rightofjupiter

Hope is a dangerous thing vs. heroin

idk that i've actually cried to a song in a long time (the last one i can actually remember is crying to "stupid love" by gaga when it came out– lol i know– over the "free me from the shame" line). but whenever i am in my feels lately my go to's are "iou" and "born to lose" by u.s. girls, "lark song" by angel olson, and "pin up galore" by lana. what was the last movie, tv show, or book that made you cry?

13 Beaches vs. Hope is a Dangerous Thing...

Pawn Shop Blues vs. Cherry Blossom

Mermaid Motel vs. Trash Magic

Pin Up Galore vs. Mermaid Motel

a few off the top of my head: 3 Women Cecil B. Demented Vanity Fair (the Mira Nair version) Born in Flames Kaboom Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Nashville The Age of Innocence Safe Life During Wartime A Serious Man The Florida Project Eve's Bayou Serial Mom Jennifer's Body The Witch Titus Moulin Rouge Best in Show Party Girl Wet Hot American Summer The Gleaners & I

but omg the English countryside is so gorgeous! though i know not everyone can just flit off to the countryside whenever they feel like it.

i'd love a vinyl boxset in the vein of the ones bat for lashes did for her last two releases (they included posters, letters written as a character from one of the albums, postcards, an air freshener for the car, a patch and other cool stuff in addition to the vinyl). A boxset that draws on specific references from songs on the album and uses those to decide what to include...since we don't have any songs yet I'm not sure what those things would be but like..idk, an illustrated map of places in the midwest that the songs reference or something would be cool.

not the literal health dept shutting it down

based on her glam in the announcement i would guess she's going to make at least a short appearance? jealous of all u LA ppl!

ahhh so jealous los angeles! wonder how the event will be organized (where, how it'll be covid safe etc). anyone from LB going?

love "wipe your tears"!

my picture disc just shipped! i love a picture disc so am excited, though wish i came with a sleeve. anyone who got the other editions of Violet, would be able to upload images of the track credits?

i think we could still get it in march– she was still working on Violet in late June

i love how much lana singles out those sort of mundane moments of pleasure– reading a magazine in a walmart parking lot– as inspirational to her

for sure– one of her moodiest, most evocative songs, it just transports me every single time i hear it. lana is so good at conjuring rich emotional textures in general, but this song is one of the best examples of how fully she can conjure a world through sound. wish she'd perform it live more often– i love the way the string arrangement get translated through the guitar.

lol i love benito's lana drag

i whole heartedly agree w the Vice conversation about her poetry. i read a lot of contemporary poetry and lana's poem definitely call on the whitman/beat/confessional influences while also using lots of lana's idiosyncratic phrasings. it def fits in with a vein of current poetry that plays a lot with voice, affect, and emoji/text speak. if i were an editor i'd def cut some some lines but i think it's overall very cohesive, warm, and earnest, and her unique voice as a writer comes through really well.

my top 25 at the moment, in no particular order: Honeymoon TLY Art Deco Freak The Blackest Day Heroin Brooklyn Baby Sad Girl Money Power Glory Shades of Cool West Coast Old Money Hope is a Dangerous Thing... NFR FIILY The greatest Bartender HIAB Is This Happiness Angels Forever, Forever Angels LFL (demo) BPBP (demo) Wild on You I Talk to Jesus Bel Air

just picked up my copy! though i read the whole book yesterday (bought the ebook from an australian site). "thanks to the locals" is def my fav of the "new" (ie ones we hadn't heard or seen before) poems, really resonated with me. i love that they scanned in her typewritten manuscript, it's beautifully done book design-wise. and while we already knew most of the poems it was really nice to read them in her own formatting/line breaks– though i couldn't help but hear her voice in my head while reading the ones on the audiobook version! i love this project a lot– even the "cringey" lines (ie the end of "sugarfish") feel honest and sweet and very lana. can't wait for behind the iron gates and am so happy to finally have Violet...really hope there will be at least one more interview about it like the recent Vogue one. Would also be so cool if she did a reading/q & a online for the release (somehow i doubt this, esp bc she's prob getting ready to release chemtrails) and agree with what another user said about raffling off the hand-bound copies to raise $ for a charity.

Happiness is a Butterfly vs. Old Money

this is something my parents always say to me lol. "thanks to the locals" is heartbreaking! also that word we thought might be "sax" or "zack's" in LA.. is Saks (as in the dept store i think)

Cherry v. Freak