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Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
The sun also rises on those who fail the call

John Derek actually

smh at me reading this intersexuality

Live fast, die young

Anthony Burgess: Ultraviolence (Ultraviolence)
 
Belinda Carlisle: Heaven is a place on earth (Video Games)
 
Beverly Donofrio: (Riding) // Driving in Cars with Boys (Driving in Cars with Boys)
 
Bruce Springsteen: I'm on fire (Summertime Sadness, Body Electric)
 
Bryan Adams: We were young and wild and free // You're young, you're wild, you're free (Cruel World)
 
Charles R. Cross (Kurt Cobain biography): Heavier Than Heaven // Heavier than heavenly (On Our Way)
 
Cyndi Lauper: Girls just wanna have fun (Driving in Cars with Boys)
 
Elvis: One for the money, two for the show (Million Dollar Man)
 
Ernest Hemingway: The sun also rises (Money, Power, Glory)
 
Funkadelic/Kanye West: Feet don't fail me now (Born to Die)
 
Gilbert Ryle: The ghost in (the) // your machine (She's Not Me)
 
Gods and Monsters (Jeff Buckley's first band): Gods and Monsters (Gods and Monsters)
 
Green Day: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Beautiful Player)
 
Guns N´Roses: Guns and roses (Guns and Roses)
 
Guns N' Roses: Sweet child of mine (Bel Air)
 

John Derek (Knock on Any Door) + True Romance: Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse // live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse (Driving in Cars with Boys)
 
John Newton: I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see // Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind (Born to Die)
 
Lou Reed: Take a walk on the wild side (Born to Die)
 
Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds are a girl's best friend //  Diamonds are my bestest friends  (The Body Electric)
 
Nabokov: Light of my life, fire of my loins (Off to the Races)
 
Nabokov: A paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames // Paradise is a hell-coloured flame sky (Angels Forever, Forever Angels)
 
Nabokov: Lolita (Lolita)
 
New Radicals: You’ve got the music in you (Westcoast)
 
Nietzsche: God's dead (Gods and Monsters)
 
Nirvana: Come as you are (Oh Say Can You See)

 
Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art (Gods and Monsters)
 
Phil Collins: I can feel it coming in the air tonight (Guns and Roses)
 
Samuel Johnson: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man // Man who makes a beast out of himself got nothing to lose (Tired of Singing the Blues)
 
Tennessee Williams: Relying on the kindness of strangers (Carmen)
 
The Beatles: (Lucy's) // Harvey's in the sky with diamonds (Cola)
 
The Crystals: He hit me and it felt like a kiss (Ultraviolence)
 
The Pogues: Queen of New York City (Old Money)
 
T-Rex: Children of the bad revolution (Children of the Bad Revolution)
 
The Who: Talking about my generation (Brooklyn Baby)
 
To Have and Have Not: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow //  You know how to whistle, don't 'cha? Just put your lips together and blow (Put Your Lips Together)
 
Tom Petty: Honey put on that party dress (American)
 
Whitman: I sing the body electric (I Sing the Body Electric)
 
Whitney Houston: Run to you (Old Money)
 
Whitney Houston: Queen of the night (Go Go Dancer)
 
Woodkid: Run, boy run (Money, Power, Glory)
 
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Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (West Coast video)
 
Erik Satie: Gymnopedie no 3 at the end of the Carmen video

My understanding is she was born in NYC, then the family moved to Lake Placid soon after.

y'all need to write my english analysis papers for me 

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Reminds me of a more amped up version of the "Lana and Dan" picture.

Will do! Give me a couple days to gather my evidence and I'll post in the Lana Thoughts forums!

DO. IT. I'm so so so interested in this.   

Wow! This is great findings everyone! Very interesting!
 
another tidbit that stuck out to me like a sore thumb: I also read that Yod like to record his music in one take, never practicing or rerecording as it was more pure and a channel 'direct' from God then. Sounds like someone we know with her practice of recording everything in one take eh?
 
Ah all of this is fitting way too perfectly, have we found the mysterious truth behind Ultraviolence? Lol
 
I think I should make a Source Family mega post because I'm finding more and more connections to other songs and Lana in general as well not just with Ultraviolence. Would you all be interested in that?

wow those pictures really do look like UV promos. I love your theory!!

Sorry, this is going to be a long one lol bear with me here.....
 
So I was watching a documentary about this hippie cult in the 70s in LA called the Source Family. While watching I couldn't help but be slapped in the face with how well it fit in with Ultraviolence. I was connecting dots like a motherfucking pro. I recommend watching it to see what I mean (it's on Netflix USA), or you could read these reviews here to get the gist:..
 
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/05/09/movie-review-the-source-family-crunchy-cult-story/YAGpjim%202kJkLXDVZSE1xeD29L/story.html
http://thehairpin.com/2013/05/the-source-family
 
Basically Jim Baker was a very handsome, very charismatic, but notoriously violent man that ran away from his wife and child to LA and founded this cult as Father Yod and had many beautiful young men and women join him to live in "peace, love, drugs and rock and roll". He was popular within Hollywood and was very rich and even robbed banks to fund his vegan restaurant, psychedelic band and his "family"..."He basically turned Sex Drugs and Roll and Roll into a religion" is a quote (paraphrasing) from the film. Kinda sounds like the same church Lana would subscribe to...
 
From the doc, the first things that popped out at me were:
 
1) "He used to call me DN that stood for Deadly Nightshade" sounds just like the people in the documentary talking about their hippie names and what they were called in the commune. Names like Galaxy, Orbit, Harvest Moon, Sunflower etc...
 
2) All the references to violence, hitting, etc fit with Jim Baker's history of violence, although I don't know if he was inclined to hit women...
 
3) Quite obviously.... "You're my cult leader" = Father Yod
 
4) The way she's talking about her Jim in the song is nearly identical to former members of the Source describing what it was like to be around their Jim, saying it was like they felt like they were kids again with him being their really cool rich foster dad who smoked a lot of drugs and lived a hedonistic and open lifestyle. The conditions they lived in despite the cult having lots of money, was near squalor with people living in cubby holes and in some instances being denied medical attention and treatment as it went against their beliefs. A child even reportedly died after being denied treatment for an infection. Jim was very strict with all of his commandments despite all the love he had for his "children". He even broke his own commandment of one woman for every one man when he decided to be polygamous and his original cult wife Ah-Om (aka Robin) said she felt as if he "had skinned her alive" when he took 13 wives. His treatment of Robin was very poor but even now she speaks highly of him and that her love for him took on an otherworldly dimension that was out of her control and listening to her talk about him is very similar to how Lana sings about her Jim in UV.
 
I think the inspiration from the Source Family could also bleed into the rest of the album, lending to the Southern California psychedelic surf twang throughout, even referencing the polygamy that was going on in SoC:
 
"And when he calls. He calls for me and not for you"
 
and what Father Yod was all about:..
 
"He prays for love, he prays for peace.And maybe someone new"
 
There might be connections in other songs, I'm still slowly working my way through the album and to be honest I still have the first 5 songs on repeat, so I'm not as familiar with the rest of the album. Oh and I know it probably doesn't mean anything but they reference taking "Black Beauties" in the movie about 10 minutes in.
 
And with this recent instagram selfie with Chuck with the caption "Sister Wives" the Source just fits a little too well:
 
http://instagram.com/p/pF6jVgiZvj/
 
Not only is Sister Wives a polygamy term, they're even dressed like Father Yod's wives. In fact I'd say Lana's really leaning towards a 70s flower child look this era, wouldn't you? Oh and not to mention... Yod/Jim fits Lana's Daddy type to a tee. Heck they even called him that!  (lol Barrie and his beard actually look like a member of the cult tbh)
 
Some pictures....


 
I don't think all songs are necessarily related to the Source but I think Lana may have been heavily influenced by them along with Jim Morrison, Kurt, Chet Baker, Jim Jones, Jim Beam, etc, and from her own life. Especially since the documentary came out in 2012 when she probably would have started to conceive what her next album would be.
 
I also believe that she took influence from her own experience with Atlantic Group and how she relates that to the 70s cult experience. To be honest, sometimes I feel like Lana writes songs like she's posting to Tumblr or Pintrest or some shit. Just name checking all the things that influence her and weaving a story around them. Like she's writing her own fan fiction through songs. Actually I still think all the songs written around "Every Man Gets His Wish" are about Lana's life as if it were blended with the movie True Romance. She even took a picture of her and Mike M. compared to Clarence and Alabama so clearly she is identifying with the Character there. It's basically her own blend of reality and fanfiction. But that's a post for another thread lol... 
 
Anyway before I go on and on, because I could with all these "connections" I found in this doc...Has anyone else seen The Source and what are your thoughts on this?

The 'people never die in Miami' lyric makes me think of Dexter tbh....

Their separation just made this song from Barrie so much sadder to me.




Excuse me while I have a moment to grieve.

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Will this be evilentity's coming out anthem? Stay tuned.

That is exactly the genre I need in my life

German itself isn't the ancestor of English or Scandinavian. We don't have written evidence of it, but linguists have reconstructed Proto-Germanic, the common ancestor of Germanic languages. English and German are siblings while Germanic is the father. I'm not sure if that's what you were trying to day, cuz the way you worded it made it sound like Modern German is the ancestor of Germanic languages.
 
EDIT: lol I didn't realize this was from last year. derp

listen to the interview here
 

But seriously (and late in the discussion), I am enjoying reading the fame vs Art debate. You all are very articulate and knowing.
If I may offer a biased opinion, I tend to believe that, at times Lana seems to pursue the epicurean ideal ("just an ordinary girl", "opulence is the end", simple things in life) but she also displays a decadent imagery...
I would dare to say the lady contradicts herself and might be aware of that.
 
As O. Wilde once wrote: "The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
I quite like that!

FIFY @@evilentity 

Well, didn't someone once say that all publicity is good publicity?
 
It's weird, even when I read the interview for the very first time - before the hype explosion - I just thought, well, I know where you're coming from. I didn't worry that she was about to take her own life or any of that and didn't really think twice about it... I imagined it kinda like she said it (having just listened to the audio.) But I guess the reason is, that I feel like I really relate to that kind of underlying blues where you don't take life for granted. You kinda question whether you want to be here or not, it's never just a given. But at the same time never ever wanting (truly) to take your own life, because the beauty of life isn't lost on you either.
 
I find Jaime's tweets really weird. It's REALLY hard for me not to think that the first one was indeed aimed at Lana. Fits perfectly. And if they're still as close as they have been in the past, then why isn't she up to date with this media storm of BS surrounding Lana?

Well, didn't someone once say that all publicity is good publicity?
 
It's weird, even when I read the interview for the very first time - before the hype explosion - I just thought, well, I know where you're coming from. I didn't worry that she was about to take her own life or any of that and didn't really think twice about it... I imagined it kinda like she said it (having just listened to the audio.) But I guess the reason is, that I feel like I really relate to that kind of underlying blues where you don't take life for granted. You kinda question whether you want to be here or not, it's never just a given. But at the same time never ever wanting (truly) to take your own life, because the beauty of life isn't lost on you either.
 
I find Jaime's tweets really weird. It's REALLY hard for me not to think that the first one was indeed aimed at Lana. Fits perfectly. And if they're still as close as they have been in the past, then why isn't she up to date with this media storm of BS surrounding Lana?