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^ Got her bad baby by her heavenly tsela Directly after WITHOUT YOU on BTD is LOLITA ... or is it Lalita, another name for Maya-Shakti??? http://www.shreemaa.org/worship-of-goddess-lalita/ I wish there was one book I could recommend ... lately I've been reading Frithjof Schuon, who speaks of the Perennial Philosophy -- if one were studying Metaphysics, that would probably be where I would go But in the past it's been people like Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Stephan Hoeller, Carl Jung, Algis Uždavinys, Arthur Waite, Franz Hartmann, Manly P. Hall, etc. and whatever I could find in English on Kabbalah -- none are easy reads but I find I have actually understood them more through the lens of Lana's work, intentionally or not on her part But perhaps the source of her knowledge is summed up in the passage from Psalm 51 that she flashes during "Body Electric": "Behold, thou lovest truth in the inward affections: therefore hast thou taught me wisdom in the secret of mine heart."

The video behind her lends a new dimension to "Without You" -- when Adam (Ego) and Eve (Body-Soul) are separated, they fall into duality, Shiva gazing upon Shakti as Maya in the world (the externalized Image burned into the brain of the World-Soul), which is, after all, "nothing" without him, being "without" and not "within" Can you picture it? The life we could've lived; Heaven on earth in Paradise? http://pages.intnet.mu/ramsurat/GauraKrishna/English/RamayanaGenesis.html The China Doll with money, notoriety, etc. as Eve "without" is seen falling forever, farther away from her eternal lover Adam (as the girl in red does at the end of the "Shades of Cool" video, while the girl in white, as what is "within," drowns) I wonder if she ever came upon noted metaphysician Frithjof Schuon? Or perhaps Jakob Boehme? "Shared my body and my mind with you ..."

Reading through her interviews lately has definitely reminded me of reading through Bowie's interviews . . . there is the same sort of sense that there is art behind the artifice (unlike a certain Not So Legit singer who seems to rather be enacting parody) As Pitchfork says ... they are both genres unto themselves

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5010-ldr-i-always-want-to-experiment-interview-with-dpa

lbr this is the only option and unlike some people and she doesn't come off like a tryhard copy

"Jump" goes all the way up to 22K, but "Get Drunk" only goes to 18K; wouldn't a faker want to make the spectrogram look "better"? Anyways, the people on Dime always seem to be sticklers for quality. The TPB poster was probably incredulous that it could exist in FLAC at all.

This is what the original uploader (who has only ever uploaded one torrent, despite being on the site since 2005) says of the NKF demos on Dimeadozen.org Maybe you Lizzy scholars knew this though

"It’s us against the world. [Chorus] If you want a cola, I can make it colder, If you want a bad girl, Nobody’s bolder, And if you want the Queen Of New York then you Better call me, call me." Ultraviolence shows the Lower Sophia breaking away from the Pleroma (the East) and diving into the Western waters ... she becomes an idol, a China Doll, a narcissistic pop diva who has failed the Call from God. But if Ego only gives the word, then Soul will return to him, and enchant him with her pneumatic Word (and her aching soul) and not with external Beauty. This is the whole Shiva/Shakti dynamic. "Old Money" seems to have another covert alchemical reference, if we take the Romeo and Juliet theme itself as having significant lyrics: "What is a youth? Impetuous fire. What is a maid? Ice and desire." She said it: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5030-lana-del-rey-covers-madame-figaro-magazine/?hl=%2Balchemy+%2Bdan&do=findComment&comment=197925 Dan = DN in Hebrew, Deadly Nightshade playing Black Keys all over her effulgent Rays

The "Cruel World" interpretation is a bit nuts (but so is everything else in this thread) . . . The Priestess' TORAH = "Got your Bible" (BJ = Barrie-James?) "Shared my body and my mind with you That's all over now Did what I had to do 'Cause you're so far past me now" Lana (Gnostic sage that she is) is here speaking in the person of Isis-Mary-Sophia the Queen of Heaven to her children, having communicated her own pneumatic essence to them--the "shared" body and mind is the Eucharist of the Gnostics in memory of the passion of Sophia, when she "fell from the Pleroma" and was instrumental in the creation of the material world (remember that Lana says she is obsessed with the origin of the universe, on a metaphysical level) Her children, however, have strayed far from the Path into the delusive veils of the World (down on the West Coast), a party where everyone seems to be bored http://www.gnosis.org/sophia.tale.html "With my little red party dress on Everybody know that I'm the best, I'm crazy Get a little bit of bourbon in ya Get a little bit suburban and go crazy" The red party dress girl is Lower Wisdom (Sophia) as Eve, the Object perceived (and worshiped) by various Subjects; i.e. the LDR jazz singer performer that we all know on the stage And why do they worship her? Because she reminds them of the Other Woman . . . "I'm so happy now that you're gone" is ironic -- Mary is heartbroken (Do you believe in God?) "I believe in the country America used to be. I believe in the person I want to become." http://hermetic.com/pgm/self-identify.html

It's a brighter, more dynamic sound ... the CD, on the other hand, is unrelenting darkness that kind of makes me wish I was dead

She differentiates herself from her audience which is both drunken and middle-class http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/lana-del-rey-interview/ As in ... "Here we are now, entertain us." They don't wonder in their suburban ennui; they merely want to be entertained. But she (the Other Woman) will be waiting, and whispers "remember." Clearly there is a bit of cynicism ... I sympathize. "In a world where everyone is bored, I like people with emotion." Her Bible and Gun emerge like an etherial echo from beyond; esoteric Ice and Fire in distinction from their exoteric Bibles and Guns. Let the light in; it's a Cruel World. "Got your Bible, got your gun ... I'm finally happy now that you're gone" is perhaps an ironic inversion of Barrie's line https://www.facebook.com/nightmareboybjo/posts/413946528751206 "she's so lonely now he's gone he's day dreaming of his new gun she's a feeling his only one"

Put Reflektor and UV on shuffle together Works perfectly ... Orpheus and Eurydice in dialogue

A voice from the sea (Eliot's mermaids singing)

http://www.full-stop.net/2013/07/30/interviews/michael-schapira/jodi-wiley/ "I'm the Queen of Alchemy ..." Initiation from Father Yod as Initiation from God; broken down and built up again (pledge allegiance to your dead dad)

You can't post the momentous, life-shattering article where she fell off the wagon and not give a translation

Impeccable taste as always http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwSgVlklLEE Except the Eagles

sounds good to me but I keep getting distracted by the hotness Existential anguish for lost souls is kind of what I expect from an ldr performance though Someone post a 1080p so I can die already

They played "Old Money" on the NPR classical station yesterday so they better stan

Ass-umptions itt

Did everyone in Russia buy a copy Queen of Pop I guess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_%28Katy_Perry_album%29#Commercial_performance

First rule is to never dip into your own stash

Related . . . http://reductress.com/post/lana-del-rey-death/

UV sounds amazing on vinyl It breaks my cold, dead little heart to know people have only heard the awful CD version

What was the deal with that article about Lizzy's dad helping to promote her AKA album

Raise Me Up (Ms. Isis South)