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thinking about the time I was officer barrel in urinetown

#female presenting and 5’3 mind you #there ain’t no way my ass was throwing 6ft bobby off a building #they killed me by lifting me up into the air and then little sally blunt force trauma’d me with a baby doll #yeah I’ll put this in the tag why not #Urinetown #*train whistle*

Sure, StEx has had forty years of changes but every version still lives, if you just believe

#the jpn/aus tour is going on right now guys I swear #Buffy and Ashley are still in Bochum it’s 1991 #it’s 1988 and Broadway still has half a run left #new London just opened like last week #how can you miss anything when it’s still alive right now?#casts come and go it’s okay they’ll always be there actually #starlight express #*train whistle*

kevin kohler as a concept is so funny to me. imagine winning a contest to be in a roller skating musical 15 years ago and then becoming the poster child for it

#guy of all time honestly #starlight express #*train whistle*

Can’t wait to make my triumphant return to The Fandom. I just have to finish The Big Important Project

#it’s coming I swear #I just need an ounce of free time #*train whistle*

new TWRP album

#twrp #twrp band #god it’s such a lovely album too #compared to digital nightmare being so sitting alone at your computer at night while you process burnout and a breakup coded #longest weekend is like taking a long deep diaphragmatic breath of fresh air at the lakehouse #the acoustic guitar is a welcome addition #*train whistle*

I just know they’re in the weirdest love hexagon you’ve ever seen

#stex #*train whistle*

Okay I have more thoughts on TWRP’s new album and their music as a whole

I have listened to The Longest Weekend several times over now and while I do really like it’s relaxing on vacation storyline, it’s not my favorite of their albums. However, what’s more fascinating to me is how it connects to Digital Nightmare and their post-pandemic musical journey.

I’ve been a fan of TWRP since the release of Guardians of the Zone in 2016 and have listened to every EP before that. Everything post-The Device has that spacefaring, high-kicking, awesome because it’s a little nerdy, late 80s processed vibe that they quickly became known for. And it’s excellent music! Some of the best bass and drum lines to come out of the mid 2010s and it’s no wonder they became so well-liked.

But there is a very distinct musical shift between Return to Wherever which was released in Summer 2019 and Over the Top in Fall 2020, which was, as everyone knows, the start of the pandemic. Suddenly, instead of defeating bad guys with nunchucks and the power of friendship, we’re singing about how drastically life has changed in a few short months and we need to stick together in crazy times and believe in the facts and believe in love. And all of this over beautiful rock/funk arrangements.

Over the Top kickstarted this wonderful new era of TWRP where each album has a specific thematic message, as opposed to the generic funky fun of the first decade and a half. A new era that’s a little more heartfelt. Over the Top is the pandemic album. It’s about trusting in truth, getting through hard times together, and hoping for the future. New & Improved, despite only being released a year later, feels very post-pandemic. Although a slight return to form with an energy similar to Together Through Time, there is an evolved edge, especially with the first half of the album. And the little EP that could, Friends of the Blues warns about the dangers of consumerism, and the disillusionment of capitalism even in perceived utopias.

And of course, Digital Nightmare, an album that I would argue is the most thematically interesting of their discography. TWRP’s music has always had a science fiction feel, it’s cemented in their brand as artists. But Digital Nightmare is the first album of theirs that depicts technology in a negative light. (Save for Friends of the Blues, but that has a cult thing going on) On any other album, Dream Vacation would be a positive, a fun piece of science fiction. But instead, it’s dystopian. The vacation is just in your mind. Get back to work. Make more content for the algorithm. Congratulations, you have insomnia from looking at a screen all day, and you can’t interact with other humans outside of the veil of technology. And that’s just the first half of the album. The last half explores a storyline that TWRP has seldom depicted: a breakup. And compared to the few other songs they have about this, Firewall, Ladybug, Again and Again, and A Human’s Touch feel a little too raw to be comparable to the likes of Computer Wife. A Human’s Touch is the standout especially. The strings, the layered lyrics, and the vocals make it definitely one of TWRP’s best.

The album art itself is unusual too. Almost every other TWRP album cover depicts either the outdoors or space. Natural settings. But Digital Nightmare is inside, artificial. There is nothing natural about those fluorescent lights, stiff curtains, and the unidentifiable technology waiting in the wings.

So now we come to The Longest Weekend, a real vacation. This album was teased for a hot minute before its release. Compared to Digital Nightmare, which is sitting alone at your computer at night, The Longest Weekend is the morning of your first day on vacation at the lakehouse. It’s fresh, it’s rejuvenating, and it’s utterly removed from society. These two albums are so fascinating when coupled together, because they depict disconnect in such opposite lights. Where Digital Nightmare is the trials of keeping or breaking connections through the modality of technology and perhaps being forced to do so, The Longest Weekend is one choosing to disconnect, from both technology and people. The phone is turned off, we’re not checking our emails. We’re going out for a drive and then going stargazing, and then we’re making breakfast in the morning. We’ve healed from the digital nightmare. We play acoustic guitar now, haven’t you heard?

TLDR; TWRP doesn’t give any interviews about their process, so I have to extrapolate what’s going on in their heads just by listening to the albums. And what I can tell is that they’re not shying away from exploring more mature themes anymore, and I absolutely adore it.

#warning: long af #TWRP #TWRP band #analysis #*train whistle*

Jumanji (1995) is crazy because everything the evil board game releases is standard movie jungle fare until about halfway through when it creates the most terrifying thing it can think of and it’s another human being.

Like what do you mean the big bad of this film is a Victorian game hunter who is the manifestation of the main character’s childhood trauma?

#I swear if the the script was just a little punched up #we could have had greatness #just the idea of a little kid being alone in the wilderness having to fend for himself not only from wild animals and killer plants #but also a grown man with agun whose sole purpose of existence is to kill him??#and he looks like his dad???#it really is crazy when van pelt shows up #like I cannot stress it enough how despite being in the same movie as mosquitos that cause seizures and poisonous sentient plants #the human villain is the most threatening part #*train whistle*#jumanji

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