The second salient feature of power pop, along with its avowed status as a kind of fandom, is that it is happy music—eminently “poppy”—which depends for its power on the cryptic presence, in a lyric or a chord change or a bit of upside-down vocal harmony, of sadness, yearning, even despair. This strand of pop darkness can be found right off the bat, in the founding documents of the genre, like The Who’s “Pictures of Lily,” in whose final stanza the song’s narrator discovers that his pinup dream girl has “been dead since 1929,” or The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” where the sadness and yearning are smuggled into the melody, the harmonies, the lyrics, and even the title, which marks the broken place, the gap between the wish and the world. True power pop is rueful and celebratory at the same time, glorifying desire and frustration, which is why so many power-pop songs concern themselves with the subject of Tonight, or Tomorrow Night, or Saturday Night, or some other night that will only be perfect for as long as it can be deferred. Depression stalks the genre. … All the clouds of power pop are worn inside out to show the silver lining.
Michael Chabon, “Tragic Magic: Reflections on Power Pop”
Anthropomorphism which is the recognition of human-like characteristics or form in animals, plants or non-living things. This tree, which can be found in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, has roots which have taken a human-like form.
just now realizing that the cold snap of 1846-1847 not only got the franklin expedition stuck in the ice but ALSO was the very same cold that got the donner party snowed in…
I started working on this crossover idea about 6 months ago, but… well, life happened. I’m glad it’s finally done, I had lots of fun working on it, and it’s been a while since I drew and had fun. Please don’t think too hard about heights/proportions; they’re a bit like the Muppets
[id: Full colour image of Crowley and Aziraphale from Good Omens, drawn as mice in the style of Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective. /end id]
Heard a very ripped and beefy male-bodied person in the hallway of the library today say “no bro I work out so I can carry my future husband around, duh.” And I think that’s very neat of them.
