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Roger Waters with his Onion Bagger shirt on! 1975 š¤
When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen ā¦
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Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didnāt just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.
People in the 1800s would've gone apeshit over this in the concert halls
Reblogging to watch later...
I think this guy just invented shredding on a piano
"Why is the song called that" "Oh, that's why"
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Life goal: Be as happy as 60s Roger Waters on a carousel.
life reality: be as uncomfortable as Syd Barrett on a carousel with no horses.
changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by ānatureās revengeā; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, āthe unknown.ā Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying āI would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.ā But I donāt know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.
I donāt actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.
Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you canāt look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Donāt Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.
No idea if this is anything. (I havenāt seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.
But the thing Iām thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think theyāll have a little sympathy, but they probably wonāt. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, werenāt you?
I'm like one hour from going to bed so my take is not going to be extensive but my guess is that the social anxiety this is reflecting is the surveillance state. And the fact that private companies (i.e. not just the state) are also doing a ton of surveillance. And even the fact that the way we often use social media -- less so Tumblr, which has some anonymity still -- is basically internalising that surveillance and performing for it at all times.
It seems like there are two modes going on here: "avoid being perceived by the horror" (Bird Box, A Quiet Place etc) and "perform correctly so that the horror can't get you" (your trashy nun example). Both of them arise from surveillance logics; one is "avoid being surveilled or it will Get you", the other is "you are being surveilled, perform correctly or it will Get you".
And with regard to the social elements it's all reflecting, I mean -- have you seen the state of things? It's extremely difficult to avoid being surveilled! A monster where you have to not look at it is fucking easy mode by comparison!
(Pretend I cited Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman; they're relevant but also it's bedtime.)
Ooh yes, and breaking it down like this made me think:
- fear of observation (surveillance state)
- fear of not performing correctly (purity culture and evangelical backlashes)
- fear of confronting existential threat (climate change)
my contribution to this extremely salient and clever discussion is to say: I think we should call this subgenre panopticonsequence horror
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I think there might be an additional element here- the fear of awareness, because if you observe something, you'll end up seeing something you don't want to. like, we live in a society where we have more access to information than ever before, and also where the supply chain of things we have no real choice but to use exploits so many people, damages so much environment, and generally relies on a wide variety of harms to get into our hands in a way we can afford. i live in a society where it's more or less generally accepted that slavery and child labour is bad, but I would say it would be a minor miracle if I haven't touched something today that used at least one of those, you know? and the thread goes beyond that in a lot of fun ways- like, who hasn't been a fan of an artist and then found out they were doing horrible things behind the scenes? hell, most people live in countries with governments that are doing awful things to people every day.
it's the narcissist cookbook's cognitive dissonance blues. it's chidi anagonye's almond milk. being aware of the state of the world is to be in some level of despair at both the situation and the fact that you kind of need to be complicit in it for anyone with half a conscience. and there's nothing any of us, as individuals or in most sizes of group people are able to amass, can really do about it because so much of this evil is baked into the way the world works at this point. everyone has a vague knowledge that the world around them can't exist without destroying people and planet, and you'll know a lot more than you ever wanted to about it if you do a few web searches, and then what? you'll stop wearing clothes, eating food, or using technology? you'll switch to ethical options that cost money you don't have and have a decent chance of maybe the closest link in the supply chain being less harmful but don't look all the way down? like, it's notable that in a lot of these movies, not looking at the thing doesn't make it go away- it just means it doesn't get YOU.
Reblogging for this last addition especially. My tax dollars are going to harm and kill innocent people at home and abroad. I may donate to a charity that wouldnāt have to exist if my tax dollars *werenāt* doing harm. I need to generate income so that I can live. This income will be taxed.
Perhaps in some horror movie in the near future, peopleās bodies will be possessed and forced to do violent crimes or harm their loved ones or themselves, all while the person is aware of what their body is doing and unable to stop it.
Something Bad Will Happen If You Acknowledge It seems like horror based on *guilt*, not being-a-prey-animal. A prey animal is always alert for danger, but a guilty person struggles to look their victim in the eye.
Roger & French
Interviewer: And now weāll finish in French. Do you have any commentary on the political situation in France?
Roger: An alligator makes love with my suitcase.
Roger Waters backstage, 1975
kids these days dont understand projecting your middle school anger due to being an outcast into vitriolic hate of justin bieber
ppl adding on about how justin bieber is actually a terrible person this is about drama between 11 year olds in like 2009. we didn't know a single thing about the guy. your opinions were solely based on whether you were part of the 90% of teenagers who would cry if justin bieber jumped off a building or you were the 10% who would sit back with popcorn and yell "do a backflip".

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