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Well, I must be somewhat excited because I just caved and made my first-ever pre-order for Sucker. Hoping the title's not prophetic I've been waiting to buy Boom Clap and I love Charli and well, I just caved, that's all. I guess BTR is sort of what we expected... as in, feared... we were just hoping for better :/ I have to admit I like parts of the song. As National Anthem pointed out, the verses are good. It really is the chorus that messes it up for me. But hey, there's 11 more tracks. I'm still holding out hope! Even if one of them is SuperLove because I really like it in a guilty-pleasure sort of way

Oooh, I've loaded this into iTunes, and when I get a chance I'll take a listen. Offhand, I'd say yes, delete the bolded ones, as I think you've succeeded in identifying the ones with a somewhat different sound, and that would take the playlist under 80 minutes. (Though I do like Never Let Me Go toward the end... :/ ) But I'll listen to it and see how it flows, and if any other song sticks out as a candidate for removing.

There are plenty of 14-year-old girls out there interested in expanding their taste in good music Hopefully these are the girls she's talking about reaching. I really want to see her lure in the masses with a couple of conventional pop hits, and on the rest of the album take it to the next level. Hey, I can dream.

Sounds like a playlist in the making to me

There may be similar threads out there, but my intent is to create a place to showcase our favorite genres, subgenres, decades, themes, etc... be as general, specific, or inaccurate as you like! I Love 80s Prog Rock 1. Juke Box Hero - Foreigner 2. Tom Sawyer - Rush 3. Jane - Jefferson Starship 4. Ah! Leah! - Donnie Iris 5. The Logical Song - Supertramp 6. Rockin' the Paradise - Styx 7. Fight the Good Fight - Triumph 8. Who's Behind the Door - Zebra 9. In the Mood - Robert Plant 10. It Can Happen - Yes 11. Sole Survivour - Asia 12. Only the Young - Journey 13. If You Want My Love - Cheap Trick 14. Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon 15. Wind Him Up - Saga 16. Fantasy - Aldo Nova 17. Flash - Queen I chose this among my all-time favorite playlists, not because the 80s was the zenith of progressive rock (that was the 70s), but because some of these are the songs that made me begin to seriously fall in love with music.

Just pretty enough and just creepy enough that the viewer can project her own trauma into the storyline. Showing the cult daddy ( /abusive lover /aliens with cattle prods) could interfere with that I suppose. But yeah, I don't feel the need to watch it again. Ever.

"Call me poison ivy cause I'm far from good, but pretty from afar like a dark star" I've always thought this line was sort of like a middle finger to her haters. I don't know, maybe she internalized such labels more than that, but it's such a happy song it gives me the impression she's over it to an extent. So my guess is "Driving in Cars" describes a time after the "Ultraviolence" relationship. Though now that I think about it, I suppose the UV "Jim" could have colored her perceptions of her past. I dunno.

Well, I got halfway through @@Rebel 's epic playlist... but it's like so many stories at once, I kinda got information overload! Too...much...beauty... So I got inspired to make two shorter playlists. Some of these are songs I rarely listen to, so it's nice to finally have a reason. Strange Love 1. Pin Up Galore 2. Strange Love 3. Rehab 4. On Our Way 5. Queen of the Gas Station 6. Never Let Me Go 7. Yayo (2010) 8. Sad Girl 9. Gramma 10. Ride (video version) 11. Guns and Roses 12. Angels Forever, Forever Angels DOPE CINEMA 1. Tropico (Score) 2. Body Electric 3. Cola 4. Radio (Instrumental) 5. Video Games 6. Hotel Sayre 7. Young and Beautiful 8. National Anthem (video version) 9. Blue Jeans (video version with strings intro) 10. Once Upon a Dream 11. Million Dollar Man (demo) 12. The Other Woman (instrumental) 13. Blue Velvet 14. Old Money 15. Ride (instrumental with strings intro) 16. Born to Die 17. Bel Air (with intro) Sort of my own version of Tropico, somewhat more mellow so I can listen at bedtime

Or maybe I've just been reading a lot of Robert Charles Wilson lately. Thanks for taking me back 2 tha basics

Still can't unhear "my coasters smell like you"

I adore Sirens. I don't know why I can't get into the "new" tracks on From the End or Young like Me.

WARNING: POSSIBLY STUPID QUESTIONS AHEAD Okay, so I've looked up metaphysics on Wikipedia and followed the rabbit trail of links that article spawned. And I'm still totally confused. What is metaphysics based on? What is the first thing that a Metaphysics 101 professor would say to brand-new metaphysics students, or students contemplating taking metaphysics? Where are you coming up with this stuff? To what extent is it intentionally speculative? Is there a sacred text, or is it just sort of a boiling down of all the sacred texts of human religions in an attempt to figure out what is in the collective unconscious, and thus to trace back the clues to the ultimate origins of mankind? SPOILER ALERT: And is the answer supposed to be, "aliens"? How does metaphysics relate to panspermia, if at all?

How did I miss this first half of your comments yesterday? This is the crux of the matter for me. Thank you for clarifying your position, @@FormerLanaFan ...here's hoping I'm not the "self-righteous 'free-sex ideologist' here with little education and life experience" because that would be hilarious on too many levels. Peace... <3

@@Wilde_child I don't know your situation, but I don't believe that it's too late for you :hugs:

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I don't want to give bloodredjam/formerlanafan too hard a time. These sort of feelings are deeply rooted in worldview, and I think he's brave to express them so honestly. Sometimes it can help people to give them the "hard truth," but sometimes our best intentions just end up harming people. Especially when our worldview is rooted in religion (that is, our attempts to relate to God), it can be very difficult to see when maybe we're going down a path God never asked us to go down. #askmehowIknow

It's not that they knew each other well. They had met before (seems like it was the Mando Diao concert in 2010? but I'm not sure I'm remembering it right) and they had been friendly. EDIT: Yeah, that's the one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above_and_Beyond_%E2%80%93_MTV_Unplugged

Lana's polyamory (if that is the right word... I think she has used the word "polygamy" but that doesn't seem to fit either) has been making me uncomfortable for awhile now -- but also opening my eyes to what it must be like for people who openly defy conventional mores. And frankly, some conventional mores need defying. I say this as someone who wishes there was more room in our culture for both women and men who wish to pursue celibacy before marriage. I grew up in purity culture; I was raised to see "girls who do" as something Other, and my parents even questioned whether a close female friend of mine was "a good person" upon finding out she was sexually active. I am ashamed to admit I bought into it long enough to wonder how I would relate to my own daughter if she grew up to be someone "believing in sex before marriage." THIS is cultural insanity. THIS is what is mentally unbalanced: pitting "good girls" against "bad girls," friends against friends, even mothers against daughters. This is what should outrage us: shaming women (regardless of their choices) for being embodied as sexual beings, shaming men (and women) for being attracted to them as sexual beings, and passing on plenty of sexual hang-ups to our daughters AND our sons, whether they are people who "do" or "don't." The double standard doesn't work for us anymore, if it ever did. And attempting the pseudo-egalitarian solution of slut-shaming men as well as women doesn't cut it either. The world is becoming more complicated (culturally... sexually... ) and maybe that scares some people. But maybe this is an opportunity to find other ways of encouraging each other to be more loving, respectful, honorable human beings instead of resorting to the implication "just be more like me so I can feel better about you as well as myself." Many of us are not buying it anymore, and for that I am grateful. For my daughter's sake, and for the sake of other people's sons and daughters, I am grateful. LDR is not alone in portraying female sexual empowerment; as others have pointed out, artists like Miley Cyrus are creating space for women to be fully embodied as themselves (for better or worse -- it is possible to see both, and still welcome the greater space). Lana is just more overtly analytical about it. I say we need her voice, even if I personally disagree with hers sometimes. I hope she doesn't suffer remorse for it. I hope she realizes she is on the front lines of something big -- even if she didn't ask for the confrontation, I hope she decides that being true to herself is worth it.

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I think of it as tongue-in-cheek but still looking fondly back.

Some people do. Often the same ones who enjoy telling everyone how logical they are, more than actually putting it into practice consistently But I get what you're saying. It's too easy to shut down when overwhelmed by one's emotions in social situations. The good news is, some people who have built up numerous connections between the two sides of the brain, ie multitaskers, report that they can learn how to process emotions along with rational thoughts at (more or less) the same time. Apparently it's a skill one can get better at with practice