memeuplift:

hattersarts:

i made fake screen print t shirt designs that i want so badly

tmmyhug:

feeling this one, calvin

hyperfixii:

… Him

speedpaint version at https://youtu.be/EPLmSAhGkLM

hauntingyourself:

It was snowing the night you crawled out of your grave

ourladyinshadow-deactivated2023:

sorry i’m deranged about characters nobody cares about, do u still think i’m hot

okay but does anyone else think Gault is hot?

toasthaste:

no one slaughter me right now ok I’m so flooded with stress hormones the meat would taste terrible

scifigrl47:

ignescent:

twigstarpikachutroll22:

knowlesian:

honestly i am lowkey obsessed with how terrible we didn’t start the fire is at being a song while also being among the the catchiest songs ever 

this is a song that includes a man screaming CHILDREN OF THALIDOMIDE and then the next lyric is buddy holly, ben hur / space monkey, mafia

it is just one man, listing historical events more or less in order with no context or end and then layering in a chorus so catchy you will BEG YOUR BRAIN to stop thinking about it

i just appreciate that level of aimless, technically skilled chaos for some reason

(via @lytefoot)

The man did an insane amount of work to find meaningful historical events and arrange them in chronological sequence in a way that rhymes, scans correctly, and increases tension at the right places. We didn’t start the fire is poetry in the most literal sense and Billy Joel deserves awards for it.

I actually went to a mini lecture/concert with Billy Joel years ago, after he stopped touring for the most part.  It was mostly him talking to the audience and answering questions and playing music alone on a grand piano.

Someone asked him if he wrote the lyrics or the music first.  He laughed and said, “always music, because when I write the lyrics first-“  He reached out with one hand to the piano keyboard and played the ‘da-da, da-da, da-da-deda-da’ pattern of ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ “It ends up sounding like this.”