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@Harry_Styles:Ā Louisā first ever cookingĀ experience ;) x
@Harry_Styles: Louis loving life atĀ rehearsals! x
@Harry_Styles: Hughey louis!!! x
@Harry_Styles: The door got jammed and louisā stuck in Ā the recording booth!! haha x
āAlbum campaigns are supposed to have music videos. Historically, I have handed responsibility for those over to my dear friend, life guru, and sometime social media manager Ryan Pearce. Unfortunately we have been living something of a restricted life for the last few months due to a global pandemic. In addition to this, my entirely home-made and 100% hit-free new record āLast Nightās Glitterā has been put together with a budget totalling zero pounds (or Eurosā¦), so when it came to working out how best to go about making a video for one of its songs, my wife and I hatched a plan to advance bravely into modernity, more specifically its preferred aspect ratio of 9:16, easily achieved by way of my mobile telephone. She built a beautiful set in the corner of my home studio, featuring the paintings weād done for the Last Nightās Glitter lyric video, and a cardboard surround for our old TV, and we set about throwing as much interesting stuff through said TV as we could. Much of what we went for came from my family video archive, so expect some Birthday/Christmas unwrapping gold, a 7 year oldās recreation of Queenās āCrazy Little Thing Called Loveā music video, and the skateboarding antics of a perpetually fearful teen. And the dog, obviously.ā
Brand new song from me, brand new lyric video made by my wife and I. Pre-order a limited edition vinyl from my merch page, if you like. xxxx
apparently someone in utah is putting posters with that pregnant harry manip on them all over orem & provo and i hope that person is having a good day
Holy shit, this is a real story, lmaoooooo, what kind of god-tier brain is out there living their best life in Utah on this fine October day
I MEAN:
I LOVE YOU, MYSTERIOUS UTAH PRANKSTER!!
update via louflowersx on twitter:
yesterday i read this article and it just made me so happy
I particularly loved this quote:
āWe are sure they would be good parents because they were so nice to their stone.ā
how do cats even work
Cats:
A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.
The little tufts of hair in a catās ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called āear furnishings.ā
The ability of a cat to find its way home is called āpsi-traveling.ā Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.
One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.
A catās nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.
If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133Ā Ā°F.
A catās heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
Ā Cats donāt have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.
The claws on the catās back paws arenāt as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back donāt retract and, consequently, become worn.
Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.
Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.
A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.
A catās back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.
Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their ārighting reflex.ā The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.
A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49Ā km) over a short distance.
A catās hearing is better than a dogās. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.
A catās brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dogās. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.
And thatās how cats work.
I learned more about cats in this post than I did in my freshamn biology class in college
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āformer emosā this āformer emosā that yeah ok some of us have been emo this whole time
i cant believe my chemical romance came back on fucking halloween. emos rejoice.
halloween 2019 mood
Hello everyone. Iām pleased to announce Iāll be out and about with my pals VLMV next month for a tiny handful of concerts. Just me, a guitar, and maybe the odd loop or two for old timesā sake. If you think just guitar means I wonāt be playing that one song however, youād be wrong. Sunny aināt it? See you there.
Twenty Years of Oceansize
Twenty Years of Oceansize. Ā Goodness me. Ā Iāve been no stranger to a totally heart-on-sleeve outpouring about how much I love this band since my discovery of them (thanks to the shameless internet piracy* of the MSN age and the drummer in my high school bandā¦I wish I saw him moreā¦thatās right, Iām referencing my own work hereā¦), and Iāll let the twentieth anniversary of (I think?) their first ever rehearsal continue the trend. Ā Iāll do a book one day. Ā For your fucking kindle.
Iāll start back at that night. Ā The one with the MSN piracy. Ā The aforementioned drummer-in-high-school-band, aware of my love for all things turn of the century British alternative rock (The Cooper Temple Clause, Vex Red, Hundred Reasons, Muse, etc.), sent over an MP3 so enormous it took my cheap-as-you-like dial-up modem the thick end of probably two hours to get hold of the damned thing**. Ā He promised me it would be, like, totally worth it. Ā I can confirm that the time-slowing, mind-expanding, āholy shit, this is it, this is the best thing Iāve ever heard, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for, it is LITERALLY never going to get better than thisā moment that followed my first listen of the nigh-on ten-minute work*** was indeed worth it.
So much of my formative years are wrapped up in this band. Ā Without trying to turn this into a completely duck-faced emo top-down profile pic****, seeing them play live (any one of the 40, yes, 40 times I did so) pretty much replaced spending any reasonable amount of time with a mental health practitioner throughout my later teens and earlier twenties. Ā They were the last band my Mum ever dropped me off to go and see at the (proper) Birmingham Academy, the first band I saw after sheād died*****, the (live) soundtrack to my first kiss with my wife, and tens of wonderful nights out with friends and fellow devotees along the way. Ā Notable highlights include pretty much every time they played the Stoke Sugarmill, that bizarre one-off special at a theatre in Bracknell where I finally met Dave from Reading, wiping the fucking floor with the Smashing Pumpkins at Manchester Arena, and that time at Leeds Cockpit when Forward Russia were the support******.
Itās still the music I turn to when Iām feeling lost. Ā I remember one particularly dark night on a tour somewhere, a seemingly inescapable gloom was lessened firstly by a long call home to my wife, and secondly an hour or so of picking out the most life-affirmingly floaty and lyric-tattoo worthy parts of the bandās output. Ā And of course, an overpriced bag of crisps from the minibar once Iād finally cried myself to being absolutely fucking starving. Ā When I first started flying regularly (or should that be frequently?) for work, I had this ridiculously dramatic and morbid habit of trying to always have Oceansize playing during take-off and landing, because they are statistically the parts of a flight where youāre most likely to crash and die, and if that were to happen to me Iād want to make sure I made mine exit to the greatest music Iāve ever known. Ā Into the sky you go, etc. Ā Dramatic? Ā Me?
These days Iām lucky enough, or maybe just persistent enough and sufficiently unthreatening in stature, to number much of the band amongst my friends, colleagues and peers. Ā Iām sure though that theyāll always see me as the weird kid from the front row, red of hair, red of shirt (I really was such a fucking loser), no matter how much I might think my record deal and involvement in the upper echelons of pop touring through current employment might outweigh my former embarrassments. Ā
I could go on, and on, and on, but Iāll save that for my inevitably self-published Oceansize biography, coming to a tax-dodging online store near you, one day before I shuffle off the Earth (lifus exitus). Ā
The next time Iām a sufficient number of sheets to the wind to consider JƤgermeister a good idea, Iāll be sure to toast this unbelievably fucking brilliant band, and all they did for me and some of my very best friends. Ā Until then, Iāll just have some fizzy water.
Take extra special care*******.
*Given that pretty much every penny of my means tested Education Maintenance Allowance from the age of 16 to 18 went on either watching this band live, clothing myself with their wares (wears?) or buying multiple formats of whatever they released, Iām sure this is forgivable. Ā And hey, these days weāre all happily paying to let our favourite bands be robbed fucking blind by the streaming services, so thereās a lot to be said for some good old-fashioned pirate turned obsessive fanboy action. In an ideal world, Iād be the (ultra fucking successful) fan turned peer, asked by the record company to collate a āLegacy Editionā deluxe CD boxset, replete with hours of rehearsal room fuzz-thickened demo tapes, all housed in a fabulous sleeve with totally fucking heartfelt liner notes by, well, me. Ā But this isnāt an ideal world, in so, so many ways.
**Honestly, some of you who may find yourselves reading this; you donāt know youāre fucking born.
***Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs; the first thing I ever heard by Oceansize, and the last thing they ever played together. Ā Oh god, I thought itād take longer than thisā¦where are the fucking tissues?
****Because, back then, words as horrifying as āselfieā werenāt around, although the limitless narcissism of social media was already at full fucking throttle.
*****I think Iāve already talked about it being the tour on which they debuted the song Music for a Nurse, the timing and significance of which still absolutely fucking blows my mind.
******That was the first time I heard them play Massive Bereavement I thinkā¦I probably should have put that in the playlist. Ā I ripped that song off absolutely fucking mercilessly on the original version of ā18thā, released in about 2006 on some CD-R album Iād made in my bedroom.
*******Donāt act like that wasnāt always going to be the sign off for a blog post celebrating the tenth anniversary of the tenth anniversary.
His new album (feat. Dan Smith, no less) is out in March.
New song, new video.Ā My first new material in over two years.Ā I am, as the kids say, or at least used to say (Iām probably way out of the loopā¦),Ā āmad hypedā
OCEANOGRAPHY by CHARLIE BARNES 09.03.18
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Germanic touring, commenceā¦
Have you seen the frankly mucky video for More Stately Mansions yet? Watch here: https://youtu.be/w4fZO6j6I2s
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