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okay so i've been up reading trying to figure out who Jim from UV is and i have read like the entire discussion of it on here and i could be wrong but i don't think anybody brought up the point that i wanted to make. so i just rewatched it to make sure, but in the 2008 Index Magazine interview she does very briefly talk about a Jim saying, "and i had some good friends, Bill and Jim who come and pick me up and drive me around if i *need a new* 7/11 to go explore". now i know Jim is a common name but if he is indeed a real person it would make sense that he is from the 2007-2008 timeline. i mean she finished a lot of the songs for UV in november 2013 i think it was and she was with Barrie 2011-2014 and then apparently dated a producer or whatever for about 7 years who people speculate is K. ik some believe Jimmy Gnecco but he says they didn't meet until 2014... but i do think she references multiple Jim's like Morrison and Jones. however, i don't think its who shes singing about directly because i think her cult leader line is a nod to Jones and how she felt about her own Jim. she was his follower and admirer and it's impossible to believe he really cared for her if he hurt her so much. just my thoughts if anyone has a better idea lmk but i also am really interested in the Jim Boch, what a story that would be! 

okay so i've been up reading trying to figure out who Jim from UV is and i have read like the entire discussion of it on here and i could be wrong but i don't think anybody brought up the point that i wanted to make. so i just rewatched it to make sure, but in the 2008 Index Magazine interview she does very briefly talk about a Jim saying, "and i had some good friends, Bill and Jim who come and pick me up and drive me around if i *need a new* 7/11 to go explore". now i know Jim is a common name but if he is indeed a real person it would make sense that he is from the 2007-2008 timeline. i mean she finished a lot of the songs for UV in november 2013 i think it was and she was with Barrie 2011-2014 and then apparently dated a producer or whatever for about 7 years who people speculate is K. ik some believe Jimmy Gnecco but he says they didn't meet until 2014... but i do think she references multiple Jim's like Morrison and Jones. however, i don't think its who shes singing about directly because i think her cult leader line is a nod to Jones and how she felt about her own Jim. she was his follower and admirer and it's impossible to believe he really cared for her if he hurt her so much. just my thoughts if anyone has a better idea lmk but i also am really interested in the Jim Boch, what a story that would be! 

The Bible, you nasty people.

As the man's name in this song is Jim, I think that this song is also a direct reference to the doomed lovers trapped in an abusive relationship in Lou Reed's 'Berlin' album. She did mention Lou Reed in Brooklyn Baby 

It's lemonade. So her tears burn. And taste good. And that's how Mike's Hard Lemonade is made

Thank you so much for finding this. Holy shit, this all makes so much sense with the AA.
 
So if it's really Pacific and not Atlantic, then what about Guns and Roses? 
"I can feel it coming in the air tonight, see you working on that blue Pacific"
 
Would that mean Ultraviolence and Guns and Roses are about the cult leader? But on the other hand, New York is on the side of the Atlantic so it doesn't make sense. I'm so confused. 
 
Lana, help us. We know you're sitting at your laptop, sipping your Pepsi Cola and laughing at us like   .

meaning: the usual suspects / stuff she's directly or indirectly mentioned in songs or interviews AND books whose themes relate to her persona / vibe / interests and thus we might like to read.
 
stuff she's mentioned one way or another : (surely incomplete, i'll keep editing this if people add others in the replies)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Paradise Lost - John Milton Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Burnt Norton - TS Eliot On The Road - Jack Kerouac Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Howl - Allen Ginsberg Victoria Holt - Road to Paradise Island Norman Rockwell (no specific book afaik) The Master Key System - Charles F. Haanel (@MoonAgain) The Bible (@HANGINGFROOT) Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (@Barry) The Satanic Witch - Anton LaVey Aleister Crowley (no specific book mentioned) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Nature (essay) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (this + the 3 above by @trayertrash) Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-77 - Allen Ginsberg Matcha - Jessica Flint & Anna Kavaliunas Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days - Jenna Rainey (this + 2 above @ ig post feb 19) Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (ig post march 19) Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories about the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Untie the Strong Woman: To Know and Honor Holy Mother - Clarissa Pinkola Estés (this + 2 above @ ig post july 2019) In The Nature Of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 - Henry-Russell Hitchcock Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - Richard Prum (@kristinaj this + 2 above @ ig posts september 2019) Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare - Tom Horn and Nita Horn (@AnarKissed) Surfing California - Bank Wright  
our Lana-related recs : (add a brief description)
The Girls - Emma Cline (coming of age story of a teen girl who joins a Manson-like cult in the 60s) Marlena - Julie Buntin (story of a toxic & dangerous friendship between 2 teen girls, marked by drug addiction and general recklessness) White Oleander - Janet Fitch (a very California book about a girl placed in several foster homes & her toxic, beautiful mother) Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (imo it's impossible Lana hasn't read this book; a series of seminal essays about 60s California by prob the most iconic Cali writer) Junky - William Burroughs (THE book about heroin addiction) Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (psychedelic noir set in 60s California about a stoner P.I. looking for a lost girl; also: watch the movie!!!) The Two Mrs. Greenvilles - Dominick Dunne (@kitschesque, "BTD era glamour") Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (@RainOverLondon, "teenage girl named cécile who lives a lavish and languorous lifestyle, spending the summer at her family’s french riviera villa with her father, raymond, and his mistress, elsa; call me by your name meets gossip girl") Lithium For Medea - Kate Braverman (a story of addiction, of complicated mother/daughter relationships & toxic romances set in Venice, LA)

she looks hot and serving honeymoon era vibes but that cover ain't it