Manifest Monday

The girlhood spectrum will be the death of me

listening to music isn’t enough anymore i need to eat it

Anything by Pomme is a banger.

Angèle is iconic, she is from Belgium but she is very successful in France

Ascendant Vierge is very nice on the dubstep/ tech side of music

Glauque, another band from Belgium but they're aesthetic is OMFG

Gargantua if you like techno is amazing

Mansfield TYA amazing, lyrical with a particular but great atmosphere

Barbara, a little bit more ancient but she is an absolute queen with the voice of an angel and piano skills goddess-like

Do you have any recommendations for french music? I've listened a bit to artists like Zaz and Indila, but it's always nice to get more music recommendations!

As I’m not someone who listen to a lot of musics (I’m gonna circle between two songs and that’s enough for me), I went and asked my friend Epinard (WHO HAS A SOUNDCLOUD AND DOES GOOD SHIT)!! and he and few friends (+I slidded some of what I listen) gave me the following (bear in mind that a lot of us haven’t listen to modern french musics so a lot of these are nostalgia based):

JUSTICE - Fire

Népal - Sundance

Daniel Balavoine - S.O.S d’un terrien en détresse

Stacey Kent - La saison des pluies

Coeur De Pirate - Comme des enfants

STROMAE - Tous les mêmes

Côme - La gloire à mes genoux

Mozart l’Opéra Rock - Le bien qui fait mal

MIKA - Boum boum boum

Igorrr - Tout Petit Moineau

Stupeflip - Stupeflip Vite

Cécil Corbel - Entendez-vous

Hippocampe fou - Aquatrip

Fatal Bazooka - J’aime trop ton boule

Madame Kay - Je t’aime

Taku Iwasaki & IGOR - L'ambition mélodique

Diam’s - La Boulette

Zaho - C’est chelou

Eskemo ft. Jena Lee - Ensemble

BB Brunes - Dis-moi

OrelSan - Paradis (+ Défaite de famille )

Silver - MISS YOU!!

Renan Luce - Les Voisines

Damien Saez - Jeune et Con

Thomas Dutronc - Demain!

My friends are so dumb I love them so so much

my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

ctommy checking his phone on november 28th

In highschool I wrote a story about a middle-generation of stellar travelers. Their parents were born on earth and left as children, and the middle generation will not live long enough to see their destination. They live their entire lives on the ship and I wrote about them trying to find their place in everything. They will never know blue skies and warm beaches and open fields with warm breezes. They’ll never know birdsong or crickets or frogs. They’ll never hear the rain on the roof of a dreary day. I never could find the right way to end the story. I wanted it to be a happy ending, but I didn’t know how to do it.

I realize now that it was a book about me dealing with depression before I even knew it. Looking back at how blatant the projecting was, it’s obvious now. It wasn’t then.

In the story, the middle-generation people are lost. They’re apathetic. They’re just a placeholder. The only job they have is to keep the ship running, have kids, and die. As the middle generation of people began becoming adults, suicide rates were skyrocketing. Crime and drug rates were jumping. This generation was completely apathetic because they felt that they had no use.

In the story, a small group of people in the middle-generation create the Weather Project. They turn the ship into a terrarium. They make magnificent gardens and take the DNA of animals they took with them and recreate them and they make this cold, metal spaceship that they have to live their entire lives on into a home. They take what little they have and they break it and rearrange it into something beautiful. They take this radical idea and turn the ship into a wonderful jungle of trees and birds and sunshine.

And I realize now how much it reflects my state of mind as I transitioned from a child into an adult while dealing with depression. You always hear “it gets better” and “when you’re older things will be easier” and I was so sick of waiting for it to get better. I was in the middle-generation stage. And I was sick of it. I was so sick of waiting.

When I was in highschool I didn’t know how to end the story. I didn’t know how to have a happy ending. I didn’t have the life experience then to finish the story in a meaningful way. I didn’t know how to make it better for these middle-generation characters.

But now that I’m older, I’m learning. That if you sit and wait for things to get better, it never will. You have to take your life and break it apart and rearrange it into something beautiful. You have to make the cold metal ship into the garden that you deserve. You have to make your own meaning. You have to plant your own garden.

You have to teach yourself that being happy is not a radical idea.

I think humans should be socially allowed to have a jumpy/crazy time like some pets have. We would definitely benefit from having a time to jump and dance ourselves off everyday

that would be reaaally funny though 

Edgar Allan Poe: Sitcom where people gradually get killed off and their spot in the opening title theme is replaced with dead silence.

Lenore: I’d like to question your definition of sitcom.

Reading the book is not enough. I need to eat it.