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Simon Interviews Samlrc

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Samlrc is a brazilian musician, visual artist, filmmaker and more. She recently released her album "A Lonely Sinner", changing her sound entirely from electronic shenanigans to majestic and grandiose post-rock. Yesterday I interviewed her, which you can check out right below, as well as a link to her newest album on bandcamp!   SIMON : hey Sam!! thank you for accepting the interview! how are you feeling tonight? SAMLRC : been overwhelmed but im just chillin rn :3 good night SIMON : good to hear that :D SIMON : so, going straight to the first question, what music are you listening to recently? SAMLRC : hmm been diving into some trip hop groups like massive attack and some QOTSA albums, very glad i gave them a chance its so peak SIMON : i love massive attack!! never listened to QOTSA though, but i might give them a chance too SAMLRC : quite hard for me to recommend something from them but i love Like Clockwork more, very good mix of emotional and angsty rock tracks,

two tragic tales

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Ami Suzuki was a big deal. in the late 90s, she achieved platinum with her debut album SA and delivered big hits that rivaled the likes of Ayumi Hamasaki and Hikaru Utada. alone in my room and BE TOGETHER are still sang by fans to this day. she could have continued this success, but, legal troubles put a stop to that. she lost her popularity in 2000 after leaving her label. and yes, that's what you'll find out by reading her wikipedia article. but that's not what this post is about. in the 22nd of august of 2007, Ami Suzuki released a song produced by the god of electropop himself, Yasutaka Nakata, aka Perfume's fourth member. that song was called FREE FREE. in the music video, Suzuki wears a scampy dress and dances around with a strong and impossible to ignore erotic tone. this change in image was shocking, not because of its prudeness, but because it was really fucking cool, and unpredictable. if you weren't a Suzuki believer before that, you are now. you now un

cave story and me (about december 20th 2004)

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 today is my birthday. around five in the morning, after i woke up, a friend said we should play club penguin together. i felt like i was seven again. i remembered my tenth birthday, in which some classmates came to my house and we played club penguin. we watched scary videos and it was fun.  at noon, i had lunch with my parents. my dad had told me before we left home that he was going to take me to the bank, to create an account to me, which he would deposit money. i remembered july 2020, during the best two weeks of my life, when i was at my dad's house in the city he lives in. he took me to see a place, a lot. he had bought this lot with the intention of building a little cottage, and my sister bought the lot right aside that. he said, "when i die, this lot will be yours. this will be my inheritance to you". anyone who doesn't know my dad would think this is amazing, which is exactly what i thought. my dad to this day has no idea how amazed i felt right then, given