archeolatry

(n.) the worship of archaic customs, expressions, etc. A chronicle of obsessions, a smattering of curious images, and the occasional rusty clank of fandoms colliding.

[archeolatry]

Sparkslets Masterpost

So you may have seen some of @bawnjourno 's friendship bracelets pop up here on Tumblr or on Sparks' social media accounts. And since a couple of us have decided to follow suit (and because my Cat Wrangler brain loves rough estimates of participation/demand), I made a masterpost for giving/trading. If you'd to participate, then simply repost this here masterpost then add your own info in the body and tags. Also feel free to use the Sparkslets hashtag to share your handiwork!

Examples under the cut.

In the body of your post, include the following info:

Trading/Giving/Hoping Are you trading bracelets? Giving them out to whomever? Did you not make any but are hoping to receive some? State any and all that apply. Top 3 Albums: (or Top 5, if you must) No guarantee you'll get a Sparkslet representing your favorite album, but it's a fun metric. (Want a whole stack of Hippopotamus-related bracelets? Maybe it's someone else's fave too and they're itching to use every bead and letter to prove it.) And you never know, another fan might have one --or make one!-- just for you. Team Ron or Team Russell: YesYesYes, we love them both. But who do you love most? (Again, for metrics.)

In your tags, include the following info:

The #Sparkslets hashtag... So we can find you!

The region of the show/s you're attending... Japan (JP), the UK, Europe (EU), or North America (NA). Americans, add your state's 2-letter abbreviation.

...the city, and which night if there's more than one date there. If you're doing multiple dates in the same city, mark them as 1, 2, etc. If you're doing multiple cities, give them each their own tag. If you're going to a festival, use the festival's name. For example, if someone was going to both London shows AND one in Paris, their location tags would look like this: UK: London: Night 1 UK: London: Night 2 EU: Paris

Whereas someone doing an upper-midwestern US leg would tag like this: NA: OH: Cleveland NA: Toronto NA: IL: Riotfest Capiche? If there's enough general interest we (me/Daley) will see if we need to start a Google Sheet or something. If not, reblog amongst yourselves.

See you at the Sparks show!

[archeolatry]

I'm unsure if I actually posted this, but I was looking for some other file in my Recycle Bin and this was in it, so Here Ya Go.

[strike-another-match]

"christian characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are atheist" "atheist characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are christian" stop fighting. all human experience is poorly written in movies because the writers are californian

[mirrorfalls]

[archeolatry]

Hell, you can't even have Californians in California. If you don't like our screenwriters then stop letting the second most annoying guy from your local big-city improv troupe move here.

[archeolatry]

Okay, so if you're like me and would absolutely take No. 1 in Heaven to a desert island with you, this is sort of a look back towards the sounds that would eventually make that record possible. (This is, admittedly leaving out Wendy Carlos, Kraftwerk, Tomita and so many more, but it's a great primer.)

[archeolatry]

Tiny Russell continues apace.

Hair is like 90% done; he'll need some additional hair put on under the wig cap and some very small wefts here and there. Maybe a bit heavier on the fringe? But it'll have to wait until he has eyes and the wig cap can be secured.

[nemfrog]

Cats warned a girl about playing with matches. Look what happened. Das Struwwelpeter-album. 1900.

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[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[archeolatry]

@seaofreverie found this Instragram reel, I just downloaded it for posterity (and reposted it because you can't add video to a reblog).

"Wipe your mouth, bird."

[macedonia-alle-fragole]

i don’t care if he’s 81 we fucking

[archeolatry]

These and more amazing pics from the Syndney Opera House at The AU Review here.

Photo Gallery: Sparks - Vivid Sydney - Sydney Opera House (25.05.26) - The AU Review

Discover the best new music, travel, film, gaming, arts, food, culture and book content on Australia's premier independent online publicatio

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[archeolatry]

[8vb-girl]

Hello Christchurch! See you tonight at Christchurch Town Hall!

Via Bluesky

[bawnjourno]

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“The promoters responsible for this concert actually allowed Ron near a microphone to do his own radio ad for the show.” - Russell Mael

[lesbianbernardsumner]

Myusic thatchu can dance to that and that al- Yeah, I wrote that song. Hi. This is Ron Mael from Sparks. I’m using the money I made off of that Record to BUY Magic Mountain. Shockwave. Colossus. The parking lot.. the petting zoothe whole thing. It’s all mineYeeeaAAH YEAH YEEEAAAH!! Now, don’t worry; nothing’s gonna change. However, my close association with my brother. allows me to present on Saturday October 25th! for two shows!: us. ‘:). This is Sparks’ Final LA Appearance Of 1986 and I’m paying myself a lot of money to do this show. come to Ron’s Magic Mountain. I wanna go I wanna go I wann Hai this is Mr. Mael’s lahwier; Ron doesn’t actually own Magic Mountain he owes Magic Mountain. So, show your support for Spahks by coming to their last LA appearance this yeah, Saturday at the TDK showcase theeater. Help keep Ron on the stage and off ouhr streets ‘:/ I wanna go to cool places tonight

[archeolatry]

Okay so Ray reblogged this an hour ago and I'm only seeing these notes nearly two years to the day later.

[maxxie-or-smth]

you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life

[wulfhalls]

forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

[cumaeansibyl]

yeah I have political reasons for it now but my original and still most powerful reason is "I am not getting out of this bed one single second before I have to"

[aromanticduck]

[gyadzooks]

Ron sticks his GYATT out for The Rizzler -October, 1979