You and I Belong To The Stars

spotify wrapped is HERE! send me a number 1-100 and i'll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist!

The Biden administration has come out strongly against the forceful seizure and occupation of buildings. In other news:

This is the takeover the Biden admin is referring to. Understandable that the Biden admin opposes commemorating a murdered six year old considering they refuse to even acknowledged that Israel is responsible for it.

'speak for yourself op' says someone on my post in which I only use 'I' statements.

no one talks about how devestating jon being called “the archive” rather than the archivist was. you aren’t even a conscious being anymore, you are nothing but a vessel used to cause the end of the world. what the fuck.

You have to admire her audacity, if nothing else.

Literally my favourite thing about Rogue One is that it makes the opening of New Hope so funny. Like, Vader has followed Leia from a planet he just blew up seconds ago and pursued her across the galaxy and then she’s just like: ‘I’m on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan’

Vader: You’re a rebel. I just had a fight with your entire rebel fleet and followed you here. Straight from the rebels. Of which you are a part

Leia: *dramatic gasp* rebel? Me???  I was just passing through. Diplomatically. Thought it was a five-space-ship pile-up or something going on there… 

death star plans? on my alderaanian diplomatic mission? it’s more likely than you think

ok but this is like legitimate Canon Improvement because I’d always wondered why Vader was so wildly furious at the start of the movie like “rahhhhh bring me the passengers I WANT THEM ALIVE!!!!” and now I’m like

ohh yeah okay they literally JUST blew up Vader’s base, stole his sh!t, and took off while giving him the finger from the window

IT GOT BETTER

It is the best thing ever because it establishes that he knows she’s a Rebel and she knows he knows she’s a Rebel and he knows she knows he knows she’s a Rebel and—here’s the kicker—every moment she stalls him is another moment Artoo has to get the plans off the ship and head for Kenobi, and so she’s standing there all “Rebellion? What Rebellion? Me? *kicks dead Stormtrooper underneath carpet* I don’t know about any plans, have you checked behind the sofa?” and making Darth Vader’s blood pressure rise, and, oh, the best part of it is that she’s his daughter so guess where she got that sass from, like every fucking dead blue Force Ghost Jedi who got killed at the birth of the Empire is whooping and cheering from the Blue Force Ghost Afterlife seeing Anakin Skywalker get inflicted with everything they had to deal with from him.

You just know that enough people’s dying thoughts were, “I hope you have one just like you,” for the force to go, “this bitch deserves twins.”

It got better.

the phrase ‘this is my first time being alive’ has done wonders for me recently. Yeah, I don’t know how to navigate this situation! It’s brand new to me and I’m learning on the fly, aren’t humans such wonderfully adaptive creatures?

Why can’t we just leave, stop the game, without doing all this...stuff?

americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip

i went to england to visit the family of this boy im dating in birmingham. one of his sisters lived in manchester and his whole family kept being like we wish lila was here you would love her blah blah blah lila would just love you blah and I was finally like well why couldn’t she make it? everyone was like lol as we said she’s in manchester??? that’s it. i looked up the distance and it’s like less than two hours away and when me and my dude went to grab a beer later that night I was like so does Lila not get along with your parents like what’s up? again, he’s like babe I told you she’s in manchester. I was like are the villages at war????? he goes “it’s too far. this isn’t holiday.” I was like babe we’ve drivin 4-5 hours for weekend trips to the beach Im just confused- and he cuts me off and goes “that’s American me. We don’t do that here”

two old guys who have like a weird gay thing going on is the best

theres a difference between being gay and having a weird gay thing going on. its complicated

worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil

I wonder how many people realize that we wouldn't have most of the genres of electronic music we have today without black people, and what it says about that when you consider how much various electronic musical disciplines are more often associated with white people.

If it weren't for funk, jazz, soul, disco, dub, dancehall, and more, we wouldn't have house, techno, drum and bass, UK garage, even most forms of industrial dance music.

If you've ever enjoyed a song by Machine Girl you are morally obligated to listen to the entirety of Maggot Brain by Funkadelic

op you're right but also

I've been getting a lot of responses like this and at this point I find it kind of annoying and borderline infantalizing? Like yes, black music was stolen and commodified countless times over and is the bedrock of almost all modern genres of music. I'm a black musician. I'm intimately aware of this.

The reason I focused on electronic music specifically is because no one ever talks about it. The theft of rock n' roll is softened by celebrated legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Slash and Little Richard, and the visibility of the story in general. Hip-hop's story of capitalist exploitation of poor black men and enforcement of toxic standards of masculinity and white appropriation is softened by hip-hop made by black people being a culturally dominating force for the last 30+ years, and a concentrated effort by black artists to use the genre to platform black artists and issues first. Ska getting gentrified into ska punk is softened by ska punk sucking ass in comparison. Electronic music does not get the same redemption story.

Quick, without using Google, can you name a black electronic music artist? Do you know who Juan Atkins is? Phuture? Mr Fingers? When you think of acid, do you think of black people in the clubs of Chicago or white english people at raves in London? When you think of jungle, do you think about the African and Carribean diaspora in the United Kingdom drawing on dub and dancehall tradition to make some of the most futuristic sounding music in history, or do you think of white people recycling the same beats over and over again set to PS1-style cover art?

House music, the closest living relative to disco, which was a black genre of music MURDERED by reactionary white rock music fans, is more associated with two fucking white dudes from France than ANY black person in the minds of most people.

Do you know the name of the man who played the Amen break?

I'm not mad at you in particular, I'm just frustrated. The totality of black suffering can be overwhelming, yes, but it shouldn't sweep over the specifics when black people want to focus on them. Let me be pissed off about Daft Punk making more money than Frankie Knuckles ever did, please.

Actually y'know what? I'm using this opportunity to plug my shit. Listen to this song, I'm still really proud of it.

Shannon Funchess - she's worked with The Knife; back in the day she was with Clan of Xymox & TV on the Radio - foundational in the earlier days and as this show demonstrates, still pushing the boundaries & ignoring convention. Light Asylum is the perfect name for this joint, rage is exploding there but it enfolds, and welcomes, there's no terror or uncertainty, there's war but it's sacred somehow

love Shannon Funchess

I MET SHANNON FUNCHESS IN PERSON AND SHE GAVE ME A PIN AND A CUSTOM PATCH SHE MADE!!!!! I've been listening to Light Asylum since high school you have no idea how delighted I am to hear her mentioned in public 🖤🖤🖤

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Bravo, Onion...back in top form.

Those are mushroom socks 🍄

finally made myself a mug

the quote's from @marypsue

girl who wont shut up about how she "loves a man in uniform" but as she keeps talking it becomes clear she's talking about butches in customer service jobs