#this house

[detectgrim]

oh we BUILDIN' tonite bois

[yonderghostshistories]

Guys, should I check out the tv series “The Crown” ?

I heard it’s pretty good (despite its flaws ofc lol, and I mean it is technically a historical dramatisation of real life events, like ofc historical events have to be dramatised for storytelling purposes lol, but I digress)

But…..the thing is….I’m anti-monarchy (as in, I do not give a SINGLE fuck about the Royal Family, and I say this as a British person myself btw, like honestly the Royal Family can DO ONE 🖕🖕🖕)

Buuuuuuuutttttt-

1)) The series was created by Peter Morgan (who also wrote the “Michael Sheen as Tony Blair” film trilogy, which includes the films; “The Deal” (2003), “The Queen” (2006), and “The Special Relationship” (2010), and I absolutely LOVE Michael Sheen and I’ve been meaning to check out the trilogy soon!)

2)) Charles Edwards is in it. No notes. (I love Charles Edwards)

3)) To expand on my last point, almost EVERY. SINGLE. BRITISH. ACTOR. AND. ACTRESS. IS. IN. THIS. BLOODY. SERIES.

4)) British Queer Playwright James Graham (who also wrote the plays “This House” and “Best of Enemies” (both also starring Charlie Edwards) among other plays, as well as writing the film “Coalition” (2015), among other stuff too) also wrote for an episode of the show too, sooo…….

5)) Jonny Lee Miller……as John Major. No further notes. (HE’S ACTUALLY SO HOT AS JOHN MAJOR WHAT THE ACTUAL FU-) (also apparently THERES A SPITTING IMAGE REFERENCE IN THE SHOW???)

6)) the British comedy revue Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller) is in an episode of the show, which is very cool :D!! (as a fan of British Comedy, I am pleased to hear that they have a cameo in this series ☺️☺️❤️❤️)

7)) Bertie Carvel……as Tony Blair (honestly he looks aLOT like Tony Blair frfr, perfect casting there 💯💯. Plus Bertie Carvel honestly looks a lot more like Tony Blair than he does look like Nick Clegg in “Coalition” (2015) lmao 🤣)

Soo….mhmmmm…..I *might* possibly check out this series maybe?

idk really lol, but do let me know your thoughts on this people!!

That is all. That is the post.

[dustedmagazine]

This House — Soft Rains Will Come (Pink Cotton Candy/Ramble/Red Wig)

The basic elements of This House’s sound will be familiar to anyone who followed G.W. Sok’s career before. A furious clangor of box-y drums, barbed wire guitar play and hoarse, poetic shouted lyrics all point towards the Ex, the long-running art-punk band that Sok left in 2008. His partner, Ignacio Córdoba, adds electronics here, in line with his own work, but the music mostly lurches and spasms with fierce, rhythmic punk intelligence. A couple of shadowy interludes — acoustic “Introduction to Poetry” and the ominous title track — hint at a less frenetic iteration of This House, but mostly these cut rattle with whip-sharp, multi-layered rhythms. Every element, not just drums, builds a beat architecture, jittery, not-quite comfortable setting for the songs.

This full-length follows an initial collaboration, Is this a House, between the punk frontman and the free jazz/electronics experimenter. But the first outing was looser and less song-oriented, full of spoken word and improvisatory flurries. Now with an expanded ensemble, including Søren Høj on drums and P.J. Fossum on synthesizers, these are no longer just arty collages, but rather kinetic sound sculptures that just happen to rock out.

Take “Shoelaces,” with pulses with suppressed fury, a rapid thump of kick drum doing battle with a sawed off guitar. The pace isn’t quick, but it’s packed with sensation, bursts of noise firing off in the milliseconds between drum beats. “Out in the Westlands” is less explosive but more insinuating. It veers vertiginously amid syncopations of high-hat and snare, its guitar a woozy rope-guide though complicated percussive patterns.

Sok is a writer, not just of songs but of books, so perhaps it makes sense to spend some time on the lyrics, which are novelistic. “Man Joke,” for instance, piles dreary details from a miserable man’s life on top of each other, the morning coffee and cigarette, the walk through the rain, and all the time returns to his inability to communicate with his partner. It’s plainly stated, but moving, as the furious thud of kick drum rumbles under dead-eyed observations. Notice how the last line pulls you up here: “He lit up a cigarette and he made circles with smoke/he put the ashes near the ashtray/the man became a joke.”

This is quite a good record, certainly of interest to fans of the Ex but also, more broadly, to anyone with a weakness for smart, disciplined post-punk.

Jennifer Kelly

[loveridden1999]

in my girllose girlcry girlhelp me i am dying era

[hellyescharlesedwards]

2 minutes 35 seconds of Charles Edwards as Jack Weatherill in This House (2013) at the National Theatre.

[lyricalquotesofsong]

TW FOR BLOOD AND SELF HARM, SPOILERS FOR INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SEASON 2

And did you ever even love her?

Or was it rooted in companionship

and timing?

Well I'm not the one, I was then

My life was folded up in half

I guess I owe it to the timing of companions

I survived the year at all

At all, at all

[sleepynegress]

So, here's some history for #2 in the desert video throwbacks.

This was the singing version of Zendaya of the 90's yall.

This is Tracie Spencer, the one Black girl among the white pop song girlies back in the day, like Debbie Gibson.