I Have Covid And Am Bored, Let's Play The Ask Game!

I have covid and am bored, let's play the ask game!

QUESTIONS ABOUT MUSIC

1. Do you listen to music everyday? 2. One band you always come back to? 3.  What is/are your favorite song(s) atm? 4. What’s your Spotify? 5. Top 3 played songs? 6. Three favorite genres of music? 7. Favorite album(s) of all time? 8. Favorite quote or song lyrics? 9. Favorite concert you’ve attended? 10. Most underrated musician in your opinion 11. When did you last dance on your own like an idiot? 12. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day? 13. Name four or more flawless albums? 14. Have you met any of your favorite bands/artist? 15. When was your first concert? 16. Do you choose particular albums depending on the mood? 17. What song do you listen to everyday? 18. Who is your favourite artist right now? 19. A song you like with a color in the title? 20. A song you like with a number in the title? 21. A song that needs to play loud? 22. Songs that describe you/your life? 23. A song by an artist with a voice that you love? 24. A song/songs that make you sad? 25. A song that relaxes you? 26. Songs you can relate to? 27. A song that has many meanings to you? 28. Put your music app on shuffle.. what is the 1sty song? 29. What is your favourite music video right now? 30. A song from your favourite band?

My hobbies include perfume making and I have THOUGHTS on this excellent sleuthing on Miles's perfume.

Fleur de Peau is peppery on top, with ambrette musk (seed musk instead of animal musk like ambergris or another traditional ingredient) + iris/rose middle notes (think chanel no 5) - so a less sweet floral, dries down to the musk/woodsy base. This is a unisex perfume, strong, and cool.

INTERESTINGLY Diptyque also makes a perfume that Alex wore in the past, Ombre Dans L'eau. Ignore the other makeup in the picture below. Per Alexa Chung: "My ex-boyfriend introduced me to Diptyque fragrances. He used to wear this one and I was always knicking it."

Ombre Dans L'eau is not unisex. It's feminine: fruity like blackcurrants, sparkling with grapefruit, green wood, dries to a sweet woodsy floral. Think crushed roses, green leaves, ripe berries. I've posted about this before, but I wear this perfume.

I wonder if the brand came to Alex from Miles or vice versa. Either way, those are some nice-smelling lads.

Last night I spent searching for this fucking fragrance

And I'm 80% sure found it.

So, we're sure about the brand and the type of fragrance.

This is Eau de parfum by Diptyque. (This is actually important because as I was told, eau de toilette and eau de parfum actually smell different). The perfume water has a special glass. It is made of glass with darkened edges, exactly the same as the one we see in the video.

and now my favorite part, the tables! So, the perfume waters catalog contains 18 fragrances. I made a table describing the external characteristics of the flacons and tried to compare them with what we see. Also we see the label from the back side and by the white spots we can determine what kind of fragrance it is.

So, the contenders from 18 candidates

Tam Dao

Fleur de Peau

Do Son 

Philosykos

Eau de Minthé

and now we'll just put the pictures on top of each other until we get a match. and here is it

FLEUR DE PEAU.

the first 5 screenshots, I was sure that Tam Dao was more suitable there, but after few more attempts the only one, which suited at every picture was this.

I don't claim to be right, but it's been a while since anything fun has happened. Let's at least look for some perfume.

Looks like another of Alex Turner's costumes touring during The Car Era.

Dressing as Alain Delon playing the Talented Mr. Tom Ripley is an apt choice:

alain delon during the filming of purple noon/plein soleil

(1960)

On seeing Pulp's 555th show

I spent Friday the 13th 2024 at the enormous, ornate Kings Theater in Brooklyn, worshipping at the altar of Pulp. Miraculously, I was super close, center left stage, 3 people deep from the boundary rail. The crowd was not as engaged as Chicago, and the fans nowhere near as chatty. But to be eye-contact close to Jarvis Cocker? SWOON-WORTHY.

The set has been pretty similar across the tour, but I got two happy surprises. One was incorporating OU into the set! My original copy of Pulp Intro on vinyl (in all its 1993 glory including a fanclub postcard) is one of my favorite possessions. OU is a really fun pre His n Hers track. And honestly getting that + Razzmatazz + Like a Friend hit my sweet spot.

Second surprise was the debut of another new song, Got to Have Love. I didn't try to record it because my phone sucks and I wanted to be in the moment. It was good, and moreover it was fun to see the band working through new things. Being close to the stage allowed me to see how the core band members interact. It was a joy to see Mark, Candida, Nick, and Jarvis playing off each other. The additional touring members really added a lot to the sound. You could tell that everyone on stage wanted to be there and was having fun. I'm looking forward to listening to the other new tracks, but between this and Spike Island I'm hopeful we have a new album and more touring on the way.

The performance was electric, and seeing Jarvis dancing and commanding the room in all his awkward, graceful, sleazy, seductive glory was everything. He may be 61 years old today, but he hasn't lost a beat. I got actual chills during Hardcore. He murdered that song. Britpop = dead (not that Pulp ever was Britpop to me, as a fan who found the band later and grew up in a part of the US that barely heard Blur on the radio!)

This video isn't great quality, but please enjoy this snippet of I Spy. It gives you a sense of how Jarvis interacts with the crowd and how dangerous Pulp feels compared to its peers. It was magical.

hey, i'm sorry to hear you have covid. i hope you feel better soon! here are some music asks for you. take good care ✨🌹

16. Do you choose particular albums depending on the mood?

19. A song you like with a color in the title?

20. A song you like with a number in the title?

21. A song that needs to play loud?

Thank you for the asks! It's been a fun way to spend covid Sunday, and I love reading everyone's responses to their ask box too. 💖

16. Yes to picking albums based on the mood! I don't know if anyone else here ever read Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, but it's an amazing comic about how music is magic and I 100% agree with that. (Kieron is a writer/dj and posts his writing playlists on Spotify and I cannot recommend them highly enough!)

I love album listening, and got a turntable a few years back because it keeps me from diving into other tracks like I do on Spotify (and sounds better!) I love a playlist, but albums are how I really get to know an artist, and figure out how to use their magic to help me feel my way through (or around) any mood. Message me a mood and I will send you an album. 😁

19. There so many! I picked red last time, so let's go with green. My queer heart loves Arlo Parks:

20. I picked a Lucinda Williams 2 Kool to Be 4-gotten last time, so my heart only has one other obvious choice: Alex and Miles, shyly gazing at each other on stage, playing 505. Like my heart can barely handle them.

21. Please turn up the volume for JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS! Do I play this when I'm mad about work? hells yes. 💥

Preparing for spooky season with some Darkplace and gotta say, this is not the worst writing advice.

Tho our narrator is untrustworthy

Some good sex scene writing tips in here!