My boyfriend ordered pizza for us and I asked them if they would draw me a dragon. I’m very happy that they did it this time!

Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future

Alternatively: I went through periods of depression so frequent and intense that I never considered that I’d actually make it to my 20s so now I’m kinda just making it up as I go

It gets even weirder when you hit 30.

Literally no one who follows me is going to know what this means, but HBomberguy, a Youtuber known for Video Essays about pop culture and gaming made a promise that he would live stream himself playing Donkey Kong 64, in its entirety (including picking up every single banana) and all money would go to a UK charity for trans youth (Mermaids) and his initial goal was $3,000 and now it’s been 26 hours into the stream and he’s already over $51k. I just need people to know about this https://m.twitch.tv/hbomberguy

Also, he’s doing it to spite Graham Lineman, a transphobic prick who did some work in some good shows, and helped get Mermaids’ funding by the National Lottery suspended, so because of his temper tantrum, as of the writing of this reblog, he’s raised almost $130k!

i joined and everyone’s talking about OllyTube’s cum what happened

Some other highlights:

-The game keeps breaking up from the seams because the emulator just BARELY can handle the game’s code hacks. The chat has to constantly remind him to save the game in case it crashes entirely.

- Harris took 6 hours off camera to sleep and in the meantime the chat devolved into shitposting about feet and teeth (or FEETH).

- Meanwhile on twitter: Glinneham is throwing a pissy transphobic tantrum on twitter due to the stream while #ThanksGraham has started trending in Europe, U.S. and Australia. 

-Insane amount of guest streamers including Chelsea Manning, Jim Sterling, Ollie Thorn and the game’s composer and DK’s voice actor, Grant Kirkhope

- Kirkhope saying TRANS RIGHTS in his DK voice.

someone’s taking notes

Selfie post

Literally no one who follows me is going to know what this means, but HBomberguy, a Youtuber known for Video Essays about pop culture and gaming made a promise that he would live stream himself playing Donkey Kong 64, in its entirety (including picking up every single banana) and all money would go to a UK charity for trans youth (Mermaids) and his initial goal was $3,000 and now it’s been 26 hours into the stream and he’s already over $51k. I just need people to know about this https://m.twitch.tv/hbomberguy

ah, yes,,, my 3 alignments,,,,

That ducking HEADBOB at the end he KNEW what he did

“Free When You Call From Work” The story of Dial-A-Song by They Might Be Giants

The liner notes from Dial-A-Song: 20 years of They Might Be Giants

 Before there were modems-and back when the function of the pound key on a touch tone phone was entirely a mystery-we here at They Might Be Giants started a simple but enticing service on a home phone line with a home phone machine that would inform and often eclipse the rest of our band’s output. The idea for Dial-A-Song, which started receiving calls in 1984, was born out of initial phone machine fad of the early 80’s in New York City where the devices first came into common use. Still in service today at 718 387-6962, it receives calls continuously and from around the world. It is played by DJs over the air, and receptionist on speakerphones as a daily escape from their inner-office hell. It flaunts a notion that still boggles the minds of many in the music industry: give something away and folks might come back to buy some more. It has given a very small musical project an immeasurable amount of notoriety, and connected us to an audience that is surprisingly accepting of our most extreme impulses.

            Although we had worked in bands with standard lineups, we were also part of an early generation of home-tapers, a trend that has later been dubbed lo-fi. Armed with a  TEAC four-track tape recorder, a Moog synthesizer and the very earliest of drum machines, we found a kind of creative freedom in home recording that seemed unobtainable in live band. Inspired by the full range of studio-oriented work of San Francisco’s The Residents, and self-deputized by the D.I.Y. spirit of the New Wave- we formed the band around our recordings- making elaborate demos, and playing shows with tape recorded accompaniment as a substitute for a live rhythm section. The idea of placing our homemade recording on a phone machine was an idea we had casually kicked around from the moment the devices started showing up in electronics stores

            We started performing in the summer of 1982, and had moved slowly up the local band ladder at a number of downtown clubs through ‘83. Over the course of a year we built up a small but tangible following, but then in quick succession a couple of random events knocked the band off the performance calendar: Linnell broke his wrist in a bike accident and would be in a cast for three months, and Flansburgh had his new apartment thoroughly burglarized on his first day there, with the thieves literally taking out his life’s possessions in the boxes that had just been brought in. They only left Flansburgh’s four-track TEAC tape recorder behind, presumably because it was too ponderous to carry out the window.

            While Flansburgh found a new, safer, apartment, performing was still out of the question for the immediate future. The idea of Dial-A-Song seemed less far-fetched as it became our only vehicle to generate continued interest in the band. We bought a machine, and started placing ads in the back of the Village Voice, and the calls started coming in immediately. The local press, already tuned in to the very public expression of Keith Haring and the downtown art scene, also started taking notice, and our real career as a band began.

            Dial-A-Song has had some unexpected and long term influences on our song-writing style and gave us some basic insight into our audience. First off, if a caller didn’t like the song, or just simply found it too long, they hung up. We could hear the machines prematurely rewinding whenever a caller didn’t make it to the end. Almost immediately we found ourselves moving away from the layering of tracks that had our four-track set up had offered us, and toward more vocally-oriented songs with simple, graphic accompaniment. We also found long sustained notes, and almost any instrumental solo, would be falsely perceived as the end beep, and reset the machine. Again, the machine was calling the shots, and writing songs with tighter arrangements-and no long notes- became imperative.

            While the set up for has changed a bit over the years-from reliable but crude Record-A-Call phone machines to sophisticated but highly erratic computer-based systems and then back-a lot about Dial-A-Song hasn’t changed at all. It’s still just a regular call to Brooklyn. It still only takes one call at a time.  Waves of calls burn out the machines-sometimes knocking them out for days-and then weeks go by when it’s relatively quiet.

            Almost every track on the Dial-A-Song box set started its life on Dial-A-Song. The biggest challenge to They Might Be Giants as a musical project was clear to us before we even started: this thing needed a lot of songs. We had to write a lot more, because Dial-A-Song is always hungry for new songs, no matter how insignificant or misguided.  It helped us become less precious and a lot more prolific, and it reminded us of the simple charms of melody.

rito oc drawn 4 @ga-keaton

america’s system of government is basically “well we assumed a president wouldn’t do this”

abuse of power should come as no surprise

others: “so, how ~southern~ are you?”

me: “The entrance of my hometown has a shrimp boat sitting in the main street. At Christmas theres a shrimper Santa and alligators pulling him instead of reindeer.”

others: “what?!”

me:

Cajun Santa, bring me the gumbo and buckets of mud bugs

@aerokiinesis

Terry Crews truly is the only good man on the planet.