i like to draw for fun, but i get anxious posting it here. i have a wild list of interests but my current hyperfixations are; hfjone, UT/DR, and alve games
dni; i dont typically do dnis but please do not interact with my content if you; support gun violence, glorify true crime/have any relation to true crime, paraphiliacs, racist, homophobic, proship, liamxairy shippers
byf; i selfship myself with canon characters, and im a furry. so if you dont like that i wouldnt follow ;(
im starting my series called airys tape collection where i talk about one cassette a day. starting off with pearl jams ‘ten’ album
i really like this tape. my favorite album is ‘no code’ but i don’t have that one yet. it plays very smoothly on my player, and the j-card is very creative. probably my favorite out of my collection. you can see the whole image below.
i think my favorite track from this album is ‘oceans’. like an ocean itself: the suspense in this track heightens and calms like waves.
the guitar and bass have echoey, synthesizer-ish sounds. they dance and weave throughout the constant metronomic rhythm of the drums, which i interpret as symbolizing the ocean’s currents, and the ocean floor, respectively.
the slightly distorted voice effects added to this track in particular mesh really well with the instrumentation, to the point where the singer himself becomes yet another instrument. he isnt trying to dominate the track or stand above the score, but rather he flows throughout it. gives me a visual of the singer becoming one with the water, rather than sailing or surfing on top of it.
8/10 tape. i really like pearl jam.
when i find out how to hook my player up to a speaker for my phone to pick up, i will post a video of the audio.
Review of Jeff Mangum's and the Music Tapes' shows at Irvine Auditorium at University of Pennsylvania, on 25th January 2012. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 27th January 2012.
Transcript:
[Jeff Mangum inspired shouts of "You're an angel" during his show at Irvine Auditorium. Tickets sould out in seconds.]
Review Music
Adoring crowd for a revered rocker
Jeff Mangum, who resumed performing as mysteriously as he quit, was embraced at Penn.
by Jonathan Valania
for the Inquirer
In 1998, Neutral Milk Hotel released an album of hallucinatory folk-rock called In the Aeroplane Over the Sea that is, it can be said without fear of exaggeration, nothing short of a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Like My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, it is lightning caught in a bottle, one of those rare perfect albums that come along maybe once a decade.
Or once a lifetime.
In 1999, Jeff Mangum — Neutral Milk’s singer, songwriter, and primary guitarist — disappeared from public life without explanation, declining all entreaties to perform or discuss the album or record a follow-up. Over the course of his decade-long Salinger-like hermitage, succeeding generations have discovered and come to revere the album, and as such it has become something like The Catcher in the Rye of indierock.
Two years ago he emerged from seclusion and started performing again, refusing to offer any explanation for his mysterious disappearance or sudden return. No matter. The ambiguity only seems to heighten the intrigue of his legend. Thursday night's performance at the Irvine Auditorium, at Penn, sold out in 35 seconds.
Taking the stage dressed in a white cranberry-checked cowboy shirt and a droopy gray Mao cap, the 41-year-old Louisiana-born Mangum waved hello, took a seat, strapped on an acoustic guitar and tore into the slashing, Who-like opening chords of “Two-Headed Boy,” blaring
the agony and ecstasy of the lyric with his trademark, heart-tugging yelp like it was 1998 all over again.
Although the passing years may have shaved off a high note or two from his range, his sheer lung power and anthemic strumming formed a powerful twin engine of raw beauty and ed emotion.
For the next hour, he ran down the hulk of Aeroplane's bruised majesty with sporadic detours into rough gems from its predecessor, 1996's On Avery Island, and “Little Birds,” the only known post-Aeroplane song he's written. Occasionally he was backed by trumpet or singing saw from former Neutral Milk sideman Julian Koster, whose current band, the Music Tapes, opened the show with a whimsical set of wistful post-rock circus music.
For the first third of the performance, the audience sat in hushed reverence, which was a little too quiet for Mangum's liking. “You guys can yell things at me, you don't have to be polite," he said at one point. From then on, the end of songs were punctuated with shout-outs from the audience. "You're an angel" “You made me love music!" Mangum said that these songs were like “messages in a bottle” and he is deeply moved by how far and wide they have circulated and how beloved they have become. Amen, brother. Long live the King of Carrot Flowers.
Jonathan Valania is editor-in-chief of Phawker.com
It’s been a while so here’s some more Paregui fanart 🩷 I refuse to let go of this canceled series
there’s some mlp and a sprinkle of hfjone. I’m really proud of how my Celestia and Luna drawings turned out. The Cadence one was for valentine’s day but I forgot to post it
ignore the red glare towards the bottom of some of the images, I was wearing a red shirt so the light was casting onto my drawings 💔 also the images are so fucking huge I’m sorry lmao
look how ugly my human drawings are now look at my ponies 😭😭🙏 I actually need to lock in
It is called that cause it has spots, like a Leopard (its spots don’t look anything like the spots on leopard) There are other seals that also have spots that aren’t leopard seals.
^ Not a leopard seal, you can tell by the fact it’s cute! Most seals look like Mermaid Dogs with cute puppy heads
Leopard Seals do not have cute heads, their heads are shaped weird, like a dragon or a shark. Or a shark dragon!
That’s probably cause they use their faces to eat penguins.
The inside of their mouths are very scary looking.
We know this because they think that a camera is an open mouth, and so when they see a camera guy they think they’re supposed to open their mouth too.
“Don’t open your mouth at me, my mouth is bigger see, what’s your problem strange shaped big mouthed bro!”
At one point a leopard seal decided the camera guy had his “mouth” open because he was hungry and tried to bring him food.
And kept bringing penguins, first live penguins, then slow injured penguins, then dead penguins in the hopes that camera guy would be able to eat “I all ready killeded it for you and everything! Your mouth is open! Just eat the penguin!”
“What if I just put it in your mouth for you.”
Leopard Seals also like music. In the wild Leopard Seals sing underwater to find other seals since they live so far away from each other during mating season both males and females sing to find a mate.
They are not kept in captivity, but a zoo in Taronga rescued one after he was attacked by a shark. The seal washed up on the beach wounded, sick, and far from home, so when the seal in their zoo sang (maybe he was lonely) they tried to sing back.
They may not be cute like other seals.
And their faces still look weird even as babies.
But they’re nice in their own way (as long as you’re not a penguin).
Or unlucky enough to be attacked by one, because they are large predators (and probably in the top ten in terms of deadly ocean creatures). Since they don’t live near humans and have no idea what people are and they might think “can I eat that?” if they see a person. Predators often try to answer the “can I eat that” question by trying to eat that and so there have been a few attacks.
Do not try to pet one.
Why would you want to?
They look like shark dragons or dragon sharks!
All the same, it’s pretty cool these clever, singing, IRL sea monsters exist.
