STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION // S3E21 Hollow Pursuits When I’m in there, I’m just more comfortable. You don’t know what struggle this has been for me, Commander. Well, I’d like to help if I can. Being afraid, all of the time, of forgetting somebody’s name, not knowing what to do with your hands. I mean, I’m- I am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there’s a party. And then when he finally gets there, he winds up alone in the corner, trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant.
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs performing Fast Car at the Grammys
From the notes:
“so Luke Combs (the dude, country singer) released a cover of it this past year, and it became a hit. He didn’t change the pronouns either. So a white guy covering a black woman’s song, it becoming a hit and actually giving her the credit is nice. B/c of the song’s popularity it won Song of the Year at the Country Music Awards. That award goes to the songwriter, Tracy, the first Black queer woman to win.”
He didn’t change the pronouns or the gendered words which refer to the singer. He sings, “I work at the market as a checkout girl,” which gives the entire thing a deep “closeted transmasc” vibe that I love so much.
There was a lot of fuss when the song first came out and then Chapman spoke up and said, essentially, “I really like this version, actually, and it’s making me an awful lot of money, which is nice, so please leave him alone.”
I think it’s also important to note that at one point, the camera cuts to Brandi Carlisle, a lesbian folk singer, who is holding on to her wife. I’m quite sure that was intentional.
(Speaking of watching people who are so happy to be where they are, the way that Brandi can’t stop staring at Joni Mitchell and smiling when they performed together later that night… you can basically see that her entire train of thought is I AM ON STAGE AT THE GRAMMYS WITH JONI MITCHELL!! MY LIFE IS SO COOL!! and that’s pretty fucking great.)
the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura
man people really just say stuff on here huh
Noooo haha don’t spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands
I work in postcolonial USAmerican history (museums in New England, Revolutionary through Victorian) and I constantly find myself correcting tourists who say we “don’t have anything as old as in Europe here”
they don’t usually mean anything by it; they’re just not thinking and often get a bit embarrassed when I gently say “nothing EUROPEAN that’s that old.” but I will keep saying it until I run out of breath, if necessary
(also some pueblos are still occupied! Acoma Pueblo has been continuously occupied for 2000 years! which is incredibly cool!)
admittedly my understanding of las vegas may be a bit distorted by only seeing it in movies and also when people complain about it online, but it seems that it’s some kind of city-sized torture device where the spectre of advertising is ritualistically summoned into an orb in the middle of a very hot desert and then it attacks everyone living there all of the time while they gamble to keep their mind off it
doesn’t seem like a real place is all. seems a little heavy handed.
just clicked around on google street view for a minute and had to close it because I saw a parking lot so large it started to bend over the horizon and touched both sides of the panorama
The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.
This gets me more excited than anything smart refrigerators can offer. I want to learn refrigerator repair just so I can buy one and maintain it for all eternity.
I understand completely why people thought you could survive a nuclear blast in one of these things
this is tumblr so there’s gotta be at least one asshole in the notes being like, “oh, you idiots don’t know about the modern fridge that does this? everyone knows about the modern fridge that does this” but unfortunately i have probably blocked that guy. someone who hasn’t blocked that guy please find the fridge he’s talking about so i can buy it
