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[388] the game he plays he plays for keeps, hustlin' times and ghetto streets
Successfully navigated the weekend and a very fine family visit. Spent lots of time with my grandmother and her sisters without getting horribly burnt out, spent lots of time happily melting in what were surely our last few 30-degree days of the year (time to pack up the lounger), spent a lot of time watching TV on the couch with my mother, who was very happy to get the drain from her surgery taken out today.
Preemptively gathering up the courage to ask my boss for aNOTHER day off my next work set to take my mom to Edmonton for her follow-up with the surgeon next Tuesday. She's definitely going to need radiation this time around, and I really don't know how we're going to swing it.
Caught a matinee of Blink Twice, which I found genuinely quite harrowing. Shame about the title.
Popping painkillers and bleeding a whole lot.
Dropped my ROH, NJPW and Stardom subscriptions to go with TNA sunsetting their YouTube Insiders tier. Simply can no longer justify single-promotion subs in this economy, I will just have to pirate anything that isn't on Wrestle Universe/Triller+/IWTV until such time as I win the lottery. Qbittorrent's utter inability to upload shit means I'll have to stick to the monthly freeleech packs for Stardom, though.
There's a power outage planned for pretty much all day tomorrow, and I don't know what I'm going to do?? It's supposed to be rainy, so I can't even nap the day away outside??? Why couldn't they have waited one more damn day!
Made it to A Voice in the Dark for the ZR community run today, so I will be deep in my Sam Yao feelings overnight. That's, like, the season 1 episode.
Wikipedia Sez: Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" (number 2 R&B charts, number 4 Pop charts) and the title track (number 5 R&B, number 8 Pop). Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied.
including the second paragraph here for a change, because it's real wild that I pulled these albums back to back!
Super Fly, along with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971), was one of the pioneering soul concept albums, with its then-unique socially aware lyrics about poverty and drug abuse making the album stand out. The film and the soundtrack may be perceived as dissonant, since the film holds rather ambiguous views on drug dealers, whereas Curtis Mayfield's position is far more critical. Like What's Going On, the album was a surprise hit that record executives felt had little chance at significant sales. Due to its success, Mayfield was tapped for several film soundtracks over the course of the decade.
Genre: R&B, Stage & Screen
Styles: Blaxploitation, Chicago Soul, Funk, Soul, Soundtracks, Smooth Soul, Uptown Soul
Release Date: July 11th, 1972
Prior Familiarity: I know a few of the tracks (I'm your pusherman!!!), but the actual movie has been on my to watch list forever.
What I Did While Listening: Made Bagel Bites. Ate Bagel Bites.
Verdict: This absolutely rips and made me desperately wish there was more film music on this list.
Favourite Song: Eddie You Should Know Better
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Preemptively gathering up the courage to ask my boss for aNOTHER day off my next work set to take my mom to Edmonton for her follow-up with the surgeon next Tuesday. She's definitely going to need radiation this time around, and I really don't know how we're going to swing it.
Caught a matinee of Blink Twice, which I found genuinely quite harrowing. Shame about the title.
Popping painkillers and bleeding a whole lot.
Dropped my ROH, NJPW and Stardom subscriptions to go with TNA sunsetting their YouTube Insiders tier. Simply can no longer justify single-promotion subs in this economy, I will just have to pirate anything that isn't on Wrestle Universe/Triller+/IWTV until such time as I win the lottery. Qbittorrent's utter inability to upload shit means I'll have to stick to the monthly freeleech packs for Stardom, though.
There's a power outage planned for pretty much all day tomorrow, and I don't know what I'm going to do?? It's supposed to be rainy, so I can't even nap the day away outside??? Why couldn't they have waited one more damn day!
Made it to A Voice in the Dark for the ZR community run today, so I will be deep in my Sam Yao feelings overnight. That's, like, the season 1 episode.
Wikipedia Sez: Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" (number 2 R&B charts, number 4 Pop charts) and the title track (number 5 R&B, number 8 Pop). Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied.
including the second paragraph here for a change, because it's real wild that I pulled these albums back to back!
Super Fly, along with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971), was one of the pioneering soul concept albums, with its then-unique socially aware lyrics about poverty and drug abuse making the album stand out. The film and the soundtrack may be perceived as dissonant, since the film holds rather ambiguous views on drug dealers, whereas Curtis Mayfield's position is far more critical. Like What's Going On, the album was a surprise hit that record executives felt had little chance at significant sales. Due to its success, Mayfield was tapped for several film soundtracks over the course of the decade.
Genre: R&B, Stage & Screen
Styles: Blaxploitation, Chicago Soul, Funk, Soul, Soundtracks, Smooth Soul, Uptown Soul
Release Date: July 11th, 1972
Prior Familiarity: I know a few of the tracks (I'm your pusherman!!!), but the actual movie has been on my to watch list forever.
What I Did While Listening: Made Bagel Bites. Ate Bagel Bites.
Verdict: This absolutely rips and made me desperately wish there was more film music on this list.
Favourite Song: Eddie You Should Know Better
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐