#remember some guys

[mywifeleftme]

357: Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band // Wede Harer Guzo

Wede Harer Guzo Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band 1970s, Ms Recording (Bandcamp)

I can’t 100% recall, but I’m pretty sure this was the first African record I ever bought (it was this or Nass El Ghiwane), and I wasn’t the only one—I’ve got a few friends with exactly one African record in their collection, and it’s this. When his music was rediscovered in 2016 after Awesome Tapes From Africa pressed this record (using Mergia’s own cassette copy as a source), Wede Harer Guzo became for western music nerds a part of that small company of gateway albums to the music of an entire continent. Let’s play a game of Remember Some Guys.

Remember Some Guys: That One African Record Edition

Expensive Shit Who is William Onyeabor? Wede Harer Guzo Nigeria 70 (The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos) A dollar bin Miriam Makeba LP uh TEN$ION Remain in Light (honorary)

God I’m tired. Anyway, I’ve always had kind of an uncertain relationship with this record. Mergia’s organ can sound like a cool balm on my aching brain or… elevator music. Dahlak Band can sound like a perfect fusion of the floaty “intellectual highlife” of Celestine Ukwu and the grooves of Booker T. and the MG’s… or, what were we talking about? An entire side just past me by unnoticed, yet again. I think this has more to do with me than it does with the record… though at a cassette-length hour-plus run time, some ideas do get repeated.

(Three ellipses in one paragraph… I think that’s more than I’ve used in this whole series so far. I’m so tired of writing these things man. I’m not even really divorced, I can’t wait to leave.)

Anyway, again, at its best, the record is transcendently beautiful. The way Mergia’s organ expands and contracts like the shimmer of light on dark water on “Anchin Kfu Ayinkash,” guitarist Dawit Kassa answering his pauses with little soulful licks… there the ellipses go again. Sometimes the record feels like it’s insinuating I should go to the lobby for more popcorn. Maybe I’ll buy Raisinettes?

It’s very good I’m saying, obviously. See you tomorrow.

357/365

#hailu mergia #dahlak band #ethio jazz #ethiopia #ethiopian music #african music #jazz #funk #music review #vinyl record #awesome tapes from africa #remember some guys #defector #'70s music

[tacticaltaxonomist]

Declutter Tumblr

The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I'm sure it'll give more options soon.

Vanilla Tumblr:

(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn't have any. I'm EU so no Live for me).

Xkit Rewritten Tumblr:

The settings I use:

#tumblr #xkit rewritten #tumblr dash #tumblr dashboard #undescribed #tactaxtalks #// well this escalated quickly! remember i'm just some guy #but if you want help with xkit or general tumblr feel free to send an ask/anon/dm

[queermasculine]

having unsupervised internet access at 14 was crazy.. click one wrong link and suddenly you're being transmasculinized for life by old man yaoi

#trying to remember what did it for me #probably tf2 #i know there's some metal gear guys in here

[give-bucky-his-boyfriend-back]

You can let me get up to an altar, put a ring on my finger and let me sign some certificate but I still wouldn't be as married as Cas and Dean in Lily Sunder has some regrets

Married.

#couldnt fond a gif of the bickering in the car but im sure you guys remember #spn #destiel #supernatural #lily sunder has some regrets

[arcane-gold]

reposting bc pinterest got a hold of this one

REPOSTOBER no. 2

#olruggio #qifrey #orufrey #witch hat atelier #wha #my art #remember this one y’all #it actually jumpscared me yesterday when i opened up the pinterest app #thankfully there are some knights in the comment section fighting for my honor #mentioning my username and everything #thanks guys #repostober

[pherre]

average travis player character: some sort of guy with backstory happenings of various levels of tragedy

average clint player character: old man with a mischievous streak (always on the verge of death)

average griffin player character: lil guy with impostor syndrome and trying SO hard

average justin player character: the weirdest person anyone has ever heard of, ever

#aubrey counts as some sort of guy #i didn't account ethersea into this because i didn't finish it and i don't remember their characters #but justin's characters always surprise me theyre so fucking weird and excellent in concept at the same time #duck tries to be normal so bad and fails #taz #taz dracula lb #edit: listen to steeplechase neow. for me

[bastardlybonkers]

feetman

#hlvrai #half live vr but the ai is self aware #gordon freeman #gordon feetman #so idk if theres any like ‘metastory’ to there being a player or if its literally just supposed to be wayne #but i thought it would be kinda interesting for the player to be his own guy #cause like to me #a big part of it that makes it fun is that gordon has like #no actual stakes #dude is getting pissed for the sake of it #he knows its a game and is just freaking out at the ai being so alive u know #now since i cant remember if theres some kind of canon or metastory to the player you can completely decide for yourself why hes playing #or how he got the game #is he just some guy? is it an experiment? is it for his job? who knows! #hes The Player #also if ur wondering why his design is so similar to gordons #its cause i didnt wanna stray into the unrecognizable lmao #also. i really really really didnt wanna draw the fucking suit #and yes thats benrey on the tamagotchi #i think it would be very funny if he could cart them all around in tamagotchis #sorry for long tags

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 5: Flip Slip.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 4.5)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #Yungmang Jiang Training Arc AU #lan wangji #wei wuxian #digital art #Trying out some digital techniques to see if I can get closer to feel/style of my traditional comics. #So far the biggest difference is *colouring* Digital colouring feels...not good. I have complained about this before and I'll complain agai #Before we get into the sad stuff with Yungmeng Jiang in the PD-MDZS comics lets have some lighthearted fun! #Remember that if anything bad happens to these Jiang disciples in the canon comic - they are happy in this AU B'*) #I think one of the funniest things about the teenxian dynamic is how WWX accidently finds things that get LWJ to feel flustered. #My guy wwx goes 'I'm going to lightly bully/tease this nerd 'cause his reactions are funny.' and LWJ goes “My god. He's everything to me.” #Part two of the fun part of this dynamic is that LWJ is ever so lightly self aware enough to LOATHE THIS CRUSH. #Hence why I have been marinating on this 'Accidental Lan headband miscommunication' concept. #This is how LWJ assumes that WWX knows what the band means in this AU. This will be relevant later. #And YES! I am still going to be making comics for this AU. I have so many ideas I simply can't hold onto forever.

[oifaaa]

So much respect for which ever mad bastard at dreamworks said fuck it let's actually make a good Puss in Boots movie and not just another pitiful cash grab this kitty deserves better so true

#puss in boots #i cant remember the last dream works movie i enjoyed this much ngl #its been a while #i wasn't expecting puss in boots to be different #i saw some people praising it #but i also saw people praising bad guys #which eh was kinda just fine for me #but puss was actually a good movie #go watch it if you haven't #im a wee bit late to the game tho so most of you probably have lol #oifaaaposts

[seldompathic]

A classic era "no u" before bed

#sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic art #miles tails prower #sonic comics #my art #the SILLIES #ive said it once and Ill say it again #they are the brothers of all time #this was rushed because I have to work soon but i hope its not god awful #i love you guys- remember to drink some water!! ✨️

[sadisthetic]

goop

#i keep on gooping him for some fucking reason #my art #danny fenton #danny phantom #guy who has repeatedly procrastinated hw with fanart for the past week #also this was supposed to be a colored piece but then i remembered. i hate coloring. i dont have a painting method. i dont know colors #at least not digitally #this sounds fucked up but im actually decent at gouache and oils #but i cant apply those skills digitally tho for some freaking reason #if this angle looks familiar dont look at me this is my 3/4s view crutch.

[mywifeleftme]

222: Metal Urbain // Les hommes mort sont dangereux

Les hommes mort sont dangereux Metal Urbain 1981, Celluloid

This past summer I listened to a bunch of archived John Peel radio show broadcasts from 1978. Aside from the considerable pleasures of soaking in Peel’s dry, sardonic point of view, there was something voyeuristically thrilling about hearing how familiar punk anthems first hit the airwaves. Whether it be listening to Peel enjoy the Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” so much he’s compelled to play it twice in a row; hearing the introduction of Los Angeles’s X to UK audiences; or even realizing that in the heart of the punk era he was still playing Van Der Graaf Generator and the Albion Band right alongside the new wavers, the exercise offered a context to the songs and era that experiencing the tracks as discrete works lacks.

It was also a reminder of just how fertile the scene was, the programmes studied with (mostly) forgotten bands who disappeared after making a handful of miraculous seven-inches. So, let’s Remember Some Guys.

Remembering Some Guys: John Peel Discoveries Edition

Llygod Ffyrnig: An incredible Welsh punk band (trans. The Ferocious Mice) with one three-track single that everyone should hear this instant: “N.C.B.”

Radio Stars: English New Wave band by one of the other guys in Sparks. They made a song about Baffin Island (called “Baffin Island”)!

pragVEC: Cool London post-punk band with synth contributions from Jim Thirlwell: “Nervous”

La Peste: Boston punk band and authors of one ink black perfect single called “Better Off Dead”

Snakefinger: Okay, the Residents aren’t a discovery, but the Snakefinger solo track “The Spot” sure was to me! It’s so good!

Tyla Gang: Pub rock that kicks the unsuspected crotch that joins Johnny Thunders with the J. Geils Band, they have at least one track that I could carve on my heart: “No Roses”

Automatics: “When the Tanks Roll Over Poland Again” was a new wave number one track in 1978! I ain’t never had heard of it neither. C’est parfait.

Fabulous Poodles: Probably should’ve found them sooner! The Who/Kinks-y rock, let’s hear “Mirror Star” again why don’t we?

Strangeways: “Show Her You Care” is pure shake & pop heaven, feels so giddy it might shake itself and you to pieces.

The Desperate Bicycles: DIY never had a truer troupe of champions and were it not for their refusal to reissue their material in any form, they might be known as punk’s Beat Happening. Try “Smokescreen”!

Skids: Art punks from Dunfermline, Scotland, they’re heavy enough to be a NWOBHM band, but with all sorts a weird skittering going on. Six times? “Six Times”!

Metal Urbain, about which more below.

Metal Urbain were one of France’s first punk bands and a Peel fav that skipped right over a few stages of evolution and hatched fully formed with 1977’s “Paris Maquis” (a reference to the WWII French Resistance) single as a “synth punk” band in the same year the Damned and the Pistols were just getting off the blocks. (The same year, incidentally, that Suicide’s first LP dropped on the other side of the Atlanic.) Employing a cheapo drum machine in place of a human percussionist, Metal Urbain were nasty, snarling anti-everything punks with a laudable hatred for fascists and some rather less laudable hatred toward women (the grotesque shocker “Crève Salope,” or “Die Bitch”). The drum machine gives their simple songs a jerking, pitiless momentum, and if most of their songs sound pretty samey, at least they’re all playing the same pretty great punk song. Singer Eric Débris sounds kinda like a harsher Joe Strummer (plus that sort of wet, venomous quality French speakers get when they snarl), and they consistently find riffs that feel like exposed switchblades.

Still, they do have a hair more range than most retrospectives grant them. The skulking “Snuff Movie” finds them traipsing onto Suicide’s streets, while “Pop Poubelle” (“Pop Trash”) pulls the archetypal punk move of dolling out a super catchy surf-inspired lick on the song about how catchy pop music sucks and is bad. 1981’s Les hommes morts song dangereux (Dead Men Are Dangerous) compilation rounds up nearly everything they did during their original run, and makes for a convincing statement: every punk fan should hear the likes of “Futurama,” “Panik,” and “Hystérie connective”—so what’s stopping ya?

222/365 

#metal urbain #remember some guys #guy remembering #'70s music #'80s music #punk #synth punk #french punk #defector #deadspin #music review #vinyl record

[fernsnailz]

sonc

#i finally figured out my favorite way of drawing this guy and then immediately got hit with some of the worst burnout of my life <3 #i made these a couple weeks ago i think? dont remember lol #fern's sketchbook #sonic the hedgehog #sth

[whosectype]

I watched the new Spider-Man across the spiderverse

#spider man across the spider verse #miles morales #my art #spiderman #peter Parker #i do not remember thr other guys names #spider punk #Spider Gwen #Shitpost #it was late when I drew this ok #And now it’s early morning :( #Omg it’s freaking funny that this post kind blew up a lil bit #Well blew up in terms of the attention my blog usually gets #I Imagine ppl have come to my blog for more spiderverse content #And then all they see is Cddwtd shipping and au crap and they’re like #What the fuck #That’s so funny to me for some reason ALSKDNJD #WHAT #THIS IS MY FIRST POST TO REACH 1K NOTES? #great #1k

[martitheevans]

Shows from the 60s/70s will always consist of the main characters going through the most insane, life-changing, traumatising experience and then having a shot of them all laughing together at the end and proceeding to never speak of it ever again

#the yapper yaps #'hey jeff remember that time these guys tried to kill you and you spent a whole night in a cold wet well until some tourists found you?' #no i don't shut up remember when you literally died #randall and hopkirk deceased #star trek #the time tunnel #six million dollar man #actually fucking hate six million dollar man but dammit if it doesn't count #m*a*s*h #mash #“hey hutch remember when those guys drugged you with heroin and you got addicted then spent days high and confused and short tempered?” #Starsky do you remember when you got injected with something to kill you in twenty four hours and you just survived with an hour remaining? #starsky and hutch #posts that went crazy viral lowkey

[buppkizz]

a very small engiespy moment...

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 engineer #tf2 spy #engiespy #what do you guys call this ship idk i am out of the loop #yea it does say 9/11 that's my hc since it's his meet the team vid upload date LOL #this is so old i used to write so extra messy lol #i feel like i literally always have a reason for x thing but i cant for the life of me remember why i picked 1925 tho... #some tags are confused ...blnd means blonde lol