DouglasReese

This is weirdly a question being asked a lot, but no... There's a sex scene involved, but it's not played erotically.

Facebook page! For those who want to keep tabs on production and the like! https://www.facebook.com/warwick2017film/

The film with star both my fiancé and I, and I’ll be shooting it in Cincinnati, Seattle, and Portland over the period of a week in April. The drama with focus on a depressed twentysomething traveling to Seattle. While there, he comes across a male prostitute around his age. The story follows them together, their conversations, their silences, and their ultimate desires. Sounds Weekend-esque, but what I've got storming in my head and writing on the page will not necessarily be interested in that territory. I'm hoping to have it online by the final week of April, where I'll send a private link to anybody interested. I'm focusing on submitting this one to festivals, though. There will be three versions of the film: an uncensored cut, a censored cut (for family and friends), and an uncensored festival cut. Just wanted to make the mini-announcement.

Had no idea, but looked him up and listened to him. Good stuff. The album itself is named after my cat, Pazuzu.

Care if I bump this up?

For anybody interested, lyrics are now posted in the summaries of each track on the album.

If a mod would be kind enough to move this to the "Paul Reese' thread, I'll love them forever.

Personally, I absolutely adore this song - and it just may be my favorite of her unreleased material (certainly up there with "Backfire"). It seems like a prelude, in ways, to what would ultimately become "Body Electric". ​"Chandeliers and seizures, honey" just gives me chills. So melancholic.

My absolute favorite Lana song. I like to think she's saying bonny - because she mentions it elsewhere on the album (in "Shades of Cool", if I recall). I do, however, thank it can be taken double - as with most of her lyrics - as a reference to Bonnie and Clyde. It fits with the theme and enriches it. Layers, references. All typical of Lana. As I said in another thread, I love the David Lynch references. I refuse to accept "fire and he walks with it" isn't a reference to Twin Peaks until otherwise proven. It just seems so fitting with the trumpet in the background - which recalls Mulholland Drive and the scene in the Club Silencio. Personally I get a lot of imagery from this song. From the start, I envision a very miserable jazz club surrounded by blue flames, with Lana just standing on the stage with mascara running down her face. When the chorus kicks in with "he's got the fiiiiire", I see those flames grow in intensity and turn bright red and orange. The chorus after the bridge, where the production fades out, genuinely moves me beyond words. I can't describe it. Something about it hits me hard. It seems so raw, so vulnerable, and so lost. So very, very sad - which is fitting to the premise of the song and the overall aesthetic of her work - especially on Ultraviolence. This is easily one of my favorite songs ever. Certainly one of the most powerful every time I listen to it.

Thanks for the comments! I'm definitely very insecure about my voice (limited range, and a bit nasal-y), but I'll try lessening it or ditching it completely if I do more work.

Mostly didn't know if I should have posted it there or not. Have mercy on the newbie.

Different folks, some get strokes.

Please don't be afraid to leave your honest thoughts after you do!

There were originally two other originals and a cover of a Velvet Underground song, but were dropped at the last minute due to not quite fitting in with the concept I had in mind when working on production. https://soundcloud.com/paul-reese-30998502/sets/zu-paul-reese Reviews, comments, attacks? All appreciated. And fuck you, Soundcloud, for not embedding it. Ugh.

I made a playlist of songs that influenced me for ZU. Influences for ZU

Laughing in fits above the stadium, a bottle of absinthe, and she takes the call; when the bomb is off, radiation. On the radio stations, you're pulling a condom from the witch's cranium.

That's something!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W89ghwJi2c Well, fuck. There we go. Okay. SAMPLES (in order): Fassbinder Bathtub Full of VHS Awkward (Part II) Carew Tower (When Pigs Fly) Fairuza Balk Red Graduate TESLA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W89ghwJi2c Please, somebody tell me how to post a video embed here. (Newbie)

Because Novem did his. OFFICIAL tracklist, so that you can get a bit hyped. If you haven't already. And here's the opening track: https://soundcloud.com/paul-reese-30998502/paul-reese-fassbinder-single

I didn't see a post like this anywhere, so if there is, if a mod could just merge it into that one, that'd be pretty slick. But if not, here we go. Top 5? Top 10? Top 100? Whatever it may be, what are your all-time favorites? I'm going to get a bit excessive and post my 100 favorites. 01. The Velvet Underground and Nico. The Velvet Underground. 02. Ultraviolence. Lana Del Rey. 03. Animals. Pink Floyd. 04. Revolver. The Beatles. 05. Led Zeppelin IV. Led Zeppelin. 06. Nina Simone Sings the Blues. Nina Simone. 07. Siamese Dream. The Smashing Pumpkins. 08. Hounds of Love. Kate Bush. 09. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Neutral Milk Hotel. 10. After the Gold Rush. Neil Young. 11. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Kanye West. 12. Rain Dogs. Tom Waits. 13. The Cars. The Cars. 14. The Graduate. Simon and Garfunkel. 15. White Album. The Beatles. 16. ​The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan. 17. Either/Or. Elliott Smith. 18. Pet Sounds. The Beach Boys. 19. American IV: The Man Comes Around. Johnny Cash. 20. ​Nevermind. Nirvana. 21. Pink Moon. Nick Drake. 22. The Smiths. The Smiths. 23. Kind of Blue. Miles Davis. 24. Born to Die: The Paradise Edition. Lana Del Rey. 25. The Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground. 26. Straight Outta Compton. N.W.A. 27. Illinois. Sufjan Stevens. 28. Blue. Joni Mitchell. 29. There's a Riot Goin' On. Sly & the Family Stone. 30. Blue Album. Weezer. 31. Love and Rockets. Love and Rockets. 32. Frances the Mute. The Mars Volta. 33. Let It Bleed. ​The Rolling Stones. 34. Demon Days. ​Gorillaz. 35. The Wall. Pink Floyd. 36. Illmatic. Nas. 37. Power, Corruption & Lies. New Order. 38. ​Starsailor. Tim Buckley. 39. The Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd. 40. Dummy. Portishead. 41. Days of Future Passed. The Moody Blues. 42. Blood on the Tracks. Bob Dylan. 43. Unknown Pleasures. Joy Division. 44. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The Flaming Lips. 45. Remain in Light. Talking Heads. 46. OK Computer. Radiohead. 47. Faith. ​George Michael. 48. Transformer. Lou Reed. 49. Queen of Denmark. John Grant. 50. Fragile. Yes. 51. Americana. The Offspring. 52. Modern Vampires of the City. Vampire Weekend. 53. Boots. Nancy Sinatra. 54. The Idiot. Iggy Pop. 55. Ocean Rain. Echo & the Bunnymen. 56. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles. 57. ​A Flock of Seagulls. A Flock of Seagulls. 58. Is This It. The Strokes. 59. The Seer. Swans. 60. What's Going On. Marvin Gaye. 61. The Downward Spiral. Nine Inch Nails. 62. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Elton John. 63. Funeral. Arcade Fire. 64. The Infamous. ​Mobb Deep. 65. Back to Black. Amy Winehouse. 66. ​Isn't Anything. My Bloody Valentine. 67. Alopecia. Why?. 68. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The Smashing Pumpkins. 69. Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. blink-182. 70. Tea for the Tillerman. Cat Stevens. 71. ​Dookie. Green Day. 72. Too Bright. Perfume Genius. 73. Mezermize. System of a Down. 74. Daydream Nation. Sonic Youth. 75. Purple Rain. ​Prince and the Revolution. 76. Goon. Tobias Jesso Jr. 77. She's So Unusual. Cyndi Lauper. 78. Young Liars. TV on the Radio. 79. In the Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson. 80. The Blueprint. Jay-Z. 81. (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. Oasis. 82. Fairytale. Donovan. 83. Sweet Baby James. James Taylor. 84. Black Holes and Revelations. Muse. 85. Strange Days. The Doors. 86. Post. Björk. 87. Disintegration. The Cure. 88. Get Rich or Die Tryin'. 50 Cent. 89. Psychocandy. The Jesus and Mary Chain. 90. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz. Miley Cyrus. 91. The Virgin Suicides. Air. 92. Letting Off the Happiness. ​Bright Eyes. 93. Goblin. Tyler, the Creator. 94. Under Construction. Missy Elliott. 95. Metallica. Metallica 96. FutureSex/LoveSounds. Justin Timberlake. 97. Dead Man's Bones. Dead Man's Bones. 98. Buddy Holly. Buddy Holly. 99. Treats. Sleigh Bells. 100. Like a Prayer. Madonna. Whew.

I think the single magnum opus of Lana's career - from a one-track standpoint, not an album or completely aesthetic one - is her song "Sad Girl". The way it sounds like it's teleporting you straight to a jazz club in hell, with blue flames around that emirate orange when that chorus comes around. There's something terrifying about the way the song works David Lynch references in - almost reinventing imagery from Mulholland Drive's sequences involving the Club Silencio. And when the chorus is delivered after the bridge - with the production vanishing, the reverb on her vocals sounding like screams of emotional pain from the deep pits of hell, and the small, ironically hopeful strings - it becomes one of the only times in Lana's career where I cry every time I hear it.