach House: This is such a beautiful song. I love the tinny drum machine and the live drums that sound programmed constrasting against the huge wall of guitar and synths. I used to listen to this album a lot a few years ago when I worked night shift and it reminds me of standing on top of wine tanks in the cool night air at 2am texting my now girlfriend as she went to bed. Sorry.
Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op.30: 1. Allegro ma non tanto - Sergei Rachmaninoff: I had a friend in school who did his licentiate degree in piano in year 12 and was obsessed with this piece. One day he took me through the whole first movement and showed me how the theme is established and comes back in different forms over and over again throughout and basically taught me how to listen to classical music which was very kind of him because it’s something I’m only really appreciating now.
Verklärte Nacht, Op.4: String Sextett for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and 2 Cellos - Arnold Schoenberg: This is an early Schoenberg piece before he got into that good good atonal serialism, but it does still have moments that presage what was to come. I don’t really have much to say about this other than it’s a very good place to start with Schoenberg because it’s like proof that he was a human man at one point.
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Harry Belafonte: I’ve really been thinking about how work songs like this and like Sixteen Tons become international hits. This one especially, in the 50s, was it because it was a really good song (which it is) that a lot of people related to or was it a sort of exoticism about funny banana song (which to be fair, it also is).
Boogie Wonderland (12" Version) - Earth, Wind And Fire: This is the song you hear playing from the other side of the door when you get to heaven.
Apollo’s Mood - The Olympians: This album is basically a collection of Daptone All-Stars under the name The Olympians just doing their thing and it’s really amazing. I especially love the harpsichord in this, an instrument that doesn’t get nearly enough of a workout in soul music. Also, I don’t really know how to describe it but I really love the way the snare roll that starts it off and comes back a few times sounds - buzzy and busy without rushing anyone.
Saturn - The Olympians: This is the song you use for your montage at the end of a James Bond movie that’s just four minutes of him relaxing and drinking different cocktails by himself that the critics called ‘wholly unneccesary’. In the drums and bongo break he does a little dance and falls over.
November Rain - Guns N’ Roses: As far as overblown classic rock epics go, I really wish November Rain had the cultural place of bad song Bohemian Rhapsody or Stairway To Heaven because underneath the 9 minutes of stings and bullshit it’s actually a very beautiful and sad song written by an idiot.
Sisters Of The Moon - Fleetwood Mac: With the current wytchy cult that Stevie Nicks has around her it’s easy to forget that she wrote songs like Sisters Of The Moon, a song explicitly about a witch converting other women to witchery. I love the big extended phrase of guitar chords in the chorus and I’m very mad about how this song fades out just as it’s absolutely going off.
When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin: Rounding out this unexpected classic rock trio is When The Levee Breaks which I was thinking about because I was thinking about The Big Short. This song sounds so good and there’s been so much written about the famous drum sound and the production but what I only learned this month is that it was apparently recorded at a faster tempo and then slowed down afterwards, which explains a lot about a lot of the sounds in here.
Bad Liar - Selena Gomez: This is maybe the pop song of the year honestly. It’s so good in every single aspect, especially the when she says’ oh baby lets make reality, actuality, reality’ which is a very weird lyric. So is 'you’re taking up a fraction of my mind, every time I watch you serpentine(?)’. Great stuff all around.
Hello Miss Lonesome - Marlon Williams: I saw Marlon Williams a year or so ago and it was one of the best gigs I’ve been to because things just kept going wrong. Broken strings and misunderstandings and all that sort of thing, and the highlight for me was in this song the drummer got overconfident and started pushing the tempo near the end and eventually tripped over himself so badly they had to stop and start again.
The Voice Of Q - Q: Here’s how you can tell a song is good: you can only find it on Spotify on a compilation album called 'Cocaine Boogie: 24 Kilos Of Underground 80s Dance’. This song seems like a classic case of 'somebody bought a vocoder’ and it’s very very good, another fantastic entry in the canon of interplanetary disco. I also love the children sadly pleading with Q to come back at the end, because the song hasn’t really given you any understanding of who or what Q is other than a being with a voice who is from space.
Take A Trip - Rev. Utah Smith: If I were, hypothetically, to start, for example, a UFO cult, I would definitely have my congregation sing this song. I love it so much. Outside of the fun premise it does what good gospel music should do and completely uplifts my spirit by promising a better life after this one, and if I get to go there by rocket ship, well that’s all the better.
Normal Person - Arcade Fire: I love the little 'do you like rock and roll music? 'cause I don’t know if I do.’ he sings at the start because it sounds like they’re into their 13th hour of recording or something. I love the lead guitar that sounds like it’s severely undernourished but trying its best and I love how strangely heavy the bass and rhythm guitar is compared to a lot of their other songs. A good song to sing along to while you’re driving.
Top Of The World - Kimbra: I don’t know exactly how or why but Kimbra made a Kanye song. Playing the dual roles of Kanye and Featured Artist she does a great job and once again defies whatever I thought she was going to do next. I can’t wait for the album, I hope it has even more Raps.
Eric’s Trip - Sonic Youth: I’ve never gotten much into Sonic Youth because they seemed way too New York Cool for me, so imagine my heartbreak when I found out the lyrics to my favourite song of theirs are wholesale lifted from an Andy Warhol film. I still have a lot of love for 'my head’s on straight, my girlfriend’s beautiful, it looks pretty good to me’ though.
I Hope I Sleep Tonight - DJ Seinfeld: God I’d be embarrassed if I blew up on soundcloud with the name 'DJ Seinfeld’ and then had to keep it when I put my album out. This album varies pretty wildly in quality but I really love this track, the synth melody that just careens around wildly while the rest of the song happens nearby is what does it for me I think.
Problem With The Sun - Nicolas Jaar: “In an interview with Self-Titled Magazine, Jaar said “I was watching a documentary about bugs. It said that if they looked at the sun, they’d die. I thought ‘Oh, that’s funny; that’s cute’ and I wrote a track about it (…). If you find something really special in a tiny story about bugs, it could have a much bigger meaning than that. I like the idea of turning life into this miniature thing”.” He’s used this particular voice modulation on a couple of song and it really cracks me up because it so thick and textured and just plain silly but somehow it suits the song perfectly.
Long Strong Diamond - Baggsmen: This is a song I remember seeing on Rage late at night years and years ago. The guy was dressed up as a werewolf and kidnapping some girl but he gets so distracted by his song about being a werewolf that she ends up escaping. Extremely mad to find out that the guy in this song from years ago that I love is none other than personal enemy of mine Jake Stone from Bluejuice.
XO/The Host/Initiation - The Weeknd: Trilogy could well be the best album of the decade. Remember when The Weeknd was this mysterious anonymous guy who was firmly a character and not an actual guy who seems to actually believe what he’s singing? I love Trilogy because the progression across the three discs from like 'cool indifferent party guy’ in House Of Balloons to extremely deranged cult leader in Echoes Of Silence is very satisfying. Initiation especially is great because it’s like a cool fun song about a party mixed with some extremely dark shit about the clocks not working so you can’t tell the time and the blinds not working so you can’t see outside in a scary pitch shifting voice. “And all I wanna do is leave 'cause I’ve been zoning for a week and I ain’t left this little room, trying to concentrate to breathe” but you absolutely MUST meet my boys.
This Guy’s In Love With You - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass: Anyway here’s a change of pace. A very peaceful song about just fucking dying if she won’t be your girl. I love how dramatic this song gets before completely stopping and starting again into a very relaxed trumpet line.
Jasmine (demo) - Jai Paul: I’m obsessed with the cult that develops around guys like Jai Paul and Jay Electronica, who put out two songs that are so good that it drives people insane when they don’t put out any more. There’s apparently a bunch of stuff happening with Jai Paul currently that I haven’t been keeping track of but The Fader had a really good article earlier this year about how the Jai Paul leaks and how insane it made everyone. Aside from all that, the song is pure magic - just listen to it and you can understand why everyone was obsessed as they were.
Freaking Out The Neighbourhood - Mac Demarco: I remember I saw an interview with Mac Demarco talking about this song and he described the riff as just some dumb little thing he made up which is shocking to me because I am totally obsessed with how good it sounds. It’s perfect!
Bob - “Weird Al” Yankovic: Yes baby it’s Weird Al’s all-palindrome Bob Dylan parody! I was telling my girfriend about how this is actually really good songwriting because even though it’s essentially gibberish it has enough good imagery and fun sounds that it works anyway and really how different is 'may a moody baby doom a yam’ to 'transient jet lagged ecto-mimed bison’ from the Mars Volta which also appears on this list? Anyway she hated it, and rightly so.
I Have Good News To Bring - Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Live from the basement church of my UFO cult, a beautiful version of Take A Trip that sounds like it was recorded on the organ of an empty baseball stadium at night.
Julia - Jungle: I have been desperately waiting for three years now for another Jungle album and they finally posted about new songs the other day and I got very very excited. This is an amazing song, every sound in it is so perfectly placed and the vocals are very beautiful and have such a rich bass for such a high tenor. I love the way the drums subtly get very busy in the last few choruses, I could listen to this song for hours.
Ray Gun (feat. DOOM) -BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah: I love that this song is maybe 20bmp faster than Ghostface or Doom are expecting. Doom especially sounds far more excited than he has in years and they both do really well with it. Also, I was certain the melody it breaks into in the last third was some Lalo Schifrin bit I’ve heard before but I can’t seem to find any info corroborating that. If it’s familiar to you or you know where it’s from, please reply to this post because it’s been driving me crazy.
Confessions Pt. III - BadBadNotGood & Colin Stetson: Any song where Colin Stetson has to play with others is funny to me. He’s such a self contained ball of power that him joining a traditional group like it just wouldn’t work. Sure, this song does sort of sound like him doing his own thing for seven minutes while the band sort of reacts to him but it is absolutely fantastic anyway.
Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom) - N.E.R.D: Remember when Pharrell was crazy? This song is total chaos. The pitched down sample in the hook, the two note bassline, the sax that just hoots once a bar. And I absolutely love the contrast of the beautiful bridge, especially the 'achooo’ backing vocals.
Parties - Shlohmo: Bad Vibes was such a moment. It is such a beautiful album, and a very easy album to fall asleep to and then wake up 20 minutes later terrified and choked by your headphones because Trapped In A Burning House, the song that sounds exactly like its title and nothing like the rest of the album, came on. I have such a strong emotional reaction I really can’t explain to the cutoff samples of people laughing near the end of this song.
Bering/Human Till Born -Talkdemonic: I have no idea how I came across this album but I’ve been listening to it constantly for ten years now and I still find new things to appreciate in it. The drums especially in Human Till Born are a source of obsession for me.
Don Caballero 3 - Don Caballero: For a long time I never 'got’ Don Caballero or Hella or any of these supposedly legendary math bands, despite loving so many bands obvously influenced by them. But then one day this album, and this song especially just clicked for me. It also happened to coincide with one of the most surreal weeks of my life when I was on a cruise ship and all I listened to was this and a field recording album that seems to have completely deleted itself from my computer since then. The best advice I’ve heard for listening to this is, and bands like it is that it’s backward. The drums are the lead instrument and everything else works around that, if that helps. This song has a twisted sort of morose quality that’s really hard to pin down. Some days it is absolutely heartbreaking, which sounds silly but it’s true.
B.Y.O.B. - System Of A Down: There’s a few reasons I was thinking of this song. First and most importantly it’s because of that dog vine but the other reason is I was thinking about how there hasn’t been a good anti-trump song yet outside of YG’s FDT, and that came out before the election. This and American Idiot came out in 2004/5, and I suppose it’s only been a year since the election so we’ve got a few years yet until the real hits come out I guess. Or I suppose he’d have to actually properly declare war, which, you know.
4D/MTI - Koreless: These songs are so intertwined in my head I feel like you can’t have one without this other. 4D is such a simple, beautiful piece of music. The synth that sounds like glass and the chopped vocals getting more and more contorted as the song goes on contrasted with the propulsion of the drums is so great. Both of these songs have a meticulousness and restraint to their sound, every single piece is perfectly where it should be and nothing else is allowed. Even MTI using so much white noise feels incredibly controlled and when it totally drops out it feels like coming up from underwater.
New Lands - Justice: Remember when Justice took 4 years to write a follow up to their album that lit the world on fire and instead of doing the same thing again they made a classic rock album? Everyone was so mad. Luckily this song is incredible and everyone was wrong once more.
You Discovered The Secret And Juiced It For All Its Majesty - Venetian Snares: This is from an EP called Cubist Reggae which I think a lot about in concept alone. This is probably the song that illustrates the idea worst but I love it a lot. My incredibly unpopular opinion is that Venetian Snares is miles better of Aphex Twin and whoever but everyone’s written him off as the Rossz Csillag guy so he doesn’t get no respect. I love how detailed his music is, how every one of the million sounds seems to be perfectly placed. I think he’s in a similar position to Autechre where he’s been making and listening to only his own music for so long now that he’s forgotten how normal music sounds, which is good.
Blues Run The Game - Jackson C. Frank: I made a playlist a couple of years ago of all the songs I sing to myself when I’m just walking around or whatever and it turned out about 6/10 had 'blues’ or 'hard times’ in the title, which is tough but it’s ok, and this was one of them. If you want to read a wiki article that’ll make you cry, read Jackson C. Frank’s, but mostly you should just listen to this, his only album.
Thermal Treasure - Polvo: I played this song for my girlfriend and during the intro she said 'you have such a wide variety of tense, off kilter music seeminly designed just to put people on edge’. I’m a huge fan of this very defensive sentence in Polvo’s wiki article 'Their sound was so unpredictable and angular that the band’s guitarists were often accused of failing to play with correctly tuned guitars’.
FML - Kanye West: This is such a strangely affecting song and it’s hard to be sympathetic to Kanye as a narrator sometimes (especially when he insists on doubling down on dogshit lines like “'I'mma have the last laugh indian cause I’m from the tribe called chekaho’”) but against all odds you can identify and relate to his struggle to hold onto the woman he loves and not be undone by his own worst instincts. Musically this is the best The Weeknd has ever sounded and I already love him a lot, and the way the drums lead into the sample at the end is just perfect.
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) - The Mars Volta: This is the album I’ve probably listened to the most in my life. As a teenager I would listen to this album every night for easily a year and somehow there’s still something new to hear in it. It’s almost hard to listen to it now because I have so much Teenage Feeling attached to it but it’s still an incredible piece of work. Jon Theodore deserves a statue for his drumming on this album, and this song especially, in my humble opinion.
Life’s A Beach! - Studio: God I love Studio. I think if you tried to describe them on paper you could never make it sound like good music. “It’s sort of, balearic , reggae, guitar-led dance music and the songs go for about 15 minutes most of the time.” But it is good music! I absolutely promise it’s incredible music!
The Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix) - DJ Shadow: I love this remix because it feels like theseus’ ship as demonstrated via remix. How many parts can you swap out for similar but not identical parts before it’s a completely different song. The drums are almost the same beat, but a totally different sample.The Jackson 5 horns in the original that signal the transition to the second half are still here with the same function, but it’s an entirely different horn sample, and an entirely different second half save for 'the party’s already started, and it’s about to end’.
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I wrote part of this twice because my laptop shut down, which was fun, but it’s here now. I’ve been kind of unsure about some stuff plot-wise/about some other things in the legacy and, as much as I want to get into posting regularly, I’m thinking about missing a week/two weeks/sth like that to figure out some of it? Anyway, enjoy the chapter.
*alarm beeps*
Saturn: Don’t even, okay? You'd sleep on top of the covers too if you were this tired.
Verda: Morning, Mum.
Saturn: Are you okay? You looked washed out. And your forehead’s hot.
Verda: Thanks!
Saturn: Come on, V, be serious. Should you really be going to school?
Verda: I am - I’ve been to school with worse.
Saturn: Maybe, but I don’t feel right letting you go. Are you seriously turning down a day off school? Why?
Verda: I’m supposed to be having lunch with Anya today! I can’t miss that!
Saturn: Come on, just this once. For me. You can see her another time, when you’re better.
Verda: Fine. But I get pizza for dinner.
Saturn: You drive a hard bargain.
Verda: Want me to do some animal cards with you?
Cielle: But...
Cielle: What about school?
Verda: You mean for me? I’m sick, you don’t go to school when you’re sick.
Cielle: No school?
Verda: Nope.
Cielle: Huh...
Verda: Err, Cielle, maybe you shouldn’t-
Cielle: I’m climbing.
Verda: Okay... You’re climbing.
Saturn: I swear to god, this sink waited until T and Mum were too busy with work to break down.
It’s an inanimate object, Saturn.
Saturn: Oh, it can hear me.
Saturn: Ugh. I could use a back rub. Or a new spine.
Saturn: Hmm...
Gia: Apparently, I’m the editing equivalent of a siren.
Wait, what?
Gia: It’s just hate mail, probably the most imaginative I’ve gotten yet.
Gia: I don’t get why people don’t just tell me they don’t like the way I edited their footage. It’s not like we’re ten and I’m gonna turn the whole school against them if they don’t like my art.
Gia: You won’t send me hate mail, will you, Bear? You know, I picked this one out. Saturn thought it’d creep the kids out to have a giant blue bear staring at them. We outvoted her, two to one.
Cielle: Can you read me a story?
Saturn: Which one?
Cielle: I want a new story - Mama says you’re good at them.
Saturn: I... Okay. Once upon a time, there was a big ogre named Shrek.
Cielle: Uh-uh, that’s scary.
Saturn: Okay, how about a unicorn?
Cielle: Don’t be silly, unicorns aren’t real.
Anya: Do you spend all your free time playing piano?
Verda: Anya? What’re you-
Anya: Your mum called me and I still had half a chocolate bar to share with you from lunch, so...
Verda: Oh.
Anya: Are you feeling up to it? Because, if not, I can go.
Verda: No! No, sit down.
Verda: Did my mum really call you?
Anya: I don’t know who you think I am, but I don’t just go around visiting people late at night.
Verda: I’m not exactly a good host right now.
Anya: You can play piano, right? Then teach me.
Verda: Well, first you have to find middle C. Give me your hand?
Anya: Be careful with it, I have cello practice tomorrow.
Gia: *coughs*
Saturn: Oh, hey. Don’t mind me, I’m just wishing I paid attention in Maths class.
Gia: Why don’t you let me take them? I’ll do the books, you get on with everything else.
Saturn: Mum, you’re not any better than I am.
Gia: Then I’ll ask Lucy. The point is you don’t have to do it.
Saturn: Go ahead. If the house gets repossessed, it’s on you.
Saturn: *sighs*
Saturn: I miss you.
[Thalia: Saturn?
*voice speaks in the background*
Thalia: Shut it, Quinn, I’m trying to talk to my wife. Go back to counting sheep.]
Saturn: Did I wake you up?
[Thalia: Not really. We’re working late on a case, I was just taking a nap on the break room sofa. But forget that, you missed me?]
Saturn: I missed your hands.
[Thalia: You what?]
Saturn: I was cleaning the bathroom this afternoon and my back hurt. I missed your hands. I mean, I missed the rest of you as well.
[Thalia: You can’t tell right now, but I’m smiling. Maybe, after this case is over, we could reunite them. My hands, your back.]
Saturn: I’d like that.
Thanks for reading!
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Astrophysicists convert moons and rings of Saturn into music
After centuries of looking with awe and wonder at the beauty of Saturn and its rings, we can now listen to them, thanks to the efforts of astrophysicists at the University of Toronto.
“To celebrate the Grand Finale of NASA’s Cassini mission next month, we converted Saturn’s moons and rings into two pieces of music,” says astrophysicist Matt Russo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) in the Faculty of Arts & Science at U of T.
The conversion to music is made possible by orbital resonances, which occur when two objects execute different numbers of complete orbits in the same time, so that they keep returning to their initial configuration. The rhythmic gravitational tugs between them keep them locked in a tight repeating pattern which can also be converted directly into musical harmony.
The Cassini spacecraft has been collecting data while orbiting Saturn since its arrival in 2004 and is now in the throes of a final death spiral. It will plunge into the planet itself on September 15 to avoid contaminating any of its moons.
Russo was joined by astrophysicist Dan Tamayo, a postdoctoral researcher at CITA and the Centre for Planetary Sciences at U of T Scarborough, and together they were able to play music with an instrument measuring over a million kilometers long. The musical notes and rhythms both come from the orbital motion of Saturn’s moons along with the orbits of the trillions of small particles that make up the ring system.
“Saturn’s magnificent rings act like a sounding board that launches waves at locations that harmonize with the planet’s many moons, and some pairs of moons are themselves locked in resonances,” says Tamayo.
Music of the moons and rings
image abobe: The orbital periods, scaled frequencies, and musical notes of Saturn’s major moons. The frequencies have been increased by 27 octaves from their true values so they can be heard by human ears. Image: SYSTEM Sounds/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Elisabetta Bonora/Marco Faccin.
For the first piece which follows Cassini’s final plunge, the researchers increased the natural orbital frequencies of Saturn’s six large inner moons by 27 octaves to arrive at musical notes. “What you hear are the actual frequencies of the moons, shifted into the human hearing range” says Russo. The team then used a state of the art numerical simulation of the moon system developed by Tamayo to play the resulting notes every time a moon completes an orbit.
The moon system has two orbital resonances which give rhythmic and harmonic structure to the otherwise unsteady lullaby-style melody. The first and third moons Mimas and Tethys are locked in a 2:1 resonance so that Mimas orbits twice for every orbit of Tethys. The same relationship links the orbits of the second and fourth moons Enceledus and Dione, and the combination of the two simple rhythms creates interesting musical patterns as they fall in and out of synchronicity.
Listen to SATURN Sounds Part 1: Moons And Rings Translated Into Music
“Since doubling the frequency of a note produces the same note an octave higher, the four inner moons produce only two different notes close to a perfect fifth apart,” says Russo, who is also a graduate of U of T’s Jazz performance program. “The fifth moon Rhea completes a major chord that is disturbed by the ominous entrance of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.”
Russo and Tamayo are joined in the project by Toronto musician, and Matt’s long-time bandmate, Andrew Santaguida. “Dan understands orbital resonances as deeply as anyone and Andrew is a music production wizard. My job is to connect these two worlds.”
Titan actually gives the Cassini probe the final push which sends it hurtling towards its death in the heart of Saturn. The music follows Cassini’s final flight over the ring system by converting the constantly increasing orbital frequencies of the rings into a dramatic rising pitch; the volume of the tone increases and decreases along with the observed bright and dark bands of the rings. The death of Cassini as it crashes into Saturn is heard as a final crash of a final piano chord, which was inspired by The Beatles’ A Day in the Life, in which a rich major chord follows a similarly tense crescendo.
Image above: A wood carving of Saturn’s main ring system designed for the visually impaired. They will be able to feel many complex structures within the rings while also listening to their audio form. Photo courtesy of SYSTEM Sounds.
In addition to the soundtrack, Russo has had a large wood carving made of Saturn’s rings so people can follow along with their fingertips while listening. The carving will be part of a tactile-audio astronomy exhibit at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind’s Night Steps fundraising event for the visually impaired in Toronto on September 15, the same day the Cassini mission is scheduled to end.
Resonances of Janus translated into music
image above: The orbital periods of the six 1st order resonances of Janus that affect the ring system. The 1:1 resonance is Janus’ co-orbital moon Epimetheus. The corresponding frequencies of these resonances were scaled up by 23 octaves, producing a musical scale. Image: SYSTEM Sounds/NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
The second piece demonstrates the scales played by Janus and Epimetheus, two small irregular moons that share an orbit just outside Saturn’s main ring system. Together they are an example of 1:1 resonance, the only one in the solar system. The pair orbit at slightly different distances from Saturn but with a difference that is so negligible they swap places every four years. The composition simulates the final few months of Cassini’s mission, while Janus is inching closer to Epimetheus before stealing its place in 2018. Together, the two moons play a unison drone but with a constantly shifting rhythm that repeats every eight years.Russo played a C# note on his guitar once for every orbit while a cello sustains a note for each resonance within the rings.“Each ring is like a circular string, being continuously bowed by Janus and Epimetheus as they chase each other around their shared orbit,” says Russo. Cassini recently captured an image of one of the ripples this creates within the rings. To turn this into music, Russo and Santaguida used the brightness variations in this image to control the intensity of the cello.
Listen to SATURN Sounds Part 2: Resonances Of Janus Translated Into Music
“Saturn’s dancing moons now have a soundtrack,” says Russo.
Russo, Tamayo and Santaguida are the same group who converted the recently discovered TRAPPIST-1 planetary system into music a few months ago. They’ve dubbed their astro-sonic side-project SYSTEM Sounds and hope to continue exploring the universe for other evidence of naturally occurring harmonic resonance.
Top image: The creators behind SYSTEM Sounds. L-R: musician Andrew Santaguida, astrophysicist-musician Matt Russo and astrophysicist Dan Tamayo. Photo courtesy of SYSTEM Sounds
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Nebula, Saturn, Meteor!
Nebula-(Im don't use itunes so I'm going to go off my saved spotify music! 1)Cello suite 6 VI Gavotte 2- Bach 2) Take a break-Interlude- !lmind from the Hamilton mix Tape 3) Cowering mess- Brave Combo 4) All American Prophet from the book of Mormon 5)Sonata for Alto saxophone and piano by Bernhard Heiden Movement 1(I played this for my capstone recital, it's niffty)Saturn- what do I think about before I fall asleep?Usually either "what the hell is that cat getting into" or figuring out which walked on meMeteor-do you have a favorite historical figure?Well I'd have to say no, but Josquin Des Perez is a favorite since he composed a song about a cricket (El grillo if you're interested) plus lots of other beautiful works!
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I've been tagged by @pastel-myth (again lol ty xD) --------------- nickname: ....pancake --------------- name: Leontien (pronounce as Lay-on-teen) --------------- gender: umm something like demigenderfluid fluctuating between usually demifemale, quite often demiagender and rarely (but still sometimes) demimale -------------- star sign: uuh pisces sun and aquarius moon --------------- height: 1.72 m aka 5'7" --------------- time: right now? 17:14 aka 5:14 pm Central European Summertime (rn it's 18:52 aka 6:52 pm already tag posts take some time xD) --------------- birthday: 25th of February --------------- favourite band: lots... I've been loving The Lumineer's album Cleopatra lately soo The Lumineers? Oh and definitely The Oh Hellos and Coldplay ---------------- favorite solo artist: oh god... uuh Novo Amor, Aurora, and Iron & Wine oh! and Ludovico Einaudi --------------- song stuck in my head: Bridges by Kensington ---------------- last movie: The Lego Batman Movie ------------------ last show: I'm currently rewatching bbc Merlin (the 2008 one) ----------------- when did I make my blog: December 2015 ----------------- what do I post: uh witchcraft, ace and aro stuff, jokes, classical stuff, I reblog kinda sj stuff...those kinda posts ---------------- last thing I googled: (this needs context) I was watching the Perseids last night in my garden and dragged my brother with me and my bro was wondering what "that one bright star over there" was called and I said, "it better not be Vega". so I looked it up on the star chart thingy (without names) and googled "star alpha Lyra" and lo and behold it's froxing Vega (that star haunts me I swear it wasn't enough already that every physics question about astrophysics is about you huh star?? jk ily Vega) ---------------- do you have other blogs: yeah, there's one blog that hasn't been active in a year or so and I've got another pjo blog which is inactive as well, resulting in everything being posted on my main MUAHAHAHA --------------- do you get asks: yup sometimes, but usually I'm the one asking someone else xD --------------- why did you choose this blog name: well there's this site I love called stuffdutchpeoplelike dot com and it said there were 1.2 bikes for every citizen in the Netherlands, and tumblr doesn't like commas or dots in urls sooo 10 and 12 it is! --------------- number of blogs you're following: 103 (you're 102 btw @pastel-myth) --------------- favourite colour: the yellowish-green color of sunshine shining through beech leaves during spring and summer --------------- lucky number: uhh 2? --------------- instruments: I play the piano, I like singing and I'm learning to play the guitar and want to play the cello sometime xD --------------- how many blankets do you sleep with: usually 1 in summer and my duvet (in one of those duvet blankets) in winter but last night I was really could and I just can't find my duvet anywhere so I slept with three blankets ---------------- dream job: I'd love to be a university teacher, because teaching and research combined? sign me up! (quantumbiology sounds nice because I like biology and quantum physics alike soooo) ---------------- dream trip: hmm as a small trip I'd like to go to the St Pietersberg (St Pete's mountain) in Maastricht with my telescope sometime, and I'd like to visit Rome again or go on an archaeological sites trip through Greece ----------------- favorite food: ???? why choose when you can combine EVERYTHING?? (no jk it's probably sushi I love sushi but I also really love Italian) ---------------- favorite songs: hmm... I've been loving Saturn by Sleeping At Last, Black Water Lilies by Aurora and The Trapeze Swinger (Acoustic) by Iron & Wine resides in a special place in my heart. oh and the Danse Macabre (Op. 40) by Camille Saint-Saëns is my alltime favorite classical piece ----------------- I'm tagging @itswrittenintheshinyorbthings again (tikkie jij bent het :P) ----------------- (btw the --- is just in case tumblr mobile Fs up again)
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All the space questions >:)
dude okay you better be ready for a trip this is gonna be looooong
Planets: Life
Mercury: What’s your full name?
Maegan!! and yes, it really is spelled that way idk ask my parents
Venus: What’s your first language?
English!
Earth: Where’s your home?
also Earth! but specifically Illinois, America’s least-interesting state.
Mars: What’s your sexuality?
eeeergh gay-ish? kinda bi? idk It’s Complicated
Jupiter: Do you have any siblings?
just one! my big bro
Saturn: Any pets?
nope :(
Uranus: What’s your hobby?
what isn’t my hobby lol. I write, I sew, I knit, I crochet, I cook, I garden, I read, I draw, I paint, I own more video games than any person rightfully should, I have an unhealthy obsession with interior decorating–basically if you name it and it doesn’t involve a lot of hand-eye coordination or depth perception, I probably have tried it at least.
Neptune: When’s your birthday?
April 1st. yes really.
Pluto: What time is it right now where you are?
uhhhh… 6:49 PM.
Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study?
as in, college? technically my major is undecided, but being totally honest: I really wanna study acting.
Stars: Experiences
Sun: Have you ever had alcohol?
yes!! I’ve never been drunk tho
Sirius: Have you ever failed a class?
um…. yes…..
Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster?
twice, when I was little. the first time was really fun! the second was… less so :p
Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country?
nope!
Arcturus: Have you cried out of something other than sadness?
all the time. it’s kinda embarrassing lol
Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about?
oh gosh. lots of stuff. I can never forget my grandmother’s old house, or the songs I listened to as a kid, or my favorite movies, or my favorite foods. I have a lot of memories I guess!
Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about?
my girlfriend
Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone?
nope!
Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret?
not that I can remember? not anything really huge or important, anyway.
Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend?
yeah. a lot of them, honestly.
Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t?
ugh. um, I wish I didn’t screw up so many friendships in such dumb ways, I guess.
Constellations: Favourites
Centaurus: Favourite holiday?
uh, it’s probably a tie between Christmas and Halloween. really though I’m always up for an excuse to decorate stuff and have fun.
Orion: Favourite month?
I’m a pretty big fan of March and October
Cassiopeia: Favourite book?
I have lots of favorites. one of them is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Delphinus: Favourite study?
I’m kinda obsessed with history. like, I’d love to be a historian if I didn’t have to do so much schooling to do it.
Hercules: Favourite instrument?
I love all sorts of music, but I’m very fond of violins, cellos, and woodwinds. I also love the ukulele, which I can play!
Gemini: Favourite song?
I have a lot of these too, but one of them is Home by Gabrielle Aplin
Pegasus: Favourite place to be?
I love libraries and art museums. I love the library of my parents’ house, where I’m typing this now. I love little small soft spaces that I can curl up in. I like to make little caves out of blankets in the winter time that I can hide in.
Libra: Favourite colour?
purple and gray.
Phoenix: Favourite thing to wear?
probably my big green sweater. it’s so soft and long and perfect for snuggling!
Aries: Favourite movie?
right now I’m gonna say The Iron Giant, but again, I love a lot of movies.
Cygnus: Favourite weather?
soft cloudy breezy days with a hint of rain. loud pounding thunderstorms in the morning. sunny spring days with warm afternoons and crisp winds.
Hydra: Favourite sound?
windchimes and bells, especially small, cheerful ones. they sound like magic to me.
Galaxies: Love/Friends
Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend?
if we’re talking friends that I still regularly keep in contact with, then I’d say probably my best pal Shana. I’ve known her for… five years? six? wow it’s been a while.
Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social?
yes! mostly! I’m very social but I’m a big fickle about who I spend time with.
Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight?
yes and no. I don’t believe you can be in love with someone without spending the time to get to know them first, but I do believe that there are people who you just sort of click with immediately, and all that complicated getting-to-know-you stuff feels so much easier with them than with other people. there are people who are fascinating to watch and to listen to, people who catch your eye the moment you see them. I wouldn’t call it love exactly, but it’s something.
Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss?
um. no comment lol.
Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills?
oh geez. I’m so bad at flirting. like… so bad. the worst. mostly I just aggressively compliment people and stare at them and hope they don’t hate me?
Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much?
uh, not really. usually it’s more that people automatically leave me when they change, not that I don’t want them around anymore.
Pinwheel Galaxy: Would you date the last person you talked to?
I AM dating the last person I talked to lol. unless you count telling my bro that I didn’t care if he used the TV, in which case, ew no.
Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now?
yeah….
Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer?
if I have, they’ve been very stealthy about it!
Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someone out of pity?
no? I mean, if someone is lonely/doesn’t seem to have a lot of friends I might make an extra effort to talk to them, but I wouldn’t ever spend time with someone JUST out of pity, that’d be insulting and unpleasant for both of us
Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship?
why would I?
Whirlpool Galaxy: Have you ever cried over a breakup?
if friend-breakups count, then yes.
Other stuff: Wishes
Comet: What’s your big dream?
to get my own books published someday. to move out of my parents’ house. to get a job I love and don’t hate.
Asteroid: What does your dream life look like?
I live in a small and extremely comfortable house with my wife. we have a few kids and a bunch of dogs and maybe a cat or two. I have plenty of time to spend on all my hobbies and a garden out front that I’m always struggling to remember to water. my job is creative and exciting and not horribly stressful. also we live on a farm and I get to pet goats all the time because this is a dream so I get to have whatever I want. I bake bread every single day and I never have to vacuum the carpets.
Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t?
I wish I was better at articulating my thoughts in general. there’s a lot of little day-to-day thoughts I have that I’d love to tell people, but I’ve never been good at telling people what I’m thinking or why.
Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what would it be?
only one thing? hmm… I’m not sure there’s really anything I’d change. everything that’s happened to me is part of me now, and if I changed it… I’m not sure I’d recognize myself.
Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be?
I’d make the books I loved as a kid stop being out of print.
Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years?
I guess I hope I’ll make a little more progress towards my dream life? finally graduate college probably and make a few more friends, maybe finish a book or two.
Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die?
I want to travel the world. all over Europe and Asia and just… everywhere I can.
Quasar: If you could spend the rest of your life with only one person, who would it be?
oh gosh that’s way too hard of a question! I love all the people I love too much to decide. plus, with only one person we’d definitely get sick of each other after a while.
Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t
that all of the political bullshit currently ruining my country and my mental health would shut up and go away immediately
Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see?
like, the last thing I want to see before I die? or like, the last thing I want to see as in the thing I least want to see ever? as for the former, I don’t know, and as for the latter, idk but I feel like all the above political bullshit comes pretty close
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INTERVIEW: HARRY AND THE CHICKS
Tell us about yourself. How would you describe your style? How did you get started?
I’m Harry and The Chicks, a cosmic pop artist from East London. I idolised artists like Avril Lavigne as a young child and dreamt of having my own music and merchandise plastered across the bedroom wall. I’ve been singing since I was 3, playing instruments since I was 9 and started songwriting aged 12. I was taught guitar and theory for ten years at a local guitar school called Fretboard Warriors.
Are you self-produced? How have you found getting collaborators (e.g. photographers, promoters, sound engineers)
I’ve had quite the journey finding the right producers for my music. I make demos but I go to a producer to get the sound I desire. The new music on its way is miles ahead of my debut releases ‘Accessory’ and ‘Time’; I feel I’m really finding my sound now as an artist. I met some of my producers through instagram, and one is in the function band I am a part of / Harry and The Chicks, @thediscoveryband. Craig Heptinstall, who plays drums in the band, and I have written one of the new singles together and are planning to produce more whilst on lockdown. It’s the first time I’ve had a successful co-write and I believe one of the strongest songs I’ve written to date.
I met my band members through the Undiscovered Live Music Contest in Essex. I won the contest in 2018 as Best Solo Act, and in 2019 I played guest sets on all the heats. I met my band members when I noticed my friend’s brother in the crowd. I came over to say hello and it turned out 50% of the band on stage at the time went to my sixth form school, just three years below me. It also turned out on the same night the bassist, Mason, was my step cousin once removed as his mum exclaimed to my mum that she was her niece! Crazy stuff! Dante, the guitarist, asked me to sing in their function band and it went from there. Undiscovered has been the staple of my career so far.
I was invited to a photography meet-up in 2018 by my friend Anna Swords, and I met so many talented photographers. I’ve been shooting recently with Kashfi @kkh__photography, who takes the most beautiful shots around London and Jasmine @shootmejaz in her studio for my future single artwork! Unfortunately due to the Covid-19 outbreak this has been postponed but I am excited to reveal everything when we finally get to do it! I also made friends with a brilliant illustrator/ designer Joe Husk on Instagram, their artwork is so vibrant it pops! Joe is going to do the illustrations for my single artworks! Joe lives in the USA - I don’t know where I’d be without the internet. I’ve taken amazing press pics recently with @braidandbloom on instagram too, a photography collective built by women!
How long were you making music before you got gigs? What was your experience getting gigs like? What venues and promoters would you turn to?
I’ve been gigging pretty much as long as I’ve been songwriting, there’s always gigs around London and Essex. I play a regular pub gig at The Eaglet in Seven Sisters, London more or less once a month, and I play around Essex and London regularly. I enjoyed playing at HotBox in Chelmsford which is a skate shop that turns into a music venue in the evening! The London and Essex music scene is really lively; I’ve just collected contacts along the way, mostly with the help from Undiscovered!
Congratulations on winning the Undiscovered Live Music Project! Does being ‘discovered’ matter to you? And did winning this award help put you on the map as it were?
Being ‘discovered’ is the ultimate goal, I guess! My dream is to make conceptual and visual pop albums, similar to Marina, Lana Del Rey, and Green Day - albums you want to buy in store and hold with the T-Shirt to match! I have a huge dream to do a world tour, but a big ‘stepping stone’ goal to headline a sold out show at The Roundhouse in Camden. I would also want to support Marina on tour. Winning Undiscovered meant alot to me and gave me a lot of faith in my career. I’ve gained the best contacts from Undiscovered!
I also read you’re aspiring to win the Stephen Hawking Science Communication Award. Explain a little about this- how do you promote science through your music?
Science is a big inspiration; I like to use scientific concepts metaphorically in my lyrics. I think it’s cool to communicate science through song. I found out watching videos about planets that Saturn is losing its rings in about 500 million years and it just came to me as a lyric and tune which ended up being one of the next singles ‘Saturn’s Rings’. I also like to talk about falling in love and using the biology behind that to decorate my lyrics. My two best friends are scientists so I do come to them when I find a concept to make sure I’m conveying it well in song. When I hear songs with scientific concepts they’re so colourful to me. I could listen to Drops of Jupiter all day, I just feel like I’m floating around in space. I want to use science in my lyrics as the writers of The Big Bang Theory would use it… creatively! I am no scientist but I do find it inspiring and would love to study it again at a higher level in maybe 10 years or so, but music is my number one!
What’s your local music scene like?
The London & Essex scene is so vibrant. I’ve met amazing people. One of my favourite artists I met at an open mic in London three years ago, his name is Valerio Lysander and he is incredible - funnily enough he also uses scientific concepts as inspiration sometimes too - see ‘I Don’t Know Why It Happens But It Happens’ which he gained inspiration from a VSauce video for. Chelmsford is an incredible place for music, home to BBC Essex and the Undiscovered Live Music Project, there are gigs there every night and everyone knows each other, it’s like a family!
Do you notice many women on the scene; not just musicians but technicians, promoters and so on? (In other words: Where are the girlbands?)
This is a good question, I definitely work with more female photographers than male - I think they really get how to style their models! My guitarist, @nicolelastaukas, I met through Undiscovered, she also plays for bands Fyresky and Let’s Be Strange. Nicole is an incredible musician. I love seeing female musicians doing their thing! My friend Evangeline played cello, double bass and violin on one of my upcoming releases! I have a lot of singer-songwriter gal pals on the scene, too.
Why do you follow @wherearethegirlbands?
We need more girl bands!
What are you up to at the moment in terms of gigs and releases?
I’m working on new singles for release, I don’t know when they’ll be released but I hope to get the songs finished during the lockdown period! No gigs coming up as they’ve been cancelled thanks to Covid-19!
Who are you listening to this week?
I love Doja Cat right now, but who doesn’t? I listen to Say So literally every day! The bass in it makes the floor shake! I also love Cyn, her visuals are incredible and she has a really unique tone. I’m listening to Conan Gray too, his new album is beautiful.
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