Snowflake Challenge: Day 14

Challenge #14

Try something new. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

It's been a looong time since I wrote a manifesto. ( Here's one for why I'm so into Good Omens: Season 2. )

TL;DR: Exceeded expectations, have already watched again.

( And for bonus content, another new thing I've tried. )

これで以上です。

Snowflake Challenge: Day 16

Challenge #13

Make a rec list of fanworks! Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So I decided to do something a little different for this and post 10 of my favorite fanworks by musical artists of or about other artists, books, TV shows, or movies.

Beck - Rollins Power Sauce and Ozzy
These two tracks are off of Stereopathetic Soulmanure, a Beck album many people probably don't even know exists. He recorded it in 1994 and it's wonderful and possibly the weirdest thing he's ever done. I love how these tracks simultaneously tease and pay homage to their subjects.

Bloodhound Gang - Your Only Friends Are Make Believe
Bloodhound Gang is snotty and crude and probably not for everyone (including, sometimes, me), but I do love this winking send-up of Mr. Rogers set to the music from Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf. (Caveat: This is the official music video but I have no idea what's actually in it, so viewer beware.)

Grimes - Geidi Primes
Back before Grimes was *blech* Elon's baby mama she was a musical genius recording solo albums in her bedroom. Geidi Primes was the first, it's heavily inspired by Dune, and it is a phenomenal piece of music even if you don't know anything about the subject material. "Feyd Rautha Dark Heart" (starting at 12:52) is the best Siouxsie and the Banshees track not actually written by Siouxsie and the Banshees and "Shadout Mapes" (starting at 24:15) is one of the creepiest, most atmospheric, wonderful things I've ever heard.

Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Basically, it's Spawn. And it's excellent.

Pillows - Kim Deal
I have probably listened to this love song to Kim Deal and her songwriting more than any other track on earth. It's simultaneously a Pillows song and a Breeders song, and the lyrics are wonderful both in terms of the words themselves and the artistry of the vowel rhyming that's going on. I freaking love this song.

Presidents of the United States of America - Mach 5
Being an ode to, if not Speed Racer itself, the excitement and joy of being a little kid and watching the Speed Racer opening title. This track is off of PUSA's second album; did you know they recorded at least four other albums after that?

Rasputina - Sweet Sister Temperance
Melora Creager is so talented; no one can create a pre-1850 American gothic mood like her. This song is an homage to Emily Dickinson, and sort of encapsulates what I love about both Rasputina and that poet.

Toadies - Polly Jean
This is so, so obviously a love song to P.J. Harvey and I love it. (And P.J. And Toadies.)

これで以上です。