𝙜𝙖𝙥 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙚

☆ +18 blog. I'm a full on adult.

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4. What's your all time favorite Djo song?

Oh my god that's hard!! Though I've had moments with lots of songs of his, I'm gonna pick Gap Tooth Smile.

I just think this song is so human, the whole imagining a whole ass person to love and giving them mundane traits thing is so human, so universal. I think all of us have done it, be it in times of hardship and loneliness or just because. You imagine a lover or a best friend or whatever, just someone, and you yearn for what they could make you feel. Imagination is such a fantastic thing! I'm a sucker for upbeat songs. While I love my sad or slow playlists, lighting up when I hear upbeat music is my favorite feeling ever. Of course I don't always wanna feel upbeat. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood, leave me alone, but when I am... Swoosh!!!

I light up listening to Gap Tooth. The way it was built really speaks up to me, the cheerful groove is so nice, the guitar has this Beatles-esque thing going on, it's so fun to listen and sing along.

Also "anything's cool if it's done with heart" became one of my biggest life mottos. Pour your heart into things and it'll be worth it, always.

there she is... gap tooth smile–

6. What's your favorite slow Djo song?

I usually have a hard time choosing things, but for this it's gotta be Potion. This song is so special and important to me. The lyrics, oh man, it's such a beautiful reflection on life and love "I, I, I, I might find love / I'm looking for it on an alphabet soup cup / I'm looking under my thumb / it's looking like a little rain cloud loves me" like. Oh my god. Love is in the smallest things if you just look at them with attention.

Also I have some little memories tied to it: last year I took a trip to my grandparents little farm in may and The Crux was pretty much the only thing I was listening to. It was so nice. I might be a city girl, but I lived there with them for a while in my teens for family reasons and I fell in love with that farm and that life in a way I never expected, so it was great to go there and relive a little bit of it. My grandparents have been married for 68 years (it's insane to think about that, really) and I know a lot of couples from their time don't have really happy stories, even if they stay together for long. Hell, my parents marriage was an absolute clusterfuck lmao But those two... They love each other so much. They refer to each other using terms of endearment, they do what the other can't do anymore (he learned how to cook–and to make all her favorite recipes that she invented herself so it's all in her mind–when she started getting low vision, she started tending to his garden when he got joint issues and couldn't reach the plants properly anymore, for example).

They leave on the light for each other, always. (sometimes quite literally. Low vision can require a lot of lights lol) During this trip I'd listen to the song a thousand times and just drink that place and their love for each other and for me as if it was a potion. ❤️

A few pics I took of the farm when I was there:

5. What's your favorite upbeat Djo song?

That's a tough one! Besides gap tooth I think I'll go with Mr. Mountebank, Flash Mountain or Link. Or maybe Purgatory Silverstar. (As a meme I saw once: choose one?? I'm bisexual and bilingual, I can't choose!!)

Ok, I'll stay with Mr. Mountebank for obvious reasons. This song pumps me up so much, it's upbeat in that angry way that just feels cathartic sometimes. The melody and the lyrics are so in your face, I just love it. Gets me everytime.

And what can I say? When Djo said "washed out glory hole, piss pot feeling like a jelly roll"... I felt that.

Oooh, thank you!!!! You're so sweet 🥹

3. What's your favorite Djo album?

I am absolutely insane about The Crux. I'm pretty sure it is one of my favorite albums in all the towns in all the world, not only because it means a lot to me, it has themes that I can relate to so much, but because the whole proccess of it is so fucking fantastic. From the first time I heard it I felt that it was an album made with a lot of love and fun.