LOTMS; “The Future”

Inflated porcupine fish, Living Monsters, Linda Gamlin 1978

things i needed to hear (as conversation hearts)

Hayley Williams on the lyrics of “Simmer”:

“A while ago I went to this cranial sacral masseuse. I was laying on her table and I started having these weirdly creepy visions of flowers growing out of me. And not in a kind of beautiful way, it was kind of painful and very grotesque. But I kinda realized in that moment that there was a lot that was trying to grow out of me but it was gonna hurt to do it.

And I think for me it’s somewhat of a mantra to try to stay soft in a really really hard world. And feel pain and feel everything, like let all of it come to you and try to put out something that can redeem it all, even if it’s ugly at first.

The lyric is “wrap yourself in petals for armor” because I kept feeling like the way for me to protect myself best is to be vulnerable and be okay with having a lot of pain at certain times and also feeling a lot of joy at certain times. As long as I’m staying soft to those things and I’m open to letting those things in and out of me. Then I can actually survive the world a lot easier than if I stay hard and stay with my fists up all the time.“

paramore - tell me how

panic! at the disco - turn off the lights

Gerard: “Well, I remember first seeing Pencey Prep, and it was in this bar - and I think there were like three people there… There was like nobody there, but I remember watching and basically Pencey Prep played this show like it was full of people. And I remember just feeling like, “Wow, this dude is a great singer and he’s a great guitar player, but he’s a born performer. This is somebody that is totally meant to be onstage.”

Frank: “…Awww.”

Microsorium pappei, Growing Ferns, Ray Best, 1980

In this pandemic times...

Don't be like the husbands touchxtouch:

Be like Sam:

According to a non-scientific test done by Mythbusters back in 2010, sneezing into your elbow can effectively prevent the fluids from spreading, whereas you could still sneeze through a tissue or hanky and end up with gunk all over your hands.

Take care, wash hands, social distance and don't panic, you know the drill ✨