show madness!

 hey club members!

i have been so insanely exhausted. this is for a couple reasons. Last week was tiring because it was my last week of classes. so i had a ton of exams and projects and nothing interesting to really say because I was so mentally burnt out. I was also dealing with some friendship stuff with some of my closest friends so I was emotionally exhausted also.

Last week was equally tiring i am afraid. this is because I was organizing and practicing for a show that I was hosting at the end of the week! my band severly overworked ourselves. we practiced for hours on wednesday through friday morning. my bandmate even slept over thursday night so we could finish the song we were writing for the next day. meanwhile the friendship stuff was still kind of lingering on my mind. 

The most stressful day was friday. Organizing and hosting this show was so intense. I will not be doing it for a while. And after all that chaos, i had to be ready to play while also sweaty and delirious from lack of sleep. those 5 minutes before I performed were actually hell. 

In the end, the show was a success. I am so proud of my band and myself for putting all that together. the only part I am unsatisfied with is how I forgot all the lyrics to the song we stayed up all night writing. I would say it was all in vain, but it really wasn't. I will not elaborate.

i will probably write something longer about this show. there are some details about a 7/11 and a pool that i want to include. but im still processing and i am still tired. so just wait.

I would post pictures from the show but i unfortunately took ZERO because I was too busy with everything else. and I will not post pictures of my band quite yet because I don't think I want my face on here right now. also I don't want to post someone else's pictures. so just trust me that it happened, ok?

on another note, I finally told someone about this blog. like 30 minutes ago. she was very understanding. I did not give her the link.

i still feel like I need to attach something to this post, so here's a snippet of the chorus we wrote

i wanted to believe

that we would make it to the summer

i couldn't be deceived

if only we were a little bit dumber

its not too bad for being written in a night

(walkman + pastel sketch from last week)

(might post the finished sketch another time)

(#bring back walkmans)

on an entirely different note just because I am still awake and writing (12:57am), what book should I read next? i loved Pandora's Jar but it took a while to get through because it was nonfiction. i feel like I need something very fast paced and summery and maybe with romance subplot or fantasy elements? i am trying to not buy any more books so here are a few contenders I already own:

- Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

- Stardust by Neil Gaiman

- Severance by Ling Ma

tomorrow I will decide as it is now 1:05 and I need to stop this.

challengers = life

I can't believe this post is so late. I apologize profusely. 

The theme of this week is tennis.

I have a lot to say but I am so exhausted from strumming a guitar very hard all day so I'll just drop some shots and come back or else I will certainly forget.

I have a lot of other pics/art/music I want to share also but not right now. I'll update this post soon

doodle appreciation

 

I drew this in literature class today and I felt like sharing

More to come to this post but i am not in the headspace for it right now. Take these for now

Ok I'm right now. Here are more doodles from my schoolwork <3

It's always the tests I do bad on that have the dumbest doodles. I wonder if there is some correlation there. Instead of drawing this bug I should have been looking over my Greek paper.

Should I get into painting? What if I painted this doodle?

I love drawing snakes I realized. I like to label them as snakes as well. I like how the middle snake says Snake Is Observed. The top snake probably ate a cardboard box and that's why it's shaped like that. The bottom snake looks like it's part of a political campaign.

Would it be robotics club without a robot? This summer I plan to build a robot. For now I will just draw them on my math homework.

passion pit: love letter to synthy electropop

 

saw Passion Pit. they were awesome

when i was against the barricade, waiting for what felt like a millennia for Michael Angelakos, i looked at my fellow passion pit enjoyers and realized i was the youngest person there. has the age of Passion Pit really washed over us already? the kids are losing culture!

bring back weird and startling songs like sleepyhead. bring back LCD Soundsystem and Santigold and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. this is my love letter to indie sleaze and synthtronica and electropop.

these songs make you feel like a kid playing Little Big Planet, but also a 20-something year old at a house party wearing tube socks. they are so nostalgic yet so futuristic. they are trashy yet lavish. for me, they are reminiscent of walking by the highway on a sunny day, with wired earbuds in ears and sporting a striped shirt. they inspire screaming, they inspire holding, they inspire collapsing on the floor and they inspire getting up.

truly this era was a new movement of music. it took 80s synthpop and 60's rock and added a bunch of clutter to it. the sleaze quickly picked up electroclash, leading to acts like The Knife, Peaches, and Ladytron. i would sell my soul for just one night in Toronto or New York in 2008.

lately it feels like these types of songs are a dying art. my favorite indie sleaze revival act is The Dare, who should be blasted in all clubs in all cities in my opinion. there was an indie sleaze attempt on tiktok last winter, onset by Saltburn (2023), but like all things on tiktok it happened shortly and then it was swiped away.

personally, I will be having an sleazed up synthcore electroclash indietronica summer. I will be streaming Sleigh Bells, The Naked and Famous (forgotten too soon but that tangent is for another time), M.I.A, Black Kids, The Strokes, Bloc Party, and of course, Passion Pit.

(here's more pics i took bc it was the best night ever)

(sotw is The Reeling because its my favorite Passion Pit song AND the first song they played)

p.s. this is basically a photography blog but it was supposed to be a music blog. new music is in the works but nothing solo right now. if only I could make some electropop to put on here.