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A Last Summer Hoorah: Vogue, Music, the September Issue, Met Galas, Adulting & Extraterrestrials · Salon Gazette

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Bienvenue au salon hosted by Sarah Maria.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's me.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Last salon, I started the episode with saying that it's officially the beginning of the end of summer.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: And while that's still true, I want to start this episode by saying that it is the last hurrah of summer.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: Technically, summer doesn't end or fall doesn't begin until September 21st.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: So I know it's only like a couple days.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Not even what's today?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Today's the 8th.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like barely two weeks.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like almost two weeks, basically two weeks.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, there's a lot that can happen in two weeks.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot you can fit in two weeks, actually.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: As I've found out.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've known this.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: But today I was really productive and I got kind of some big things done.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: So feeling very productive.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's the last summer hurrah.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: So squeeze any last of your doable summer bucket lists in there.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Doable.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Emphasis on doable.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, you guys, I'm honestly feeling a little bit melancholy because of the change already.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, it's been very gloomy here, non-stop, kind of.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: And we've also had little sunny days here and there, but it's been really gloomy, and obviously the temperature is already changing, like it's getting colder and colder, and I'm fine with that in theory.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: I really am.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: But I hate the way that I wake up every day and I feel my energy is lower, and kind of just this melancholy that I don't want to feel, and it's really too bad.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: I was just thinking of this yesterday, but I miss the energy of spring, you guys.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: I was brainstorming for this episode, and I was thinking about my playlist for June and July, specifically my Gemini and Cancer playlist, because that's what I call them.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just looking at the artwork that I put for like the playlist cover and just the kind of songs.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was just making me nostalgic a little bit for only a couple months ago.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I just got flooded with the feelings that I was feeling at the beginning of spring, and I was feeling so like there was just such newness in the air and like incoming excitement and all of that, and that sense of renewal.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just getting sad because I'm like not not seriously, seriously sad, just a little melancholy, but it makes sense, you know, because spring and fall are opposites, and so I'm thinking about how in the spring I was feeling just coming, I'm coming back to life, the sense of renewal, the sense of excitement for what's to come.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, with the opposite of that, with fall, it's a sense of things ending, coming to a close, um, things being taken away from you, whether you like it or not, kind of uh intensifying of the emotional world, and honestly, logically, like I say to myself all the time, I am fine with that, I'm okay with that.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually looking forward to that.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: But then my emotions, they say something else, and so it's really annoying sometimes when like your subconscious, which impacts your emotions, doesn't really catch up to what you're logically aware of.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's really annoying.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been dealing with a little bit of melancholy, and just not to mention that I kind of have a hard time with fall, you guys.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's still kind of too soon for healing.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: By that, I mean I think I mentioned um two episodes ago that this is like the first time since being in the United States for like 16 years, or not the first time, this year and last year were the first times that I genuinely found myself looking forward to fall in the winter time, just because of hibernation season, cozy season, thinking of everything, honestly, just a whole seasonal shift.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: But with that, it's only been the last two years, but like the decade and change before that, fall and winter have always been like a really hard time for me, and it's kind of annoying, honestly.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like things I noticed that as soon as we get into September, you guys, as soon as we get into September, things start speeding up and intensifying, and I mean that like emotionally, like my inner world.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know, maybe dark themes in my life, crises, like all these things come to a head or they start intensifying right around this time.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: And literally for the past two weeks, I've already been dealing with things becoming more intense and dealing with intensifying emotions from certain people that are close in my life.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm wondering if that's because obviously, as the season changes, like we're all affected by seasonal change, whether we are aware of it or not, and I think the people that I'm around they're not aware of it, but it is impacting them emotionally, and they're kind of taking it out on the people around them, and it's kind of annoying because I mean it is what it is.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: I've come to accept it, like whatever, that's just how these people are, and I don't like get too close, but obviously they're important to me, so I have to have some level of proximity to them, and so when their emotions just kind of are unregulated or they're feeling some type of way because the seasonal the seasonal change is impacting them, it affects me.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I've been kind of triggered.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, here we go again.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, really, I was looking forward to this, and I still am.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not giving up or anything, but I'm just like getting a little triggered and remembering on a very visceral level what this time of year usually has felt like.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: I just become so aware of problems and that sense of lack and anxiety and that sense of like all is not well.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just wondering.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: I wonder if this is something that's happening to people collectively.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, are you guys struggling?
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Or am I the only crazy one?
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: And by that, I don't want you guys to be struggling, but I just wanna I just want to know.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: I know it seasonal change affects everyone, and so I wonder what that looks like, but I I don't understand why that means that all the intense, kind of dark, real-world, like harsh reality things come to a head around this time, and I don't know what it is about September.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Not only does September 1st the the weather changes immediately, but immediately things start speeding up in my life.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever force is putting that gas pedal on my life right now, I need it to slow down and to stop.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I just become so aware of my earthly limitations, and it feels like it just feels like a time always, it has always since moving to this country, has always felt like a time of psychological and emotional warfare.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have to like do a deep dive about this because there must be some way to just take myself away from this energy and like vanquish it out of my life because I don't appreciate it, and it is no longer welcomed in my life, and I'm tired of being afraid of the yin seasons because of past traumas.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I want to get into the false spirit and get into the cozy spirit and start hibernating and and burrowing and all of that, and I love all that kind of stuff the idea of hibernation and burrowing and and going within and doing more internal work.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's just I could really, really, really, really do without without without the harsh reality things and all of the intensities, and I think it's the people that I'm around, you guys.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: And on that note, I'm just gonna stop right there because I don't want to expose anybody or badmouth anybody in the salon.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm just feeling like I need to really deep dive in on this, and whatever demon is circling me when so dramatic, right?
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever demon is circling me, as soon as fall and winter hits, I rebuke and I want it vanquished from me because I'm sick and tired of it.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sick and tired of this being the recurring narrative every year.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: I have to fight tooth and nail to get positives out of this season.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like I refuse to believe that you have like a sea a time of the year where everything just seems happy and fast-paced and vivacious, and then the later half of the year is just misery and darkness and intensity and harsh realities and all of that.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: I refuse.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: I refuse it.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like doing affirmations with you guys right now, seriously.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: This is a salon for affirmations, alright?
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, you guys.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: I guess just take advantage of this last summer hurrah.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Any last doable things that you wanted to fit on your summer bucket list?
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now is the time because we are still in Virgo season, and Virgo, yes, it is a mutable sign, but it is a summer sign, so that doesn't end until September 21st.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Only like barely two weeks.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, get on that.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm also talking to myself because I am pushing myself to get on that and just do some last-minute initiations and activities, that kind of stuff.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: But I was thinking about this actually, this whole idea I told you guys of like spring and how much I miss the energy of renewal and just light, light energy.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: It just felt light and vivacious and like exciting, like I was looking forward to this season and just what's to come.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking about that, I told you guys because of my music playlist, my Gemini and Cancer playlist, and I was wondering if I should just share with you guys, just kind of like as a form of closure to myself.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I have my Gemini Cancer playlist right now, and I just wanted to close out the season and reminisce kind of.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, by the way, if you guys I'm not even sure if it's possible.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think you can follow people on Apple Music, but I love Apple Music, A, because that's what I've been using like ever since I got a phone.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: My first phone was an iPhone, and I've always used Apple Music, so I'm just like kind of hooked on it.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of people, most people it seems like use um Spotify, which I'm fine with, but I don't know.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like the learning curve, and I'm wondering if it gives me as much like creative freedom as Apple Music does, like I can design certain things, customize certain things, and I really like that.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: But I was saying that just to say that um if you guys want to follow me on Apple Music and kind of stay in touch with what I'm listening to, and I love I love the little artworks that I make for my playlist for my playlist covers.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: I know it's such a small thing, but it's just the little things that you romanticize and you add a little bit of whimsy in there, it kind of makes you look forward to engage with that content.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: So that was me every time I would click on this playlist.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: I would just get like a a little rush of feel-good energy because I really like the cover.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Or if you guys are enable, because I'm wondering if I'm private on Apple Music and that's how I like it.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: I wonder if people can request to follow you, kind of like social media, and you can accept them.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: But if that's not the case, because I don't plan on becoming public, just because I don't like gatekeeping, but I also like gatekeeping at the same time, you know.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: I like sharing, but I also don't like sharing everything, especially something as personal as my music.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, I I didn't make it, I know that sounds ridiculous, but there are certain things I think everyone can relate to this.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: There are certain things in life that you're kind of protective and and um possessive about, and sometimes that can be my creative process and my creative outlets, like music or Pinterest, that kind of stuff.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: So if that's not the case, then I think what I'll do if you guys follow, and if you don't, go ahead and follow the Salon Gazette Instagram page, because I do post different kinds of content on there just to you know stay in touch with the aesthetics and the vibes of the salon, and yeah, I want I want some kind of I think I'm rambling at this point, but I was just gonna say I want some kind of community where we can actually talk and like come together and just plan things and so for now, even though it's not developed as much as I want it to be, but you know, consistency and just give it time.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, follow the Salon Gazette Instagram page.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I think what I'm gonna do is I'm maybe just gonna post my cover art for those playlists for the Gemini Cancer as well as Leo Virgo.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking about maybe sharing the Leo Virgo playlist as well, but I'm not fully done with it because Virgo season is not done.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: We're not in Libra season yet, and I'm still refining that playlist and kind of getting through everything.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I'm gonna end it's gonna make this episode really long.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I'm just gonna save that for another salon session.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Talk about that another time, but in the meantime, I'll share the Gemini Cancer playlist, and I'll post that on the Instagram page so you guys can take a look at it.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, uh, it's so sick, you guys.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: The cover.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so obsessed with it.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: But mainly the what I was listening to during that time, um, there's three albums.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: Usually I on my playlist I do a mix of albums and singles, and obviously, like some of the the ones that I didn't like, uh, whatever track or song I didn't like, I deleted it off the playlist because I'm not gonna force myself to listen to something just because it's part of an album that I really like.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: So the three albums were This Music May Contain Hope by Ray.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Ugh, love that.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: What is Ayanakamoa's album called?
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, the artist is Ayanakamoa.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: She's a I think she's from Senegal or Mali.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's either from Senegal or from Mali, but she grew up, she like moved to France, so that's kind of her background.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, the album is called Destine, which means destined, I think, or destiny.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Destinée, destined.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, love that one.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: And last one, this is another thing I'm I'm like reluctant to share because I'm like, I part of me wants to gatekeep this artist so much, but no, I don't want to be, I don't want to be that kind of girl.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think I'm just gonna share it and just put it out there.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but Sasha Kebel, you guys, don't say I never put you on, don't say I've never put you on to an artist.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, she's my latest obsession, and I was listening to so she released a new album this year, but before that, there's an album I've had on my to listen playlist for such a long time, and I love her so much that I didn't want to miss anything that she created or released.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I listened to this album, or I think it's an EP actually.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, it's an album.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's an album, it's not an EP, but it's called Intermission, and it's by Sasha Keble, and she's from the UK.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: I I think she's mixed with something else, but I think she has a different cultural background, but I'm not sure what it is.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, she's from the UK, and I love her voice so much.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: She's it's so crazy, like it's the best feeling when you just discover an artist and they already become your favorite.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, usually it takes me a while for an artist to become my favorite out of like consistency and just knowing what they knowing their sound and trusting that and knowing what to expect, and time and time again being proven like that.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: Being proven that I consistently and constantly like this artist, then I'll add them to my favorite my favorites list.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: But Sasha Kebel, her voice, her artistry, she's a Pisces, by the way, which makes so much freaking sense because you can just hear her flowing, like it's like water signs when they make music, and obviously all the water signs are different, and you can kind of hear that in their music, but especially like Pisces sometimes, all water signs in general, when they make music, it's like you can feel the music is like flowing out like from their blood or something, like it flows in their veins, and it just uh I don't know if I'm commu communicating this in the proper way, probably not, but she's so amazing, you guys.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: She's like my latest obsession, and she has such like a raunchy and distinct voice.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's what I get attracted to, just people who have very distinct voices who kind of like grab you out of nowhere and just like really like sets that feeling at your core, and you're just like, Who is that?
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, and they just grab you like that.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: I think that has like the biggest impact on me.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I love her, and I will say, Oh my goodness, I loved all three albums, and there's as I said, like also a couple singles.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I should share the singles and then I'll talk about the albums.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: But the the singles were so this um honestly they're kind of random, like it was just these two songs by young young Miko, like reggaeton songs, uh Chencho Collione.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: I love him by the way, like he's also one of my favorites, but he doesn't really release albums like that, which is kind of annoying.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm just waiting for his next release, and in the meantime, I guess I'm just being fed by his singles in the meantime, so but yeah, it's called Um Incorregible by Chencho Colone, there's ID by Young Miko, and there's this one called Group Chat, which is by Muiz.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: He's a West African artist, and I really like his sound, but I'm not fully convinced yet, so I'm just like exploring him for now.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: And lastly but not least, this might surprise you guys, but Piercing on My Hand by Northwest, Northwest, like Kim Kardashian's child, a literal child, dude.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think she's 13 or 14 as I'm recording this, so yeah, that's crazy to me.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, in a good way, it's create it's like fascinating to me that how people can just have talent.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, first let me talk about the song.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: I've also listened to like she has an EP out, and you know, she very much sounds like a kid, and then there's like certain songs, they're they're like kind of rare, but I'm not gonna give her slack because literally the girl is 13 years old, she has a lot of room to grow, but there'll be a couple of songs that you can kind of just hear the flow and the quote-unquote genius, like the the artistry, and when it hits, it hits that song piercing on my hand.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I love the she's such Kanye's daughter, like it's really giving that song is giving me the soundtrack, the the I don't know what it's called, like the melody, the the instruments or whatever.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: It sounds like the Kanye that I knew like around the early 2000s.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what's that song called?
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's like in the night.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: I hate the gun called the story told.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure what that that song is called.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: Heartless, I think.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: To a woman's so heartless.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, you guys, to sing to you right now.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you don't mind.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: I hope my voice sounds good.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going back to edit it, so you guys are just gonna have to contend with it for now.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that kind of like sci-fi sound lasers shooting in the background, that intergalactic sound, she has a little bit of that, and it's so fascinating to me.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not a Kanye fan anymore.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not coming down on anyone or judging anybody for it.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: I think I, you know, I mean, even if I am judging, I can keep that to myself and like be personal about it because he has said a lot of problematic stuff.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: I just personally like I don't subscribe and I don't need to subscribe.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, Kanye doesn't need my fandom.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I I was thinking, like, oh my goodness, if she can pick up the The side of Kanye that I resonated with that I think a lot of people resonated with when he was really, really popular like that.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: I know he's still famous and popular, but it's it's not like it used to be.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like he he was like a singular sensational figure, kind of like a I'm not saying they're on the same level, but I feel like everybody loves Michael Jackson.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, of course that's not true.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody loves Michael Jackson, but he's so famous that it feels like everybody likes his music.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's how Kanye used to be.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: Versus now I feel like he's very niche and it's like certain people who like him, and yeah, whatever.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, obviously she's his daughter, so if she has that like stroke of genius that he does as well, and you know, hopefully she has a good head on her shoulders.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm impressed.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm keeping my eye open and willing to give her a chance.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, music is music.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not just gonna judge her.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of people want to judge her and kind of come down on her because she's a kid and she's the um she has famous parents, and so people always have a problem with Neppo babies, and I honestly want to make a whole podcast episode about this, so I'm not gonna ramble about it today, but that's just like so annoying to me.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why do you not like the fact aren't we all people who have kids, don't we all just want to give them?
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have kids by the way, so I don't know why I'm saying we, but I feel like when you hear parents talk, they're always talking about how they want to give their kids the best life possible, and they want to give them everything that they themselves didn't have or struggled to get.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so I don't understand when people get to a point where they can give their kids everything that they wanted when they were kids.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why are we now coming down on those kids for being blessed like that?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yes, we want we all want our kids to be Neppo babies, and not in the way that like everything is handed to them and they don't know the value of like hard work and creating things for themselves, but I don't like yeah, people hate that that certain people have certain privileges because their parents made a better life for them, like, yeah, that that's how it should be.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's what people should want.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: You should want to give your kid a better life, so yeah, I'm not hopping on that train of hating certain people just because they have famous parents, therefore they have access to more resources, like you know, if if at the end of the day, like all that stuff, yes, can give you a head start, but if you don't actually have the artistry, the authenticity, and put in the hard work to create something for yourself, like singular, then all of that's not gonna mean anything because people are gonna see through the bullshit.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm willing to take the music at face value and give it a shot on its own, not based on who's making it and well, I mean, not not like who's making it based on who the person who's making it's parents are.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I think you guys should check out that song actually, Piercing on my hand.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: I really like it.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like the most amazing song I've ever heard, but I was definitely surprised for a 13-year-old that it sounds this good.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, but back to the albums.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I said Sasha Kibel Intermission, Ayana Kamua, Um Destine, and this music may contain hope by Ray.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: And Ray, you guys, Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray, Ray, my baby, my girl.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: No, she's not kidding.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: This music, this album for real, like it's crazy, you guys.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: You reach a certain age when like as your tastes evolve and you learn new things and your emotional spectrum like grows, certain things hit you in a different way, and so certain songs that like maybe I wouldn't have resonated with when I was younger because I I didn't experience as much hardship or haven't lived as much life that it would require for me to understand the how visceral this experience is.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry you guys, I'm just shifting a little bit, so I'm sorry if the audio is like um yeah, I just feel like I'm at an age now where like as my tastes have developed and I can resonate more with more poignant sounds and songs that really talk about like hardships and overcoming, and yeah, and that's a lot of what this album is about.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: I kid you not, there's like three, there's so many songs on there where every time I listen to them I genuinely cry, even though I know what's coming, it's like watching a movie, and you know the scene is about to be sad, you've already cried, it feels like you've already gotten the emotion out, so there's no need for more crying, right?
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: No, every single time, like she has this song.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, these songs on there.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, wait a minute, which one is it?
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, which one is it?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry guys, my accent is trying to jump out right now.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Fields, oh my goodness, Fields, dude, with her granddad, granddad Michael.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: I know you're hurting.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, dude.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like, so many of these songs, genuine tears, like like it's just such it's such a cathartic album, you guys.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: So cathartic.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like when you really it's like the same feeling of when you're watching a movie that really hits you in your feels, and you like sob and you let those emotions out, and you just feel so good after, and it just feels like a cathartic experience.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's what this album has done to me, and it's so funny because you know, you'll see the album cover and you're like, you know, you take it at face value, like, okay, this this music may contain hope, and I have high, high expectations, and you know, but you it really hits me now why she named the album, why she picked the title for that album, like it really does contain hope, and just oh my god, the sobbing.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, check out her album, you guys.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: Seriously, I don't think you guys will be disappointed.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: Ray, like her voice is insane.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: What a soulful, sensual, strong, and resilient, and just uh raw woman, just amazing, and she's only 28, you guys.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: What excuse me?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: 28 so good, so so so so so good.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, so Ayana Kamua, I also like this album.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was kind of like uh obviously, um, for the time frame, it was the beginning of summer.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: I told you guys that I was feeling very lighthearted and kind of exciting and just like uh you know that energy that Gemini tends to give you of just like not taking things too seriously and just kind of frolicking.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what this this album was giving me.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: It was just very lighthearted and feel-good.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's more like a like a dance album, like a lot of music to dance to.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I really liked it.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: It would it wasn't like uh, you know, soul fully profound, but I don't think that was the purpose of the album.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was just you know, her sharing her art and kind of meant to be feel-good and more so RB and a little bit of um, I'm not sure what this is called.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: I call it like a fusion between pop and Afrobeat and RB.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I really like this album.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: Check out Ayana Kamowa, you guys.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: She's her voice is amazing, she's a Taurus queen.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, Ray is a Scorpio, and yeah, that's I feel like that's all I need to say with that voice and all that poignancy and just soulfulness, and yeah, Scorpio baddie, and Aya is a Taurus baddie, and Sasha is a Pisces baddie.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, her album Intermission is amazing.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think there's any songs on any of these albums.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, for this teeny, there's a couple songs that I deleted, but especially for Ray's album, I think there was maybe one track that I deleted, or maybe none, and I think that was only because like she was just like talking, like it was like credits, and she was she has this this track, it's called Finn, which means like end, like like you know, the end, and it's just her thanking her team, and it's like like a credit, and as the music is playing in the background, I couldn't find myself, I couldn't bring myself to delete it because it's so cinematic and just makes me feel good, even though it's not something to sing along to.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I kept it on the playlist actually, but yeah, I think the other one that I deleted, like one other one, was something like that.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, and for Sasha's, I don't think there's any tracks that I deleted, so it's just amazing.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's um Sasha's, I would say, is very mystical, unsurprisingly, with that Pisces energy, and more slower paced, but still very soulful and just really feel good, just hits you in the feels.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I miss Gemini and Cancer.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: This was such a good playlist, you guys.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: Probably one of my favorites out of like this whole series that I've done since what 2022.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, that was my Gemini and Cancer playlist, you guys.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: And as I said, follow the Salon Gazette Instagram page, and I'll post the cover art on there so you guys can get a feel of the aesthetic and the vibe that it was giving me every time I went to click on this album, and even now, as we're literally ending summer, it's it just looking at the cover art gives me so much nostalgia because it's just it's just so good.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, as I said, I'll I'll come back with the Leo Virgo pills once I'm done with that, and once we're out of um the summer season, probably in a couple of weeks.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I'll be back with that, you guys.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: I just didn't want this to get too long.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: This uh salon session, I mean, but kind of hard pivot, you guys.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Not really that hard, but I was I told you guys I was taking notes and putting this the ideas of this session, this salon session together, and I just wanted to talk about how ghetto adulting is like uh I honestly we honestly need to make an episode just talking about how li how hard life is in general because I also I always think about like if I could go back to being younger and being a kid, would I?
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: And my answer is no, because it's like a it's a give and take for both situations.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: There's obviously things that I wish I could go back to when I was a kid, but obviously, like it would mean that I would have to take the whole package and screw that.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: There's no way, there's no way I I would be willing to go back to the darkness of some of the things I experienced when I was in my childhood, and so yeah, we we need to come back and like have a discussion, have a conversation about just life and how difficult it is, whatever stage you're at, honestly, or not, but I was just thinking about adulting and specifically the it feels like to me because I was thinking about fall and fashion and all of that, and a lot of the material that I have to get through, and I just don't have enough time, and I was like, it seems like I never have enough time, you know.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if I start waking up earlier in the day, plan out my week, it's just you never have enough time.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: But then I was thinking, like, is it that I don't have enough time, or it's that we acquire more and more hobbies?
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because as I think about it, like when I was younger, I didn't have any direction in terms of like what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of hobbies I wanted to partake in, and like a certain sense of having a purpose or doing things with purpose, and so you know, I just played, watched TV, and you know, probably had a lot of free time, and so I don't think the thing is that I don't have enough time.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's just we just have more responsibilities and more things that we want to fit into, and of course, because we have well, I have more autonomy now, I I want to do more, and so I think that's what the dilemma is, what the problem is, and yeah, I was just feeling frustrating about frustrated about that, honestly.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just there's so many things, so much material that I have to get through.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: I still need to get through all the the collections for fall 2026 and winter 2027 fashion.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's and like as I'm getting to the material, there's different brands and I'm like, oh wait, I want to also take a look at their collection.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it just keeps see, it it just keeps growing, it just keeps adding.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, oh my goodness, why do I never have enough time?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what is this?
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: I wonder if when I get to a point when I God lord willing that I am financially free, if all of a sudden this this excess time for the things I want to do will appear, or if I will just find different responsibilities to fill it with.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: Probably both, honestly.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: So, do you guys think that?
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do you find that more and more that you don't have time for the things that you want to do, or if you guys are feeling that way, maybe take a look and ask yourself maybe it's because we're all of us just unrealistically adding more and more things to our plate that like there's only 24 hours in a day, we all have the same 24 hours.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, if you have 28 hours worth of workload, like it's not sustainable, right?
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, you let me know what you guys think.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I was just thinking, I was thinking about that because I was thinking about fashion and this this fall, and we are in September, by the way, which means that fashion week is gonna start kicking off sometime soon.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: If not already, honestly, I think it should be kicking off this week or next week.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, I'm talking about like New York Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, London, and Milan.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the main ones.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's other ones like around the world, but those are like the ones that you hear about the most or the most popular, and the ones that really generate the most like noise as well as like money, because I don't know, a lot of the the really popular brands that most people know are based out of one of those four cities, either London, most most of them are out of Paris or Milan, um, and then New York.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, and then there was the the September issue for Vogue.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: I still have to pick up a copy of that actually because that's like that's usually the most important issue.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying important, quote unquote.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's all subjective, obviously, but it's just like in the zeitgeist, that's usually the most important, it's usually the most like like big issue, like they put a lot more material in that one.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, with the new head of I'm not sure what her official title is, but she she took over for Anna Wentor in some capacit in some capacity, which is Chloe Mal, who has been working with her for a while, but she like officially took over.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure what department, like I know what it is, but I don't know what the specific name is, so I don't want to say it in case I'm wrong.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, this is her first issue.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is her first September issue, and I've heard mixed reviews, mixed remarks.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard, well, I've seen the cover, and a lot of people are saying that it's boring and bland, especially for the September issue, which I kind of agree with, but I don't want to give like a final verdict until I've read it all and seen what is like where are the meat and potatoes of the issue, which is like on the inside.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not gonna judge the quote unquote book by its cover, but if we're talking about the cover, it is boring and kind of blah, and I really, really hope that the rest of the issue is not like that.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, but I was thinking about the Met Gala, you guys.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you guys know, but the theme for the 2027 Met Gala was announced and also the exhibit for the the Met Museum.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like the I don't I'm not sure if it's like a museum-wide exhibit or if it's just for the costume department, probably the costume department, because that just would make sense, but it was to be centered around a referendum or memor memorandum.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't sh I'm I don't think memorandum is the right word because I think memorandum is when somebody has died.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas a referendum is just like looking back on somebody's work over the years, but it was centered around John Galliano, who's a famous designer, and it got canceled.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Not the gala itself, but just the whole theme of the exhibit, and there's just a lot of noise around it.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, like I was kind of excited, I was really excited actually, because John Galliano is so talented.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you look at his works and just he's very I know in last the last salon we were I was talking about luxury fashion and how with the price range we should hold these brands to a high standard in terms of inspiration and artistry and all of that.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like John Galliano is definitely an individual who understands that and who delivers that and who lives that like like it's just a part of him.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like he is very much so an artist, and that's reflected in his work.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I was excited because I was like, oh, I like if this is gonna push people, if this is gonna push the whole vibe of the 2027 Met Gala actually to be like high standard and like really coming with the fashion and the inspiration and the artistry, I'm always for that.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I didn't know about all of the kind of controversy centered around him.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: At first, I was kind of like, Oh my goodness, you guys are always making a big deal, people are always making a big deal out of nothing.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: But I think they're right.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people were saying that they think he made I think he stepped down actually, he like removed himself from like even part participating, or like he he he was also played a huge part in kind of getting it cancelled, like he stepped away from it.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, I was I was wondering what was going on, and I did a little bit of research and I heard that it's centered around kind of anti-Semitic comments which he made in the past, and even that at first, I was kind of like, Okay, how long ago was this?
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: Not that it makes it okay, but obviously people can change, and I know this personally because there's things that I remember, like I you know, when you like look back on certain memories or you think about certain memories, you just like cringe, and some of that is just things that I believed when I was like in high school, or certain things that I would say and and like adults, older people would check me on it.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, I was younger, and you know, I was just kind of just like like bullshitting, sorry, but for the profanity, but just talking out of my ass, honestly.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: But talking out of my ass was such conviction, and I've totally changed from some of the things that I believed because I know like things personally now, so I know people can change and be authentically remorseful and and seek to just repair some of the especially like as a public figure, the damage that has caused.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, okay, how long ago did he make these comments and are they like has he been remorseful and has he apologized and has he done like has he done enough I was gonna say repentance, but that's unnecessary, not repentance, but just being remorseful and apologizing and taking responsibility for the harm that and the hurt that he may have caused.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, it was kind of a little while ago, but somebody who was talking about this made a good point.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's not even about wanting to demonize him or not giving him a second chance because of the things that he said in the past, it was more so out of like a just because we're not coming down on somebody's throat, like just because we forgive someone and realize that they've changed, it doesn't mean that we have to give, take an extra step to give them a platform to speak on.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like you can you can genuinely accept someone's apology and and acknowledge that they are doing better and that they're trying to fix their mistake without giving them this huge platform kind of advertising or Endorsing, I don't know, because the Metcala is a big, big, big, big, big deal.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so I kind of understand where this person was coming from.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, especially because of the climate we live in right now, because there's been like a rise in just hateful rhetoric in general, whether it's anti-Semitic, racist, like all these things, in the uh honestly, like global zeitgeist right now.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: So they were just talking about how they want to be very careful about seeming like they're endorsing or kind of sweeping it under the under the rug, or I don't know.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think that this person was just saying, like, they don't think that the Met Gala is the right place.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's not that he doesn't deserve to be celebrated, which I think he does because his work does speak for itself, and he is like genuinely an artist and someone with a lot of talent who inspires a lot of people.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't think they were saying they don't think that the Met Gala is the right platform for that.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: And after listening to their kind of argument, I I kind of understand where they're coming from, and even he himself, like he pulled out of it.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, where I am, I am bummed out for just the artistry that I could see coming and the inspiration and all of that.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, they replace it with something that will deliver the same kind of excitement and sense of making people want to put in a lot of effort because this is someone who kind of demands or commands a lot of just inspiration and genuinely wanting to create art and partake in art.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see what they come up with, we'll see what they announce, and I'll be back here yapping to you guys about it once they do, and that'll give me the perfect time in the meantime to check out the September Vogue issue and just satiate myself with that for now.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's really all I have for quote-unquote fashion news or fashion topic, well, personal fashion news or topic right now.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: But you guys, hard pivot again.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: I watched Disclosure Day like two days ago.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's the movie by Steven Spiel Steven Spielberg.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's um it came out this year, and it's about aliens, extraterrestrial life, interacting with humanity and this earth, and just these people who have kind of been it's this whole thing, like who have been I don't know if the right word is infiltrated because it makes it sound like it's um like a virus or something negative or something kind of to be scared of.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: It is a little eerie, but I think they put a really positive spin on it.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, it was just what a great movie that was, honestly.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_00: It was really good.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_00: Can I just say, like, Emily Emily Blunt is she's the lead actress in it?
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: She is such an amazing actress, you guys.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, she commands like her energy and her aura, and like she's so talented, and she just grabs you whenever she's on the screen, and she just delivers.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's like you're really it's as if I mean that's the job of an actor.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're their job is to make you believe them that they're actually living this experience, and she does it so viscerally.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: She's such a good actress, you guys.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_00: I love Emily Blunt.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_00: I've known this for a while, but now I'm just like, hmm.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: Really, I need to add her to like my favorites list in terms of actors and actresses.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she's she was so good in it, and I don't know what the lead actor's name is, but he's a cutie.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was it was just overall a really good movie, but mainly I I watched it because if you guys don't know, I love astronomy, and I actually wanted I when I was younger, I actually wanted to be an astronaut, and I haven't actually lost that desire, but obviously I just realized like I don't want it to be a career, but if I was offered the opportunity to actually like go out into space, um you best believe I'm taking it.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually just waiting for the opportunity, so but yeah, I love astronomy, you guys, and I love studying our skies and just the planets and just different phenomena, all of that.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I was actually going down a rabbit hole about just black holes and the different planets, and also thinking about extraterrestrial life, you guys.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, there's no way that it doesn't exist, there is no way that there's there's no intelligent species out there in the cosmos somewhere because it's too vast, you guys.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's too vast, and it would just be so arrogant of us and self-centered of us to really think that we're the only beings, and I think it addressed this so well in the movie.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like there was a part where um one of the characters, one one of the women actresses, she was talking to she was talking to this other woman, like who's a nun, and she was just like basically just worried about how this information would affect the world if everybody knew and got proof of extraterrestrial life, like how it would affect people's like societal order, especially people's beliefs in God and everything.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_00: And the nun was just telling her, like, she was like, We are God's supreme being on earth, emphasis on earth, and she was just saying, like, this world is way too vast.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I was studying, I was just learning about this galaxy.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure what it's called, but obviously, we're part we're in the Milky Way galaxy.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's our address on Earth, is the Milky Way galaxy.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_00: But there's like millions, like who knows, endless amount of galaxies out there, and there's this one galaxy, which they say is like the one of the brightest in our skies that scientists can like they can like see it.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's like kind of it's usually hard, I think, to see galaxies or just to like see anything, honestly, out in space, depending obviously on how far it is away from us.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: But there's this galaxy that's like the brightest in our skies because it's massive, massive.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you think of galaxies as just being this swirl of clouds and like all of the planets and the sun and the stars are just in it, this galaxy is like to call it a swirl is like an understatement, it's just like a whole entity of its own.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just thinking, like, let's say we don't know this, but let's let's let's apply our galaxy's logic to the rest of the cosmos, which I know is flawed because we don't know anything, and like, yeah, we don't know shit, we don't know what's out there, we don't know what the configuration is.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: But let's say that every galaxy has like a star in which there's a bunch of different planets that's orbiting around this star, the sun.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: So let's say all galaxies follow that model, and every galaxy has like an earth or some kind of intelligent species living on some planet.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: I bet you the extraterrestrial life that exists out there that definitely must exist is probably in that galaxy.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like I would go there first because it's so massive, so I can't imagine just the sheer amount of planets and stars that's in there, and just who knows, you guys.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I and there's something I was actually wondering because this was a part of like a big part of the movie was just stopping these people from releasing the information and putting it out there, and one of the girls she was just saying, like, this will really mess with people's sense of order in this world, and like our world will descend into chaos because like people can't be trusted with this information, and I was just wondering like, is that the truth?
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_00: Do you guys feel that way for real?
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, do you really think that humanity or you you as my guests, you as a listener of this salon, do you feel that?
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, obviously, I I think it would be nerve-wracking because it's like, even though I believe they exist, and I I feel like I should say I know because there's no way they don't.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's just not logical, right?
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: It still makes me nervous because you don't know like what's their nature, what what what is it that keeps them alive?
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_00: What if what if there's a planet out there with extraterrestrial beings who livelihood is eating one another, or or if they find a human to eat them.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_00: So it does make me nervous, but I I don't think I would much rather know than not know.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I would think that a lot of people feel that way as well.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just wondering, like, I I I think you guys just go watch that movie.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but a big part of it was like about just the government withholding this information from the larger collective for many reasons.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think a lot of reasons is for like greed and wanting to reverse engineer DNA and just get an advantage because humans are just like always greedy for progress and enterprise and technology and all of that.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just look at AI, right?
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we all know, and the people who are creating it know, like it's it'll it's gonna have crazy repercussions and it might extinguish human race, but they just can't help themselves.
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like the hunger for innovation and for technology and all of that is just it's too much, it's too great for them to like let it go.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, with like the government, let's say that this movie is based on like a true experience, and our government does know of has have they have had contact with extraterrestrial beings and they're just keeping it from us for whatever reason, and part of that reason being like they think that it will send the world into chaos.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like, is that true?
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I don't get that from people, especially with with social media now.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like people most people would rather know than to not know.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_00: Even if it's like a gru it's gruesome, the knowing.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_00: So what do you guys think?
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_00: Would you rather know or or just not know?
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think it would like send you into a spiral?
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because I mean, we don't need to we don't even need to talk about aliens to do that, just go study astronomy, you know?
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I hope we're not just burying our our heads in the sand, and yeah, yeah, that movie really got me thinking, and it was a really good movie, like it was really entertaining, it was fun, it was funny, interesting, and I think that they said that I need to look this up exactly to know which footage exactly, but they said a lot of the footage that they used about um you know the unidentified flying objects, like UFOs and extraterrestrial uh life were from like real footage that they got and they inserted it into the movie.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_00: I need to look up which ones it they were specifically, but yeah, it just had me thinking like it's not that I don't believe the people who said they've seen these things, it's just I guess we're just like so disconnected from it, and there's always like a huge grain of salt, not knowing if maybe they you know were mistaken or they thought something was something that it wasn't.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_00: It really had me thinking, and since I was already going down this astronomy rabbit hole a couple days ago, and just like really doing a deep dive on the planet and just the vastness of the universe in general, and just thinking about like dark matter and all of that, like it's crazy.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_00: We really are just a couple of sentient beings on a floating rock in space in the vastness of space, anything could come our way, like literally it's not like we have an iron dome around the and even if we did, like, how do we even know if that would stop anything out there from coming in?
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, who knows what kind of materials they have?
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm like vibranium these these mystical metals that you know you hear about in science fiction, but they actually exist.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows what's going on out there?
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_00: So that was a really, really, really interesting movie and just really made me think.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_00: And those are the the kind of those are the kinds of experiences that I really like and yearn for because I don't know, they just enrich my life so much and they make me think and yeah, so I would definitely recommend you guys watch that movie.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_00: Stop listening to reviews, and even if you hear negative reviews about it, like if you're genuinely interested, go watch it for yourself.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_00: Don't just listen to what other people are saying about it.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know some people are saying, like, it's not that great of a movie.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's his best movie, but you know, he's still he's still a professional, he's still like high, highly talented.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_00: So even if it's not his best movie, compared to like somebody else who maybe that's their best movie, like it might be on that level, so yeah, definitely watch it, you guys.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_00: If just not for the pure entertainment, it is very entertaining, and Emma Emily Blunt is just amazing.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_00: Ugh, she's so good, you guys.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's that's all really I've been doing for or paying attention to for my film palette.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm just trying to get through some of the last that's on my my list for the summer movies, so I still have to watch.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_00: I still want to watch Supergirl and I want to watch the Sex in the City movies actually because I watched the show for the first time late last year, and I wanted to start, so there's like a sequel or like a continuation that's called Just Like That, which aired I think two, I'm not sure how many years ago, but recently, and I I wanted to wait to start that that show in just like that in the fall because I feel like sex in the city and just like that, it just gives me fall energy.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: But then I found out that there's movies, and I think there's two or three of them, so I still need to watch those, and then I will have completed my film summer palette.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, you guys, I did post um my earlier early summer palette for summer.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_00: How many times am I gonna say summer?
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_00: I posted about that on the Salon Gazette um Instagram page.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_00: So if you guys want to check it out, um I didn't want to like talk about it in this episode because again, I don't want it to be too long.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, check that out.
• 59:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I made some nice visuals and just kind of rating the different movies that I was watching, and it was also making me nostalgic and thinking some more about spring and late spring and early summer and just Gemini season.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was such a good time, you guys.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: I miss it.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: But once I'm done with my summer playlist, again, so many summer playlists to finish fashion, music, film, all of it.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll come back, you guys.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'll come back when we officially start fall, which is September 21st.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I I wanted to talk about maybe what I've been engaging in with visual art, but I haven't really been partaking, you guys.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_00: The most that it's looked like is just Pinterest.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_00: Late night, I'm yearning for some cozy late nights, just in bed and going ham on Pinterest and just getting inspired, getting inspiration and ideas and all of that.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, in terms of visual art, honestly, that's really all I've been most of what I've been engaging with.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_00: I have some exciting activities that I want to do this fall in terms of like museums and art galleries, and so I'll come back.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'll come back, I'll come back.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_00: I honestly just wanted the salon session to be just kind of like a a little nudge for this last summer hurrah to really get any, like I said, last doable activity or aesthetic or whatever it is for the summer.
• 1:01:30
  SPEAKER_00: Now is your chance because once it's done, it's done.
• 1:01:34
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, don't mind me, you guys.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just checking my notes to make sure that I yapped enough of what I wanted to yap about.
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_00: But again, I've told you guys before, every time I end a good episode, I always feel like as I'm ending, like I didn't fully talk about everything I wanted to, and so that's how I know it was a good episode because I always feel like that at the end of it.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I talked about fashion, I talked about art, I talked about music, I talked about how I'm feeling last summer hurrah, and that's it, you guys.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_00: How are you guys feeling?
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_00: As if we're in real time or something.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_00: But either way, I hope you guys are keeping your finger on the pulse of your art palette every month because it is important to engage with art on a consistent basis.
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, not let it take over your life because that's not balance.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_00: But remember, I told you guys that literally engaging with art has been proven scientifically.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's like a study that's been done about this, proven to lead to you living a longer life and just more fulfilled life.
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, I hope you guys are engaging with the art around you, and I'm excited, honestly.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited for the new energy of fall to come in, even though I'm experiencing a little bit of melancholy, but I think it's good for me to maybe it's good for me to be feeling it this early because as we really get into the trenches of like winter and the seasonal depression starts hitting, maybe by that point, like I'll already be strapped and ready and just you know can get over that more quickly.
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm excited for the new energy that's coming for fall and all the new inspirations and all the new material and in the art world.
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's all I have for you guys for today.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you as always for listening to me yap and for maybe wherever you're listening.
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because sometimes when I'm listening to podcasts, I would literally respond to the host as if they can hear me.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_00: So if you guys were yapping alongside with me as well, thank you for engaging, and I love you guys so so much, and I'll be back with another episode next week.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_00: Until then, you guys, get that last summer hurrah out of your system right now.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I know some of us are feeling upset that it's the end of summer and we're going into fall.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_00: But I always have this quote for for as I was literally saying that I'm not a Kanye fan, but there's a song that he has, and in his song, there's this woman who's saying, like, even if you're not ready for the day, it cannot always be night.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I will literally say that to myself sometimes when I'm really tired and I just don't want to, I don't feel like getting along with my day.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say to myself, Sarah, even if you're not ready for today, it can't always be night, so we just gotta move on.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, you guys, seasonal change is good, even if we're not ready for it, like it can't always be summer or else we'll burn out, or you know, think about like the trees on earth, like they'll they'll like wither away because like dang, we need a break too.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_00: They need to break too, right?
• 1:04:40
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, instead of being melancholy, and I'm also speaking to myself, look to incorporate new energies into your life, and I will probably be back with a salon session just in talking about us and how we can infuse this new fall energy into every aspect of our art palette and more.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_00: So, until then, you guys, I'll see you guys in the next salon session.
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_00: I love you guys so much.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_00: Stay informed, stay active, stay artistic, and till next time.
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_00: Bye guys.