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Now that I can breathe again..... I don't even mind that it's delayed

slaying dragons by the sea. and then flying to the moon again

omg the PT acronym: Phish Tales

My thoughts on part II: Garlic is used for protection. After a little research I found that sapphires were worn for guidance. If I'm looking at the right thing, an axel-tree is just a rod that connects two wheels. I love the imagery I initially got of a huge tree with deeply bedded roots, but nothing is actually growing here. The carriage that the axletree was connected to can't move anymore. Real life can't move forward if you're always dreaming, and in your dreams there's no outside source for protection and guidance. The adrenaline that I got from the first several lines of part I rises to the surface, to the stars even. Eliot uses words like blood, artery, and circulation to describe where the thrill of dreaming is taking place. All of these are crucial for human life, and dreaming could be crucial too, mentally. It actually makes me think of the Lust for Life trailer where Lana is overlooking everything, but mentions that the still likes to go out into the muck and mires of the city. We were in autumn, but the axel is moving again and we've gone forward or backward to summer. I'm not sure if we're in the past or future, but I think the point is that it doesn't matter. We're in a point in time and a point doesn't have direction. It makes me feel like I really am floating with the stars in no particular direction, needs, or desires. I'm still a little confused by the end of Part II.

I'd be really interested in reading the essay if you ever find it again.

I love that @kraljicabenzinske started this and chose "Burnt Norton" as the first work. I've been meaning to read this for years! I feels ethereal, beautiful, mysterious, but also dangerous, just like Honeymoon. I think that's why Lana chose to include it. The rest of my collected thoughts as I was reading part I: I had to look up lotos. My takeaway is that it's a fruit that if eaten puts you in a pleasant dreamlike state. Again, it feels forbidden, but very tempting. Everything in reality was boring and ugly, but the sunlight came in giving hope. Maybe the lotos represent the hope and the ability to dream. Just like that the dream passed. Reality set in. I haven't read part II yet, but it feels like a set up to go deeper into the garden as a way to run from reality. The last line is a repetition, so maybe it's a reminder that dreams are just dreams. Time is a dimension just like what we think of as space and the physical world. I could go into the math of this. I'll spare everyone from that, but time is linear and this makes me think Eliot believes everything has already been decided and played out, so what's the point in dreaming? The single end point will always be there, lingering, no matter how hard you dream.

This part makes me think of Honeymoon a lot. It's an album that's overlooked. It's meant to be listened to with a purpose, but I think it takes effort to really appreciate Honeymoon, but when you do find it and take that time with it, it's beautiful.

These lines in particular makes my mind go crazy with different outcomes to situations that have happened and different possibilities of things that could happen. I could down down a rabbit hole for hours just from this.

The flowers kinda look like Hollyhocks.

Not this one. I woke up at 2:30 and was too excited to go back to sleep.

Does anyone else remember when Jack D posted a story in the spring from the pool at the Berkeley City Club? I know it's not a tunnel, but it kinda looks like a tunnel.

lol I would die. Myrtle Beach is basically my second home.

When this is all unreleased Lizzy songs.

This is actually exactly what I imagined when I thought about her covering Coconut.

For K, Pt. 2 vs Kill Kill

or a random fight or gif gate

Jack. (Either one)

The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics

Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground

This song, but really this entire album.

I have to be delulu for a minute and write about how the stars aligned and this album was released for me. My birthday is Oct 25. I take a medication she mentioned. NOTG was one of my favorite unreleased songs (or at least post-Lizzy unreleased). Even though I can agree it's not the best album as a whole, the musical style aligns nicely with various genres I'm interested in, so it's still somewhere in the top of my list. Right before we figured out Thunder was going to be on the album I had been to a memorial service for my finance's phD advisor. Apparently his motto was "Just do it". I had been going on a deep dive of RHCP, and the iconic scene from Arcadia with the stars in the background and the city on her chest is almost identical to a scene in the video for Under the Bridge. But mostly the fact that it's basically a birthday album

What kind of stuff do you like now? I usually look into my favorites' inspirations (as someone mentioned above), and typically that works out well. I also try some stuff in my usual genres on the new music friday playlists. Honestly, it's like a needle in a haystack using that method, but I have found some newer artists I really like that way.

Okay, here's my list. Most of these are also on my all time favorites list.

Jesus Christ by Brand New is one of my favorite songs ever

If you write anymore next time you’re high and bored I’d be interested to read them… but maybe as a blog post or status or message or something