DeadAgainst

Of all Dreams this is the Wildest

People keep recommending chicks like her and Ryn and Zella and I just kind of feel like the whole world has gone mad ("get a little bit suburban and go crazy") ...

The esoteric material is already there in AKA, especially "Kill Kill" being about an alchemical/psychological "death" where Soul "leaves" Ego when it descends into the Underworld of the unconscious (thus the original title, "The Ocean"), something a Jungian would be familiar with … an idea she would return to in "West Coast" The quote closely evokes the work of Henry Corbin and his concept of the mundus imaginalis, though perhaps only because they drink from the same perennial spring ... http://hermetic.com/moorish/mundus-imaginalis.html A concept that is difficult to summarize -- http://neuroscienceandpsi.blogspot.com/2012/03/henry-corbins-mundus-imaginalis-sufism.html We can see how the imaginal landscape Lana has consistently crafted fits into this same paradigm, intentionally or otherwise … perhaps it could be best summarized as seeing and living within the archetypal reality behind our everyday reality (this is Plato's Cave 101) Additionally, "TV in Black and White" AKA "Living Without You" evokes Sufi themes -- Henry Corbin discusses precisely, in almost identical words, Black and White leading to an efflux of Color when God sees the world through the eyes of the devotee's heart, and Light is revealed in Darkness … "Prison isn't going to keep me from you" -- another repeated theme as seen in her collaboration with The Weeknd, man as a Prisoner of the Cosmos and himself in the Gnostic conception thereof

hmm ew no but you got me to listen so +1 for the bait

It sounds like the sounds at the beginning --

http://www.algonet.se/%7Ebassman/articles/96/hol.html http://www.parareligion.ch/2010/bowiegrail.htm This track and "Without You" are one ("I lost myself when I lost you" = "I'm nothing without you") … "Can you hear me" being the transmission from soul to ego as he is lost in his tin can spaceship spinning around the Still Point

No idea. But "Terrence" being Terry makes a lot of sense, that's all. The song TLY seems to take its thematic cues more directly from Lana's "Without You" though, like it's the sequel

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/jump-they-say/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJt0SQec0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlM5XX5pypk

That would explain why it sounds like an outtake from 2011-2012

The production is dark and warm as Ultraviolence should've sounded … the little bleeps and bloops sound like a nod to Bowie's "Andy Warhol" And there's also a bit of this, maybe?

Maybe every track is a Bowie reference?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4CC_ZYlI4A

Sequel to "Without You" and "c-can you hear me" from China Girls who ch-ch-change their DNA

"People say your imagination is your greatest tool to success, and I think it’s because things manifest in reality from the visions you have in your mind’s eye. And so the most important thing is to really have a rich internal world, and live there, because reality will never meet your expectations." The inner world is the archetypal world, and the outer is that which is visible to the senses … Within You and Without You. Boy, look at you looking at me I know you know how I feel Loving you is hard, being here is harder [cf. Ultraviolence's "loving you is really hard"] You take the wheel I don't wanna do this anymore It's so surreal I can't survive if this is all that's real [cf . "reality will never meet your expectations"] ... Boy, look at you looking at me I know you don't understand ... Anyone can start again Not through love but through revenge Through the fire we're born again Peace by vengeance brings the end To be born again through the fire is another overt alchemical reference--"the inner marriage, where anima and animus alchemically merge in the crucible of human flesh." We see the same dynamic at work from previous tracks, namely, the boy is the Subject (Ego) and she is the Object (Soul as outpictured), but at this point she has now begun to fundamentally reverse the dynamic … it's "Music to Watch Boys To" rather than vice versa. She becomes the active agent, rather than the passive receptacle of violent male energies. The beach would recall another Eliot poem … "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

Topical as always with the political commentary

I saw this in a banner ad quite synchronously on another site … looks like the gun ? http://www.amazon.com/gp/adlp/nerfmodulus/

A video about hating on the paparazzi because they drove her broke paying them off

Rob gently explained it will be released only if Franco wants his legs broke

Cutoff is around 15khz so probably not a true 320kbps encode

As a failed Graphic Design major I appreciate the Papyrus usage Also frankly always humbled by how good a bunch of teenage fangirls are at Photoshop layout, judging from the Art section

I see she's been watching Yacht Rock

BD, YaB, CH#2, SW, OUAD, WC (Radio Mix), BE, ICF, WFL

She sort of explained that when she said her songs were "personal" and she didn't want anyone to hear them. And really, I almost feel like my posting about them is a violation of privacy … but it's more interesting than talking about which dresses she's wearing. There is an esotericism beyond orthodox Christianity. In order to dismiss all of this, you would have to blatantly ignore what she says … http://www.thefader.com/2014/06/17/love-death-and-jazz-seven-outtakes-from-our-lana-del-rey-intervie/ Sometimes, people confuse their own intellectual apathy with others' …

A Bible? Probably around this time http://biblehub.com/psalms/146-3.htm http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5121-lana-del-rey-covers-rolling-stone-august-2014/page-2 http://www.livereal.com/spiritual_arena/perennial_philosophy_evidence.htm http://www.npr.org/2014/06/21/323209791/lana-del-rey-i-dont-have-other-people-in-mind

One of the few classics of modern literature that is actually fun and engaging to read all the way through ...

I have too many different vinyl rips ...