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Cars, motorcycles, roads (freedom)

stripper… singer….trapeze artist…waitress…go-go dancer…gangsta… serial killer…married four times somehow in five countries… she’s had many occupations in her life. just take a look:

i feel like this is just the tip of the lana del rey job resume past work experience iceberg

I think, like so much else in her early career, it was just a fantasy she liked working into her art. The only traces of a secret, salacious go-go dancer past are in the music and her videos, in which case she was also secretly Jackie Kennedy and the Black Dahlia 

i'm sure i've seen this screenshot before or some iteration of it, the video underneath "lizzy grant, quelle avant-garde" is her performance of yayo with the rich whores
 
 
 
she actually performed once with him!
 
 

Brian was so right  I love reading those comments in her myspace, I just love how everyone saw Lizzy's potential

some old, rare facebook/twitter posts i found on tumblr
 

full description: Tour of the Park and Reeve Carney came to visit too Lana Del Rey
 
tags: Park, Trailer, Lizzy, Grant, Lana, Del, Rey

not entirely lana-related or anything too significant or crazy, but interesting nonetheless...
 
so, yesterday, i found myself curious about steven mertens' music, so i decided to search him on youtube, not much came up, one song called on ice which i didn't find too interesting honestly, and a music video for a song called no roof, now, if you watch the music video and listen to the lyrics (they're kind of hard to understand honestly ) it may seem familiar to you...
 
 
it features a girl wearing a wig walking around new york, the beach, and coney island, and not only that, but steven mertens sings the line lookin' like a calendar kitten which obviously she mentions in boarding school, now, you may look at the upload date (march 2nd, 2013) and assume it's a song he wrote about her, but if you look at the youtube channel which uploaded it, you'll see they also previously uploaded it on january 26, 2007, and i'm going to assume they didn't know each other yet, and even if they did, it was before she took on the coney island/new york/kitschy americana aesthetic around late 2007/early 2008, perhaps she took some inspiration from steven mertens' song and video because it's very lizzy-esque and this wasn't even her aesthetic at the time
 
 
you can also see the original 2007 upload on a screenshot of his old myspace
 

 
what led me to finding this in the first place was finding out (and realizing i was correct about) steven mertens was the guitarist at her october 22, 2009 show at canal room, by reading the information section on the thread about it in the early shows section
 
 
i'm actually really surprised to find out he still worked with lana past 2007, i suppose i always assumed they only really worked together in 2007 and never really did past that, but i suppose i was wrong and he played at her shows at the least... it really seems like the more i know, the less i know! steven mertens performing a song mentioning calendar kitten while an old song of his featuring a girl in a wig frolicking around coney island and the beach also mentions it... it's literally all connected...

The Damn You lyrics 

I've wanted Stevie Nicks to cover that song ever since I heard it. Just has her vibe idk

Angels Forever is country yup yup.. it will be on the album

I cannot emphasise enough on how much I need that song along with Hey Blue baby and Stupid for feeling so happy. 

just assuming the city

GIRL WIPE YOUR DAMN CAMERA

“Grinding”
 

This is why I would never want to be famous. I could not handle that 

I actually feel kinda bad for Lana. Imagine not being able to post anything, say anything, eat, sleep, shit, or breath without 10,000 posts saying you support genocide or you’re not doing enough for this or that. When she posted those pictures i’m sure the last thing on her mind was that people would be angry over her fucking Mcdonalds cup. I guess it just comes with being a celebrity. 

She’s so hot 

i love it this style of music/singing fits lana's voice so well

it's always such a strange (but beautiful) feeling when after years, a Lana song I have already listened to many many times and enjoyed without considering one of my favourites suddenly clicks and leaves me completely floored...   
 
 

Ohhhh 

American TV is so wild
A warning about Usher's music referencing "relationship issues" help

Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
 
The Nude Swim by Anne Sexton

I've always loved this one

Okay, great idea for a thread!
 
Tristia by Osip Mandelstam
 
 
 
Once The World Was Perfect by Joy Harjo
 
 
 
To Make A Prairie by Emily Dickinson