Hello, internet. Here are five things that I usually find uplifting (I plan on posting five more every Monday, and for now probably posting something more--personal? I think?--every Thursday. So come back on Thursday please.) Before I list them off, I would like to also add that I have a rather warped sense of humor and rather less delicate sensibilities than some people. You might not actually find all of what I post uplifting (in fact, in some cases you may even find it disturbing or triggering.) That said, my tastes aren't that unusual, so I'm sure there are plenty of people who will enjoy what I decide to point at.
The Hunger was
released in 1983, based off the novel by Whitley Strieber. It's about
an immortal vampire named Miriam and the people (two in particular)
she chooses as her forever-young consorts. Or at least, that's what
she tells them when she turns them. I have only seen this film once,
but it managed to hold my attention the whole time without me
wondering when it would be over, which is more than I can say for
most films I watch. Aside from being interesting, it also has David
Bowie, Bauhaus, and Susan Sarandon in it.
Nude
is the second album released by The Irrepressibles. Instead of trying
to explain what they sound like (words can be great for making one
want to listen to something, but I think rarely do a good job
actually describing music), I'll just say that when I first heard
"New World", I actually felt the need to drop everything I
was doing, close my eyes, and just listen. Which happens to me almost
never. And then the same happened when I got my claws on the whole
album. Another thing I admire about Jamie McDermott's (lead
vocalist/composer/guitarist) songs, especially on this album, is the
rawness of the emotion they convey while still sounding clean and
without overexaggerating.
Khaos Komix
was written and drawn by Tab Kimpton, and completed at the end of
last year. He has a playfully snarky sense of humor and a strong
talent for developing relatable, loveable characters and then putting
them through emotional hell (things usually turn out okay in the end,
but still.) It's also fun to see his own development both as an
artist and as a writer as the series goes on (he started writing the
series in his teens).
Music video: "The Lovecats"
by The Cure
It's full of cats and Robert Smith. No
further explanation necessary.
City: Liverpool
I'm not sure why I liked Liverpool so
much. There isn't anything specific there that really grabs me
(though the Tate is nice, and the Strawberry Field gates are cool
even if they've been replaced with replicas). It just felt familiar
and comfortable to me as soon as I stepped out of the train station
even though I'd never been there in my life or even researched it
much, and continued to feel oddly homelike for the couple days I
stayed there. It's also just kinda pretty in an urban sort of way.
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