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Eek at the article. This is an interesting example of non-dialogic communication in journalism. (She even misuses the term "dialogue" when "monologue" would be more appropriate. ) Sorry if I'm heading off-topic, but this sort of communication strategy really bothers me: I.e., when confronted with an inconvenient fact which could undermine your argument, incorporate it into your argument using a disingenuous transitional word or phrase. I actually despise this strategy with a passion, whether it's employed by a journalist, an attorney, a teacher or a pastor. (Yes, our classes in our various disciplines taught us how to B.S. our way into churning out written/rhetorical product. That doesn't mean we SHOULD.) It's too bad, because this writer does have an interesting perspective coming from the same school, and possibly the same or similar classes, as Lizzy Grant. But she should exercise more restraint, and let us the readers draw our own (potential) connections between dots, rather than resort to projecting experiences onto someone she obviously didn't and doesn't know. I guess it just goes to show that negative bias =/= objectivity.

Our Sky Ferreira thread's 108 It's half as long as Charli's but that's okay Cos Sky will rock you for about a billion decades Tonight my dinner's Smirnoff Ice and cornflakes

Oh... Well she needs to stop it.

She can pull off any color hair, but she needs to let her eyebrows grow back!!!

removed because it doesn't feel all in good fun anymore I'm sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings.

I tried to like it... Not even the video can make me like it tho. Nope nope (Gonna try watching the video silenced, with Hallucination playing )

Just 6 sec of silence to separate the bonus tracks (I think I got it from Cracker's "Kerosine Hat" - not that it matters )

Flawlessly, of course

What is all this love for the cassette format? Piece of shit for when you don't care enough to splurge on the CD tbh (I bought Nevermind on cassette )

I guess I just associate those noises with radio waves. (Come to think of it, there was a movie that showed radio waves sort of "going back in time" as the view pulled back farther and farther from the Earth... now I'm just rambling...)

I didn't see any UFOs. (Just awkwardly computer-generated clouds ) I thought they were ascending to a Paradise of their own making. Or Eve's making. Or what Eve perceives as her own making. Then again...

UFOs, then. Poorly disguised as clouds.

I actually don't think they were UFOs. I saw clouds, and Adam and Eve ascending to Paradise. But I don't know whether she intended it to be ambiguous.

I think that's an excellent way to put it, "as much a poetry video as a music video." This is why I feel like I'm out of my league in attempting to offer any critical analysis of Tropico -- my dirty little secret is that even though I majored in English and am fascinated by human communication, I really don't like poetry. I've tried to sensitize myself to the beauty in turns of phrases, but the truth is that I really, really need to hear poetry served up in the elixr of music to make it go down. So I'm grateful to artists like Lana for making me care what artists like Whitman have to say! (I'm going to switch from "Lana" to "Del Rey" in the below paragraphs... it just seems more respectful when analyzing her work.) So with that intro...

OH! Thank you for this insight, it does help

Moy made a bunch. I think "Unreleased, Vol. V" may still be online somewhere.

At least the AMAY we have makes a nice outtro on my rock-oriented Sky playlist

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/3668-lanas-favorite-things/ The beginnings of one, anyway

Pure Heroine is down to $4.99 on amazon.com right now! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FAEPX9Y/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1JMYO8YYU57BL&coliid=I25OEMTQ1B6SJ4

So Far Away is brilliant! And she should have included Dreams Money Can Buy as well.

I think there's also a degree of dealing with emotional pain by finding comfort in beauty. I don't know, maybe I'm projecting. But I spent the first part of my life internalizing the Protestant ethic of plain-ness (in which beauty or anything non-utilitarian is seen as suspect, sometimes sinful... I think generally speaking, the Catholic expression of Christianity has embraced beauty more). And for me, it was downright depressing to always be chasing what my culture taught me was "useful." Now that I've opened my heart up more to appreciating the beautiful things in the world, I'm a lot happier. I can be driving to work, entirely too early in the morning, but then when I notice the way the sunlight hits the dew on the rearview mirror, lighting it up with a beautiful golden glow... I just feel grateful (It's just a visceral reaction, and takes too long to explain... but you know what I mean?)

Oh yeah, I had to get it through their Twitter account. https://twitter.com/KittenTheBand Scroll down to Nov. 4 and click on "view promotion," sign up (with email you don't mind being spammed by Elektra)

Just finished reading Allegiant, the third in the Divergent series. So good!

I really like it and wouldn't change a thing for my own use. But since you're wanting feedback for a class... Either she needs more color like Sitar said, or if you're really trying to emphasize her eyes, mute everything else even MORE to show you meant to do that (her eyes are too white otherwise). Muted is a cool look IMO, but the eyes and the "SKY FERREIRA" are too white I think.