Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos! is Aromantic and Transgender!
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If you were given the option
Of dying painlessly in peace at forty-five
But with a lover at your side
After a full and happy life
Is this something that would interest you?
Would this interest you at all?
✯ In Media Res, Los Campesinos!
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Tom Smith joins Bromley on loan
Our 20-year-old goalkeeper has joined the National League side on a season-long loan
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Live Editing Session with Tom Bromley | Reedsy Learning
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also this is the song that inspired it wont feel like youve won
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Roots | How Joy Orbison's 'Hyph Mngo' Sparked An Underground Revolution
The year is 2009 and one debut single is about to revolutionize electronic music forever, its maker - a 22 year old kid from South London, Peter O'Grady.
The late naughties were arguably the most exciting time for the development of dance music. Dubstep had firmly embedded the sounds of its deep basslines into the veins of the UK underground at the hands of pioneers like Skream and Benga. Labels like Hessle Audio began to emerge, pushing the boundaries of what exactly a club record could be. Had the constraints formed by the origins of dubstep, the very foundations of the genre, begun to render it stale?
June 25th, 2009, Rinse FM, Blackdown in the mix - "I'm not gonna lie... This tune is massive." That was the very moment those iconic synth lines drew their first breath, and Joy Orbison became hot sh*t. Nearly 15 years later it remains a dancefloor anthem and has become a timeless classic.
Broken punchy bass drums, rising euphoric chords, and the lushest of pads all held together by a vocal sample from Janet Jackson's 1989 'Love Will Never Do (Without You)'. There are few records that saw as much club time as this A' side, yet somehow it slipped through the cracks and dodged the status of 'rinsed' - or maybe it didn't but it's just too f*cking good to leave on the shelf.
Nevertheless, it didn't avoid criticism (does anything?). Simon Reynolds wasn't a fan and labeled it "undeveloped" - however he was quickly rebutted by Tom Lea of FACT Mag who said "It’s the dude’s first single: he’s got a lifetime to hone song structure. For now, he’s created a moment." I like that statement - the idea that this track is more than just a piece of music, it's a moment, an encapsulated experience, one that lives on decades after its creation. That, for me, is what makes this record such a rarity.
'Hyph Mngo' tells the story of a young producer who broke the rules and rose to stardom. Today we know Joy Orbison as one of the best in the game, with a back catalog of immaculate solo works and collaborations like Joy Overmono's 'Bromley' to prove it.
I leave you with this quote from Carlo Rovelli's '7 Brief Lessons On Physics', one that I believe highlights the beauty of the beyond - the same innovative beauty that the substratum of Joy O's 'Hyph Mngo' was forged upon in 2009.
"Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful - incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined."
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sonic subversion mix vol 2: cicada's hum
tracklist:
come down to us-- burial
deep in vogue-- malcolm mclaren
summer in paris-- dj cam
policy of truth-- depeche mode
ben's my friend-- sun kil moon
forget me nots (club mix)-- la bouche
higher (original mix)-- dj bone
pull up-- blanco
days-- telivision
cheshm be rah-- shohreh
halcyon and on and on-- orbita
digimon-- dj diamond
alin-- whitefield brothers
cumbia sobre el mar-- trio serenata
soulstar-- knxwledge
a walk in the park-- dj minx
lambi judaai-- reshma
most pit-- dj trouble
on a ragga tip '97 (original mix)-- sl2
kandaiki-- mammal hands
fatal attraction-- detroit's filthiest
polynomial-c-- aphex twin
simply funk-- aoki takamasa
meaning of love-- karin krog
law laffeina el ard-- maha
cloudy-- daphni
cannavaro-- khalab, clap! clap!
love triumphant-- theo parrish
no rise-- TALsounds
genius of love-- tom tom club
sparky's dream-- teenage fanclub
bringing home the ashes-- the wild swans
bromley-- joy orbison, overmono
gabriel (live garage version)- roy davis jr., peven everett
deja vu (musaria mix)-- larry heard, musaria
everything u need-- overmono
sixteen blue (outtake)(alternate vocal)-- the replacements
rip it up-- orange juice
spae talk-- asha puthli
king in my empire (burial mix)(mixed)-- rhythm & sound, cornell campbell
looking up to you-- michael wycoff
cardiology (isolee mix)- recloose
television (all night long version)-- sideshow, cortney tidwell
let me be yours-- lillo thomas
release-- kelly lee owens
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This is as funny and charming as I thought it would be. Tom Allen is typically hilarious and self-effacing, and pleasingly bitchy about his home town of Bromley. His descriptions of his relationship with his parents are lovely, and his discussions of growing up being 'different', and his journey of self-acceptance, are moving. He also talks about the importance of reflecting on the past, "if we are ever to value how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go." #currentlyreading📚 #bookstagram (at Boundary Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CidjbaNKUnW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos! is Aromantic and Trans Masc!
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Left your home town for somewhere new
Don't be surprised now it's leaving you
Another weekday night alone
The rise of rent, the fall of home
The fall of home
Battery dies on your monthly call
Budget cut at your primary school
Another family friend fell sick
Gave the fascists a thousand ticks
✯ The Fall of Home, Los Campesinos!
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Free Creative Writing Exercises: Prompts to Write With Emotion
Free Creative Writing Exercises: Prompts to Write With Emotion
Download this free PDF worksheet with five prompts for how to convey emotions in your fiction or nonfiction
We connect with stories writing through how they make us feel—a character’s reactions often guide us through a narrative, whether it’s a song, poem, short story, novel, or even a letter. So for many writers, the question of how to write emotions effectively is key.
Tom Bromley…
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Skutter scenes by Tom Bromley. More at source.
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The Woman Condemned (1934)
The Woman Condemned (1934)
DOROTHY DAVENPORT
Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB
USA, 1934. Willis Kent Productions. Screenplay by Willis Kent. Cinematography by James Diamond. Produced by Willis Kent. Music by Lee Zahler. Film Editing by S. Roy Luby.
Dorothy Davenport was a silent screen star who produced and directed a number of films under the name “Mrs. Wallace Reid”, among them this zippy and involving dramatic thriller.…
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Just posted chapter 8 of “as we go marching, marching” on AO3! Give it a look if you like the films 1917 (2019), Pride (2014), or if you just want some cute 80s gays
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